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Criminal Justice and Juvenile Rehabilitation

            As of this moment there are many juveniles being sentenced to detention facilities as harsh punishments. The juveniles that are sent to these detention centers are mostly first time crime committers so they should be given the chance of rehabilitation. There might be some mistakes in which the juvenile was following their friends because of peer pressure and have been arrested without the consequences of the crime. Many situations come where the juvenile justice system should consider community based treatment like rehabilitation for the juveniles but instead the justice system would just incarcerate the juvenile. Rehabilitation should be the focus of the juvenile justice system and not just throwing kids in jails. The juvenile justice system needs to focus more on rehabilitation because it will lessen the time juveniles spend incarcerated. This will allow for more time to address the problems that made the juveniles become delinquents in the first place. The juvenile justice system was first set in place to provide rehabilitation for the juveniles seeing that there were more issues other than them just being a bad apple. Juvenile courts were designed to be flexible, informal, and they were also focusing on the rehabilitation of the delinquents. The intent of juvenile justice is that children should be treated differently from adults with less punishment because their brain and morality is not fully developed.
             The juvenile justice system has shifted from what actually needs to be done, which is to help the juveniles to understand the reasons that they are becoming delinquents or are in criminal activities. The juvenile justice system was first created to reform the youth by helping them see what is causing their problematic behavior. Through the years society has loss patience with the youth and has decided that to punish them for their defiant behavior by incarcerating them and not letting them see the sunlight.


Essays Related to Criminal Justice and Juvenile Rehabilitation

1. The Juvenile Justice System

This paper examines juvenile and criminal justice policies and practices with respect to young offenders who cross over from the juvenile to the criminal justice system. ... The juvenile and criminal justice systems in the United States have experienced a tumultuous period over the past half century. ... Large numbers of juvenile offenders were removed from the juvenile justice system and placed in the criminal justice system. ... Both the juvenile and criminal justice systems are returning to an emphasis on rehabilitation and evidence-based practices. ... By the end of the 1990s, all states h...

  • Word Count: 2448
  • Approx Pages: 10
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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. Ethical Analysis of Juvenile Waivers

When the Juvenile Justice System was created in the nineteenth century the idea was to create a place where children were still punished for criminality, yet would not be subject to the harshness of being in the adult criminal courts. ... It is a serious undertaking to waive a juvenile up to criminal court. ... All things considered, are such sanctions necessary given the ˜best interest of the child' parens patriae philosophy of the juvenile justice system?' ... Even experts within the juvenile justice system oppose the waiver "because it clashes with the rehabilitative ideal....

  • Word Count: 3373
  • Approx Pages: 13
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

3. Rehabilitation

Personal experience Rehabilitation When I started pursuing my college degree, I knew I wanted to work in the Criminal Justice field. ... First is juvenile rehabilitation. ... Juvenile boot camps were opened due to an increase in juvenile crime, which overloaded the juvenile justice system. ... They found that for every dollar spent on chemical dependency treatment, seven dollars are saved in criminal justice system costs (CREST Outreach Center). ... I would think that with a Criminal Justice degree and twenty years in the Navy, I would be qualified for that job (McElroy). ...

  • Word Count: 983
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

4. California and the Juvenile Crime Initiative

According to U.S Department of Justice (1994-1996), several states have, or will be, revamping their juvenile justice system to better address juvenile crime issues. ... Department of Justice, 1994-1996). ... Department of Justice, 1994-1996). ... Department of Justice, 1994-1996). ... It appears that the courts that sent them there believe that they are hardened criminals, beyond rehabilitation--even though not one of them has reached the age of maturity. ...

  • Word Count: 2063
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

5. When Juveniles Are Charged as Adults

As citizens of the United States, we are taught that the criminal justice system was created to ensure justice for crimes committed and for the protection of our communities. ... As Americans we are not educated on the juvenile justice system, or how juvenile delinquents are processed. The current criminal justice system that is used in the United States allows juvenile offenders to be convicted, tried and sentenced as adults for certain crimes. ... Juvenile courts were created with the main idea of rehabilitation. ... This plays a very important role in the juvenile criminal justice system ...

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  • Approx Pages: 5
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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. Juvenile Justice

Is our juvenile justice system just? ... It is not just to put a juvenile in a prison full of adult criminals. ... Juveniles are sent to a place full of more crime and learn from adults how to be criminals. ... Juveniles can be rehabilitated and society should not give up so easily. ... The place for my taxes would be to build better rehabilitation facilities for youth criminals. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

7. Juvenile Violence

"Juvenile Violence" By Gloria Hicks The concept of juvenile justice first emerged in England during the middle ages. ... Since the seventeenth century the American Juvenile Justice history can be divided into five periods. ... It still remains less formal and its intentions are to rehabilitate, but keep juveniles in the community. ... In the Juvenile justice processes they are given three different options of rehabilitation community services, parents, or detention before actually serving jail time, whereas in the adult court first time felons are lucky to receive time and probati...

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  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

8. Juveniles Given Adult Sentences

The American institution has encountered numerous issues within its criminal justice system since its establishment in the U.S. The American juvenile justice system does not offer fair judgment when sentencing juvenile offenders to life sentences without parole. ... The primary focus of the juvenile justice system was to rehabilitate young adolescents and help them to grow as individuals to straighten out their life. ... Moreover, the juvenile justice system should be looked upon as an initial start to rehabilitate young adolescents rather than waive them to a criminal court and not take into ...

  • Word Count: 1701
  • Approx Pages: 7
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

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