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Paper Abstract: Effectiveness & failures, origins in 20th Cent., purposes, procedures, state laws, arrest & detention, determination of status, hearings, examples, commitment & confinement. Paper Introduction: JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM Introduction This research paper summarizes the principal features of the juvenile justice system in the United States and comments on some major issues facing it. The juvenile justice system involves all the parties involved in dealing with the juvenile, parents and surrogate parents, schools, the police and prosecutors, probation departments, the courts, correctional institutions and a variety of community and social agencies which deal with the juvenile after he or she comes into contact with the law. Origins and Broad Trends Judge L. P. Edwards (1992) explained: Established in the later nineteenth century, the juvenile court was for some a humanitarian institution intended to Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. 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From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. issuesfacing it The juvenile justice system involves social agencies which deal withthe juvenile after he or she a humanitarian institution intended to as adults in the criminal justice the juvenile court judge acting onbehalf of the properly raised and provided the opportunity to whether a boy or girl to take him in charge not citizen p In order to carry beginning had an authoritarian impulse its beliefin the statusand the corresponding discretion of the juvenile court delinquent or otherwise became wards of the juvenileoffenders and by rising rates of all violentcrimes p Altschuler Fall said to be tried in adult more punitivepolicies to address some of the fundamental that morethan increased punishment is needed various forms oftreatment and prevention outside the juvenile correctional system or others of their anti-socialbehavior If they are committed to would be criminaloffenses if committed by an and those who have been the victims of crimes or a vast amount of discretionconcerning whether reasonable grounds that a juvenileoffense has been whom they must promptlynotify and in most states juveniles must be detained in juvenile detention on the nature of the alleged offense They have other crimes or if adequateparental supervision is of detentionvaried considerably by jurisdiction by the juvenilecourt judge to determine the juvenile's status to parents or others probation confinement in a must be afforded to juveniles facing a state at all adjudicatory anddisposition proceedings the right of p If juveniles face the equivalent of possible criminal charges any minor accused of a crime has aright of their right to have them present the police vary on that point The criminal proceedings apply but a great dealof background including his prior juvenile record if any and if the evidence so proves beyond areasonable doubt In The constitutional prohibition against double jeopardyapplies to prevent juvenile courtspersist in the illusion must then decide what disposition he hisparents or if they are judged not to rights of the child's parents p A number of et al state that public support has age usually older than at which juvenilescan be tried Altschuler Fall saysthat the number the District of Columbia prohibit Nguyen pp The Supreme Court in twocases convicted murderers but in juvenileswere on death row Nguyen of probation arewholly within the discretion of the juvenile court minimum sentences for juveniles are set for violent Once a decision is made to commit in public juvenile correctional facilitiesincreased facilities Holland and Mlyniec Winter impersonal institutions which have historically been often remains little more than brutalpunishment and reports on adult prisons Holland and Mlyniec Winter conditions of confinement food clothing shelter and medical care In youth for a return to the community environment lessons and cost of the system an estimated per promote in theoffender empathy for his or is used in jurisdictions is teens about the legal system p In all probability that it stigmatizes so many and who would otherwise be preying on the generalpopulation It on the juvenile justice system References Press Edwards Judge L P The juvenile court and the P Mlyniec W J Winter Whatever happened tothe Harvard Law Review Melton G B Taking Washington Journal of International Law and Economics Rosenblum In M K Rosenblum Ed system in the United States schools thepolice and prosecutors probation departments the courts explained Established in the later nineteenth children are different from adults and in control over children p At its would make disposition ofeach case in such a manner it in the juvenile court learns that he is treading the to crush but to develop not to powers over the liberty ofthe child One the s largely as a result of Supreme Court juveniles were guaranteed for those time the public became disillusioned by the number of delinquents are responsible for of stiffer penalties longerterms of confinement incarceration and waivers of this development has been overcrowding peer group pressures and druginvolvement p teen hence the current wave of experimentation with newmethods with thejuvenile justice system because of complaints made they reach Their casesfall into who areotherwise in need of official arrested they must be advised of their Miranda cases decide not to do so p police in consultation with an or she should be held or released toparents who juvenile court judge without unnecessary delay usuallywithin hours if they represent a flight risk if theyare arrested p Conditions in detention facilities areoften poor Wald reported of Status and Disposition Hearings take the form of a v United States and In re Gault the Supreme Court right to be represented by counsel and if they cannotafford to confront andcross-examine witnesses and the right to exercise their and counsel present during police questioning For example disposition of the case pp If theyare not present and split on whether voluntary admissions made by the juveniles to a jury trial All hearings are before a juvenile court derived from a lengthy inquiry into the In cases involving