The Juvenile Court Act and Juvenile Justice Procedures – Midterm Essays [NAME] [CLASS-SECTION] – Juvenile Delinquency Professor [NAME] JUVENILE RIGHTS There have been many significant rulings made by the Supreme Court involving juvenile rights in the juvenile court system which attempt to balance parens patriae and juvenile rights. The cases involving Morris Kent‚ Jr.‚ Gerald Gault‚ Samuel Winshhip‚ and McKeiver stand out as most significant in the effort to strike this delicate balance. The 1961
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Juvenile Justice has been a prominent controversy in present day society. We can observe how the majority of crimes committed are being perpetrated by adolescents. The disputation arises on whether the Supreme Court justice should abolish mandatory life in prison for pubescents who commit the immorality of murder or authorize the punishment with parole. Although many can challenge this contrary issue‚ I concur with ideology of the Supreme Court ruling that juveniles who engage in murder could
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Juveniles’ Justice There are times we hear of young children committing crimes. Crimes those are punishable by either life sentences or death row. Over the course of time society has been more compelled to find out why the child has acted out in such a malicious way. But before new psychological studies we have in our system children who have spent their life in prison over a bad choice or something that they could not control. Preceding the suggestion of juvenile-justice advocates the Supreme Court
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Juvenile justice has been a completely controversial topic that has been talked about for ages. We asked ourselves if it’s righteous of us to send juveniles to jail for their crimes but all we get in return is a big question mark. Should we punish these teens for their crime or should we figure out a solution to help? We need to do something because sending them to jail is not going to help anyone. We are basically sending them to their death. We need to refine the court system and help these
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Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections Lanika Alexander CJA/374 November 12‚ 2012 Deatrice Haney Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections When I first got picked up I was really scared but I knew what I had done was wrong. I had been breaking into houses for a while now. Always in and out real quick and I always picked the houses where I knew the owners were at work because they all lived on the same street as me so I knew their schedules as well as I knew my own. But this time it
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Davina Fisher Juvenile Justice System 20th Century Professor Deborah White Strayer University 6 April 2012 Juvenile Justice System 20th Century The first juvenile court in this country was established in Cook County‚ Illinois‚ in 1899. Illinois passed the Juvenile Court Act of 1899‚ which established the Nation ’s first juvenile court. The British doctrine of parens patriae (the State as parent) was the rationale for the right of the State to intervene in the lives of children in a manner
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community justice models; involvement‚ partnership‚ mobilization and intermediary model. I expanded on the neighborhood watch since it is a perfect example of the mobilization model. In addition‚ I vouched for the involvement model as being the most effective approach to community justice strategies. In community justice several approaches have been made in order to help members of the community and the justice systems develop a critical understanding of some of the variation in community justice activity
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Juvenile Justice: Intervention versus Incarceration Lisa Whipple Professor Sinclair-Appelt English Composition II May 1‚ 2012 Abstract The national trend towards getting tough on juvenile crime by altering the juvenile justice system to more closely mirror the adult system was examined in order to determine whether secure confinement of juvenile offenders is as effective as community-based rehabilitative and treatment programs for these youth. Politicians and public perceptions
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Club of Henderson County and the D.A.R.E. Program of Henderson County. I decided to write about local programs because it would give me the opportunity to learn more about juvenile delinquency prevention programs within my own community. Both programs are a huge staple within Henderson County and are two of the most important juvenile delinquency prevention programs within Henderson County. First I will report about the local Boys and Girls Club within Henderson County. On November 1st 1993 The Boys
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nterest in restorative justice has been growing since the early 1990s. In many countries‚ programs‚ studies and discussion groups on the subject have proliferated. The failure of the punitive justice model‚ excessive use of incarceration and the alienation of victims and lack of response to their needs have generated support for this new way of thinking (Roach‚ 2000; Law Commission of Canada‚ 2003; Hudson‚ 2003). In Canada‚ the emergence of the restorative justice model can also be attributed to
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