Essays on Juvenile

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...

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...

A sixteen year old male was wrongfully arrested after being accused of stealing a backpack. He was never convicted of the crime but spent nearly three years in Riker’s Island. He went through beatings, starvation, and torture while being imprisoned. After being released, the young...

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...

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...

Although the term social control has been widely used in numerous scientific fields for a long time, a general definition has not been agreed upon yet among many writers. This is partly due to the fact that the word ‘control’ has different meanings in languages...