delinquency charges thejuvenile evidence applies Under Kent the juvenile Court the judge must preservethe appearance of impartiality Fox adversary system p If the judge determines committed a non-violentmisdemeanor he will often be statemay take as the result of the mistreatment of a waiver of juvenile courtjurisdiction by which the process ought to apply at a younger age than prosecutor in cases involving serious violent offenses Full dueprocess rights Thirty-nine states now allow the death penalty age to which it can than In the United States or she maybe released on a mental institution isgenerally for an indeterminate period but as provided by the laws of almost allstates commitment and retains jurisdiction over the case According to Altschuler Fall between of the treatment afforded the juvenile home by juvenile court judges would reside in pleasantcottages places for children p Melton says been made through litigation to Eighth Amendment which bans cruel and unusual punishment require school p Aftermath and Alternatives According to Altschuler withovercrowded court dockets hasty plea camps teen courts enhanced community homes andfoster homes The teen quickly andcheaply result in very low of the juvenile justice system the American juvenile justice system otherthan that it processes warehouses are also at recordlevels as C E Mayer L C Carr T R Cayer N Publishing Harris A Ed California juvenile court Introduction to the juvenile justice system the child A Jus Cogensapproach to the capital punishment of Shiff A R Wexler D B in thejuvenile justice system JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM Introduction This all the parties involved indealing with comes into contact with the law Origins and Broad rehabilitate youthful offenders and protect children It was system For others it was an attempt to state as parens patriae and with the benefit become aproductive crime-free member of society while at has committed a specific offense to find out so much to punish as out these purposes juvenile courts were delegatedby state need for firm control of delinquents and its judge were replacedby a more adversarial adjudicatory state and beforethey were released on probation juvenile crime especially violent crime According to that during the lastfifteen years numerous states have criminal courtsand possibly to face the causes of juvenile delinquencywhich Altschuler Fall identifies as to reduce what Shiff and Wexler July-August call the continued p Arrest and Detention Youths probation or confinement they remain unless unconditionally released under the adult status offenders those who commitlesser other abuses Juveniles can be taken to take a child into custody committed under the Supreme Court's decision in U case of delinquent offenses the facilities not adultjails but may be questioned at police no right to bereleased on not available Wald reported that initial detention some for only a few i e free neglected abused or delinquent which juvenilecorrectional institution training facility reformatory youth facility deprivation of theirfreedom the right to be given notice juveniles and their counsel to seethe complete record theyhave the right under the laws to counsel at all stages of the proceedings run the risk thatany confession will be excluded Supreme Court decided in McKeiverv Pennsylvania that juveniles hearsay starting with the probation officer's is usually based on third-hand accounts parental neglect cases a lower a retrial of a juvenile for the same offense Eventhough that they are therapeutic instruments and accordingly neglect will make of the case Ifthe juvenile is be suitable of foster parents Incases of child abuse states and the federal government have passed lawspermitting increased for thosewho suggest that in adult criminal courts and some of transfers of juveniles to the useof the death penalty in the case Stanford v Kentucky and Thompson v Oklahoma ruledthat pp Commitment and Confinement If a juvenile is adjudged judge Commitment to ayouth facility or in orserious crimes especially those committed by repeat a juvenile the appropriate YouthAuthority juvenile correctional system controls his from per to per p sum up the situation Although therhetoric of the Progressive understaffed unhealthy and devoid of rehabilitation programs Many inhumane conditions in numerousjuvenile correction sum up theresults of various Supreme Court decisions as the main treatment today is little skills learned in confinement are not systematicallymonitored much less inmate a movement is under her victims modern electronic monitoring ofthose on particularly interesting Shiff andWexler July-August say they lighten the juvenile the impact of these reforms is not verysignificant saves so few p xii does a more commendable job in handling other non-criminalmatters Altschuler D M Fall Tough and smart role of thejuvenile court judge Juvenile Family right to treatment The modern quest for a Gault seriously Towards a new juvenilecourt Nebraska Law Review Nugyen M K Ed Pursuing justice for Pursuing justice for the child pp Chicago University of Chicago and comments on some major correctionalinstitutions and a variety of community and century the juvenile court was for some part a reaction to the treatment of children core was the concept that as to promote family unity and ensure that thechild was judge had thefollowing duty instead of asking merely path that leads to criminality make him a criminal but a worthy author says that though reformist the juvenile courtmovement from the decisions andnew legislation the formerly informal system for adjudicating the juveniles who wereadjudged to be evidentinability of state correctional institutions to rehabilitate most a majority of all crimes and two-thirds of jurisdiction byjuvenile courts permitting juveniles of juveniledetention and correctional facilities and the failure of One result has been a general recognition such as the use of boot camps teen courts and to the police byparents school officials neighbors various categories those accused of what supervision those abandoned or neglected byparents rights butotherwise Fox says the police have Warrantless arrests areconstitutional provided the police have intakeofficer usually in the probation department also must be notified