Introduction
According to (Frontline) juveniles offences increased from 1985 to 2005 by 128 percent and later declined in 2013 by 39 percent. In 2013 the United Stated court handles around 1.1 million juvenile case in that involved charges with the violation on the law such as robbery and arson. The purpose of the study is to better understand how and why many of these teens become gangs and drug related.
Statement problem
The major problem of the research study is further understanding a connection with juvenile and their childhood. Looking and understanding the situation that many of this juvenile are involved can be disturbing because an individual is able to see how these kids can end up in their future. Factor such as a child abuse or
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There are two courts one for juveniles and the other one for adults, depending on the crime committed by the juveniles, the juveniles can be waive to an adult court and be change as an adult as well. According to “Juveniles Law Center,” the first juvenile court was stablished in 1899 in Illinois. Back then the juveniles court use to be very informal, the judge will talk to the kid and give him or her supervision or guidance. The case of in re Gault in 1967, the case determine that the constitution require for juveniles to have the same rights as an adult would in the court such as confronting a witness against them and the right to an attorney. The main goal for the juvenile system is to rehabilitate. But with some exception for example New Jersey, the youth from 7-14 years of age are not to be charge as an adult because is believed that the child does not have the mental capacity to commit a crime. Another advantage that juveniles have is that their trial is confidential to prevent them from carrying the burden of a crime into their early adult hood. The juvenile records are seal after they turn 18 years old, so no one can view it, with exception of the military and …show more content…
This individual was able to talk to the gangs member and drugs dealers that were also involved in the gangs. The study was done in a low income community, where some of these kids did not feel like they had a choice, did not feel safe in the community and other did not feel love at home. Reaching out to these juveniles that are in gangs and drugs can be an intimidating process and sometimes hard because these kids just do not talk to everyone specially a random person that is studying them. Some of the youth became drug dealer and gang related because it give them the ability to gain money, since they need it some of them do not care, the scary part of this documentary is that the youth know they can get kill or end up in prison and they seem not to care much. The kids that became gangs related did not feel loved at home, their parent did not care or their parents left them. The youth that became gangs member feel like they did not have a family and they wanted a family environment, which was the case of most of the juvenile that where interview. In order to become a gang member some of the requirement where to get badly beaten by their own gang member to proof not only your “love” but also to show how though she or he is. Other gangs the young need to kill a person to become part of them. After they pass the “test” the youth abuses drug and alcohol and sometimes even sell it. They are
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Recently, there has been a rise in criminal activity amongst the youth in Columbus Georgia. The percentage of juvenile criminals increased by almost 9.5% in the year 2012-2013(Chattahoochee Valley Struggles with Black on Black Crime). Many of the crimes committed involved adolescents as young as fifteen, and have become increasingly more violent. In 2012 a sixteen year old woman was shot and killed by her eighteen year old boyfriend, a few months later a nineteen year old boy was shot while walking to his home. (Chattahoochee Valley Struggles with Black on Black Crime). Due to the overwhelmin...
Jenson, Jeffrey and Howard, Matthew. "Youth Crime, Public Policy, and Practice in the Juvenile Justice System: Recent Trends and Needed Reforms." Social Work 43 (1998): 324-32
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Crime rates across the U.S. for juveniles is at all time high. Juveniles across all demographic have been punished more severely than those of the past. Contributing factors including lower socioeconomic areas such as the Detroit Metropolitan Areas & Chicago. This paper will discuss the apparent issue within the system focusing on juveniles in urban areas.
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The United States has been affected by a number of crimes committed by juveniles. The juvenile crime rate has been increasing in recent years. Everyday more juveniles commit crimes for various reasons. They act as adults when they are not officially adults. There is a discussion about how juveniles should be punished if they commit heinous crimes. While many argue that juveniles who commit serious crimes, such as murder, should be treated as adults, the fact is, juveniles under the age of eighteen, are not adults, and should not be treated as such.
The juvenile system was first established in the United States around 1899 when Illinois had their first court appearance including a juvenile. This then led to the Nation’s first juvenile system being created, which was for youth under the age of eighteen who have been convicted of crimes. Up until then, most youth were tried as an adult until the system was put into place. The system has different sections in which they youth is taken in such as: intake, adjudication, disposition, and post adjudicatory.
Due to the increased recognized differences between adults and juveniles in terms of needs and developmental capabilities, offender’s treatment differ depending on whether they are treated in an adult or juvenile court. In the adult court jurisdiction, public safety and retribution are the most salient tenets while in the juvenile courts the best the intentions are intended towards the best interest of the child focusing on rehabilitation. The best goals and objectives of the juvenile court sanctions aim at ensuring that the youth in trial at the juvenile court desists from delinquent behavior and thus easy to be reintegrated in the society once more. This fact is mainly achieved through offering the youth individualized case management programs
In juvenile court, the judge must decide if the teen gets tried as an adult or minor. If the juvenile gets sent to a juvenile detention center for murder they will live their lives there until they are twenty one, but if tried as an adult they will serve so many years in prison. There is a grey area of law for certain teens that commit serious crimes. In this case of the grey law, each state gets to decide upon the particular state how they person is tried. For most cases pertaining to the juvenile courts are case by case bases. Many believe that it isn’t fair for the teens to be locked up with adults. The U.S. House of Representatives made the Juvenile Justice Act encouraging states to find alternatives to having the teens go through such a process with people much older than themselves (Locked Up…).
A primary shaper of the juvenile and their actions is the environment in which they grow up in. Family environment has the potential to have a major effect on the outcome and behaviors of the juvenile (Myers 430). Family has such a huge effect because it is the earliest source of interaction the juvenile experiences. According to Louise Gerdes, “72 percent of jailed juveniles
These issues are of utmost importance, gang membership does not only present an issue on an individual level, but on a societal level as well. Gangs are well-known for their proclivity for violence, even to those who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Youth gang crime is no longer limited to big cities; these problems have now spread beyond those boundaries into suburbs, small cities, and even rural areas (Spergel & Grossman, 1997). These organizations put us all at risk, and are a threat to public safety. Furthermore, these groups put our youth at risk and threaten to destroy their