Juvenile Prison Is the Best Way of Reforming

The Juvenile System has been around for a long time. The primary reason behind separating Juvenile from adult criminals is quite simple; the judicial system believes that the children are less culpable for their irresponsive behavior and they could easily be reformed as compared to adult offenders. The crucial role of the judicial system is to critically investigate, diagnose, and recommend treatments for the Juveniles rather than accrediting them. However, because of the increasing number of juvenile arrest for crimes committed by persons considered as a child, the attention that the given to a crime involving juveniles, the decreasing trust to the juvenile system itself and the lauder roar of the society for a safer place to live in, the juvenile justice system began to change. A transition from the classic objective of reform brought by juvenile justice system to a more tough policy that focus more on public safety and on idea of punishment to juvenile offenders came to effect.

The trend is to be more amenable to the “get-tough” principle, allowing a juvenile to be prosecuted and tried as an adult in criminal court. The most basic reason for allowing this shift is for public safety and deterrent of crimes involving juveniles. The arguments provide that there is a need to incapacitate these juveniles for some period of time in order for them to realize the seriousness of the offense that they committed and the adult criminal court system is the closest way of achieving this goal. The advocates of the transfer of the juveniles to adult court believe that since the same crime was committed, the same act was done, thus, there is a need to impose the same harsh punishment. In this way, the advocates of this shift believe that...

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...treatments which they needed. It cannot in any way be done through adult courts as this will only make the situation of the juvenile to an even worst.

References

Candace Zierdt, (1999). The Little Engine that Arrived at the Wrong Station: How to Get Juvenile Justice Back on the Right Track, 33 U.S.F. L. Rev. 401, 405.

Janet Ainsworth, (1995). Youth Justice in a Unified Court: Response to Critics of Juvenile Court Abolition, 36 B.C. L. Rev. 927, 933–34.

Donna Bishop, (2000). “Juvenile Offenders in the Adult Criminal Justice System,” 27 Crime and Justice 81.

Abbe Smith, (1995). They Dream of Growing Older: On Kids & Crime, 36 B.C. L. Rev. 953, 1009–10.

Bishop, Donna and Frazier, Charles, et al., (1996). “The Transfer of Juveniles to Criminal Court: Does It Make a Difference?” 42(2) Crime and Delinquency 171 (1996)