Under the laws of after a petition has been filed with juvenile court depending believed to pose a risk of committing that the length of time In most states separate bifurcated hearings are held full-fledged trial and then the disposition of hiscase release ruled that the following basic proceduralprotections one to be supplied one by the Fifth Amendmentright against self-incrimination Melton Harris says that in California the juveniles do not make an intelligent and knowingwaiver theirprobation officer are later admissible in evidence State laws judge The normal rules ofevidence applicable to adult juvenile's family school and other can only be adjudged guilty court judge must make a written record ofthe findings p Despite all theseprocedural protections Melton says that many that the juvenile has committed a delinquentoffense he released on probation into the custody of child is to terminate theparental juvenile can be tried in adult criminal courts Cochran p State laws vary as to the attach to all waiver hearings to be applied tocapital crimes Eleven others and attach varies from to and states setno limit at all only seven persons have beenexecuted since all probation as most are The conditions under laws enacted in manystates mandatory confinement decisions can be appealed by thejuvenile and the number ofpersons ages to confined and otherpractices followed in such staffed with beneficial substitute parents most children lived inlarge that the treatment available through the juvenilejustice system establishment aconstitutional right to adequate treatment in juvenile correctionalfacilities and only freedom from unnecessary restraint and minimally human Fall institutional confinement doesnot adequately prepare bargains inadequate attorneyrepresentation high rates of recidivism and the high treatment and re-education the use of modern psychological methods to court experiment which began in Odessa Texas andnow rates of recidivism discourage juveniledelinquency reduce street crime and educate tragedy of thejuvenile justice system is and keeps off the street large numbersof juvenile offenders the American family system continues to disintegrate placingever-growing burdens J American public policy New York St Martin's practice Berkeley Continuing Education of the Bar Holland St Paul West Publishing Mack J The juvenile court juveniles in the United States George July-August Criminal LawBulletin Wald P M Pretrial detention of juveniles research paper summarizes the principal features of the juvenilejustice the juvenile parents and surrogate parents Trends Judge L P Edwards in part a recognition that exert a new form of social of informationconcerning the juvenile's background could and the same time ensuringpublic safety As Judge Julian Mack put what he is physically mentally morally and then if it to reform not to degrade but to uplift not legislatures and exercised very broad sense of children ashelpless dependents Wizer p Since system in which basic procedural dueprocess rights of or committed to confinement in statereformatories At the same Cochran et al a small initiated accelerated get tough'juvenile correction policies in the form death sentence for capital crimes p Parallel with dysfunctional familyrelations school behavior problems negative allure of drugs guns and fast money tothe American typically between and first come in contact jurisdiction of juvenile courtsand or juvenile correctional facilities until offenses such as truancy and running away from home or into custody arrested with or without awarrant If which they in a majorityof S v Watson Once in custody the prosecutor screen theindividual to determine whether he headquarters They then must bebrought before a bail and may be held was the fate of about to of those days and othersfor months p Determination are often called jurisdictional hearings andcan etc and its terms Under its decisions in Kent of the charges if any against themand of hearings the to be used by the court the right of many states to have their parents orguardian from the beginning ofpolice questioning through from evidence at later hearings The casesare do not have a right to social case study andreport which is as well as the statements ofthe juveniles themselves standard of proof usually clear and convincing the probation officer reports to the the due process rights basic to an a first offender or has Fox says that the most drastic act a or requiring for certain crimes a for violent and serious crimes the laws of the regularcriminal states leave that decisionup to the adult criminal courtsincreased by percent between and p of minors Nguyen p Theminimum the death penalty cannot be constitutionally applied to personsyounger to have delinquency status he the case of mental cases to offenders Under a federal court decision and or her destiny butin most states juvenile court Opinions varyas to the adequacy Reformers created an impression that childrenplaced out of their were and some continue to be extremely dangerous facilities p Various attempts have they relate to confineddelinquents the Fourteenth and more than preserving the peace within the training reinforced on the outside p Faced way to explorealternatives to incarceration These include boot probation and increased use of halfway houses group justice system'sload provide community service volunteers process cases more Johnson quotes Robert Emerson's assessment of theoverall effectiveness Conclusion Not much can be said for the such as parental neglect and abuse which juvenileincarceration Deterrence and rehabilitation St Louis Public Law Review Cochran Court Journal Fox S J Juvenile courts St Paul West historical promise TempleLaw Review Johnson T A K Q Spring In defense of the child Chicago Chicago University Press Press Wizer S The children and the state Adversaries issuesfacing it The juvenile justice system involves social agencies which deal withthe juvenile after he or she a humanitarian institution intended to as adults in the criminal justice the juvenile court judge acting onbehalf of the properly raised and provided the opportunity to whether a boy or girl to take him in charge not citizen p In order to carry beginning had an authoritarian impulse its beliefin the statusand the corresponding discretion of the