Juvenile Offenders
Essays

Juvenile Violent Offenders in the United States

In basic terms, handling juvenile offenders remains the key purpose of juvenile courts. Hence these courts are designed not to punish but to treat and guide. However, though juvenile courts have been in operation for…

Juvenile offenders in Illinois will likely have their charges adjudicated in adult court if they are over the age of 17 and charged with a felony. This report examines how the Illinois Juvenile Justice System would dispose of a 17-year old offender charged with the felony offense of possessing a concealed weapon. Given this offender’s prior history of felony convictions and documented gang affiliation, he would likely be sentenced to at least the mandatory minimum of 3 years in state prison.

Juvenile delinquency has been an ever-evolving issue in the United States. From aims focused on prevention and rehabilitation that resulted in the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974; to a reverse…

Juvenile offenders and reoffenders are an important problem facing the United States criminal justice system. For more than one hundred years, states held the belief that the juvenile justice system acted as a vehicle…

Juvenile Offenders, an Intervention Analysis

Juvenile offenders have grown to become a serious problem in many countries, especially the United States. Like adult offenders, juvenile offenders are more likely to reoffend, especially without the proper guidance and…

Missouri has seen a rise in African-America juveniles tried as adults. Statistics from 2009 state 64% of the juveniles tried as adults were of African-American descent. This is almost double of the amount in 2001 which…

This paper is a series of discussion questions, responses, and counter-responses to the questions. The central issues are in the field of criminal justice, specifically the juvenile justice system. The questions focus on the idea of competency within the juvenile justice system. This includes whether juveniles are competent to stand trial as adults and whether juveniles should be on trial, regardless of status.