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Juvenile Justice - College Term Paper

Juvenile Justice

The System as it typically functions in America's
thousands of jurisdictions is the subject that will be covered. The Juvenile
Justice System is defined as that "sociolegal process having responsibility and
authority for public reaction to current juvenile delinquency and deterrence of
future juvenile delinquency, including within that process the public and
private agents, agencies, laws, rules, and policies having to do with juvenile
delinquency"(Weiner, 1987, p.12). This paper will deal with the history of the
juvenile system, the need for the juvenile system, juvenile court functions,
parents in court and programs that have worked, along with ones that haven't.
Because the first ...

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to have a
guilty mind, or mens rea. Thus, from almost the beginning children have been
treated differently from adults who commit the same acts.
The origin of juvenile corrections in the United States goes, back at
least to the opening of the New York House of Refuge in 1825. This house of
refuge was established to meet the same kinds of needs the JJS of today tries to
meet, including avoidance of harsh criminal penalties for unfortunate children,
segregating "predeliquent" children from hardened delinquents, providing
"proper" moral, ethical, political, and social values and role models for
deprived children, and treating such children as victims rather than offenders.
This is the main reason why we do need the Juvenile Justice System.
The function of the juvenile court system is to take a somewhat fatherly
and protective attitude toward children, whether to offer humanitarian
assistance or parental punishment. Juvenile court was primarily established
however by a desire ...

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Added: 6/30/2007 12:00:47 PM
Category: Government
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 870
Pages: 4

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