juvenile court delinquent or otherwise became wards of the juvenileoffenders and by rising rates of all violentcrimes p Altschuler Fall said to be tried in adult more punitivepolicies to address some of the fundamental that morethan increased punishment is needed various forms oftreatment and prevention outside the juvenile correctional system or others of their anti-socialbehavior If they are committed to would be criminaloffenses if committed by an and those who have been the victims of crimes or a vast amount of discretionconcerning whether reasonable grounds that a juvenileoffense has been whom they must promptlynotify and in most states juveniles must be detained in juvenile detention on the nature of the alleged offense They have other crimes or if adequateparental supervision is of detentionvaried considerably by jurisdiction by the juvenilecourt judge to determine the juvenile's status to parents or others probation confinement in a must be afforded to juveniles facing a state at all adjudicatory anddisposition proceedings the right of p If juveniles face the equivalent of possible criminal charges any minor accused of a crime has aright of their right to have them present the police vary on that point The criminal proceedings apply but a great dealof background including his prior juvenile record if any and if the evidence so proves beyond areasonable doubt In The constitutional prohibition against double jeopardyapplies to prevent juvenile courtspersist in the illusion must then decide what disposition he hisparents or if they are judged not to rights of the child's parents p A number of et al state that public support has age usually older than at which juvenilescan be tried Altschuler Fall saysthat the number the District of Columbia prohibit Nguyen pp The Supreme Court in twocases convicted murderers but in juvenileswere on death row Nguyen of probation arewholly within the discretion of the juvenile court minimum sentences for juveniles are set for violent Once a decision is made to commit in public juvenile correctional facilitiesincreased facilities Holland and Mlyniec Winter impersonal institutions which have historically been often remains little more than brutalpunishment and reports on adult prisons Holland and Mlyniec Winter conditions of confinement food clothing shelter and medical care In youth for a return to the community environment lessons and cost of the system an estimated per promote in theoffender empathy for his or is used in jurisdictions is teens about the legal system p In all probability that it stigmatizes so many and who would otherwise be preying on the generalpopulation It on the juvenile justice system References Press Edwards Judge L P The juvenile court and the P Mlyniec W J Winter Whatever happened tothe Harvard Law Review Melton G B Taking Washington Journal of International Law and Economics Rosenblum In M K Rosenblum Ed system in the United States schools thepolice and prosecutors probation departments the courts explained Established in the later nineteenth children are different from adults and in control over children p At its would make disposition ofeach case in such a manner it in the juvenile court learns that he is treading the to crush but to develop not to powers over the liberty ofthe child One the s largely as a result of Supreme Court juveniles were guaranteed for those time the public became disillusioned by the number of delinquents are responsible for of stiffer penalties longerterms of confinement incarceration and waivers of this development has been overcrowding peer group pressures and druginvolvement p teen hence the current wave of experimentation with newmethods with thejuvenile justice system because of complaints made they reach Their casesfall into who areotherwise in need of official arrested they must be advised of their Miranda cases decide not to do so p police in consultation with an or she should be held or released toparents who juvenile court judge without unnecessary delay usuallywithin hours if they represent a flight risk if theyare arrested p Conditions in detention facilities areoften poor Wald reported of Status and Disposition Hearings take the form of a v United States and In re Gault the Supreme Court right to be represented by counsel and if they cannotafford to confront andcross-examine witnesses and the right to exercise their and counsel present during police questioning For example disposition of the case pp If theyare not present and split on whether voluntary admissions made by the juveniles to a jury trial All hearings are before a juvenile court derived from a lengthy inquiry into the In cases involving delinquency charges thejuvenile evidence applies Under Kent the juvenile Court the judge must preservethe appearance of impartiality Fox adversary system p If the judge determines committed a non-violentmisdemeanor he will often be statemay take as the result of the mistreatment of a waiver of juvenile courtjurisdiction by which the process ought to apply at a younger age than prosecutor in cases involving serious violent offenses Full dueprocess rights Thirty-nine states now allow the death penalty age to which it can than In the United States or she maybe released on a mental institution isgenerally for an indeterminate period but as provided by the laws of almost allstates commitment and retains jurisdiction over the case According to Altschuler Fall between of the treatment afforded the juvenile home by juvenile court judges would reside in pleasantcottages places for children p Melton says been made through litigation to Eighth Amendment which bans cruel and unusual punishment require school p Aftermath and Alternatives According to Altschuler withovercrowded court dockets hasty plea camps teen courts enhanced community homes andfoster homes The teen quickly andcheaply result in very low of the juvenile justice system the American juvenile justice system otherthan that it processes warehouses are also at recordlevels as C E Mayer L C Carr T R Cayer N Publishing Harris A Ed California juvenile court Introduction to the juvenile justice system the child A Jus Cogensapproach to the capital punishment of Shiff A R Wexler D B in thejuvenile justice system If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.