Essays on Juvenile Justice System

This article primarily focuses on how children in foster care and the juvenile justice system have mental health issues. This article also goes into depth about the risks of being put in foster homes, and how that affects the children physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially....

The School-to-Prison Pipeline further advances low-income families into the cycle of poverty and is detrimental to society and change. The School-to-Prison Pipeline is a concept where children of minorities are being oppressed by the school system and that directly leads to expulsion, which leads to...

The story “The Match” written by Colson Whitehead opens with the discovery of a secret grave full of buried, unidentified bodies located on the school of what used to be Nickel Academy, a reform school for troubled juveniles. It is a story where former students...

Should there be a death penalty for juvenile criminal offender? This has been one of the most sensitive and highly debated topics both in our Federal and State Legislatures in recent years. It is also one of the most high-profile subjects that several civil rights...

In 1998, juvenile offenders were responsible for 29% of criminal arrests in the United States and are among the fastest growing groups of offenders. The purpose of this paper is to examine the different perceptions of juvenile crimes and punishment among the general public. Perceptions...

Juvenile Justice is the area of criminal law applicable to persons not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts. It is a justice system for criminal offenders under the age of 18. In the United States youth are incarcerated at an increasingly alarming...

In all of the 50 states that comprise the United States of America, youths under the age of 18 can be tried in an adult criminal court system through several types of juvenile transfer laws. In Colorado, adolescence as young as 12 years old can...

Recidivism is a major issue in the juvenile justice system today and is difficult to track and combat due to deficiencies in recording and reporting standards. It is important for juvenile justice agencies to attempt to combat this problem and they have many tools at...

As a rule, boot camps are viewed as a milder punishment than imprisonment in some residential facility, but a more restrictive one than a mere probation period. However, the state support of juvenile boot camps has significantly decreased over the years, partially due to an...

In 2001, the juvenile justice system of Ireland passed the Children Act in hopes to have a more humane approach to controlling and disciplining children, as well as altering the legislation. Seymour (2017) found that Ireland focuses on rehabilitation and prevention of crime by using...