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Juvenile Deliquency
Juvenile Delinquency
The system of juvenile courts is vital in all the nations globally more so in the U.S. Its purpose is to control the welfare of children, provide guidance and counseling while taking care of kids who have been abandoned by their parents. These systems address problems facing children who are below 18 years of age. These courts have authority in addressing cases that involve support to children, terminating parents' rights, and detention. Juveniles who commit serious crimes are handled by higher courts. The juvenile courts also address cases involving young people who commit serious crimes. In addition, these courts are in charge of juveniles who commit traffic offences or who are involved in military crimes (Trulson & Carmen, 2005).
The high court judge will appoint judges in the new juvenile courts. These cases involve youth offenders who have gone against the law. Law experts have argued that a status offender is a youth charged with...
Further, they have indicated that a juvenile delinquent is a child who has committed an offence. The above offenders can only be charged by using laws that apply to children (Winterdyk, 2002).
There are plans to split the juvenile courts into two. One section will be handling cases of juvenile delinquent while the other section will handle cases of state offenders. Research indicates that most kids who are involved in juvenile delinquency are status offenders. Thus, there is an increasing concern over splitting of the juvenile court system into two sections. If the juvenile court system is split into two sections, it will be beneficial to both juveniles and taxpayers. First, if the juvenile court system is split will of advantage to status offenders. These offenders are given unfair treatment in the juvenile courts thus the need to split the juvenile court system. Addressing matters of juvenile delinquents separately from status…
References
Winterdyk, J. (2002). Juvenile Justice Systems: International Perspectives. New York: Canadian
Scholars' Press
Trulson, C. & Carmen, R. (2005). Juvenile Justice: The System, Process, and Law. California:
Cengage Learning
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In summary, observational preexperience had differential effects on the timing of subsequent contingency performance of infants (p. 693)." This research supports the potential for vicarious learning as a pre-emptor to juvenile delinquency when the family, academic, and social conditions are reflective of the elements that reflect a lack of structure, participation in community, poverty, and poor education systems that are not financed to provide the infrastructure in a child's early