JUVENILE CORRECTIONS

Juvenile Corrections



Juvenile Corrections

Introduction

The growth of child and adolescent crime in the U.S., as in numerous other states, is becoming increasingly urgent problem. Normal and Juvenile Court are different, primarily the result of the case. If the prosecution proves that the minor actually committed the crime, the court does not appoint him to a statutory penalty. Instead, the court decides the case, which aims to provide fix juvenile offenders and take action to address the factors and circumstances that led to commit an offense. This could mean that for a serious crime such as murder, the juvenile criminal court appoints a much less severe penalty than would be assigned an adult. And, despite the measures taken by government agencies, public organizations, prevention measures, every thirteenth crime in our country are committed by youth (Catalano and Hawkins, 1995). Moreover, in some areas, the share of juvenile crime accounts for one in eight. Specialized juvenile court or juvenile court brief from the first days of existence in the US is under considerable public scrutiny. Today, our lawyers take over their colleagues experience and build their own functional base, capable of operating in the domestic legislation.

Discussion

The mission of the Department of Youth Services in the U.S. is to provide leadership for change for young people, households and communities. It works by creating a legitimate way, an alternative to adulthood through equal access to services that are less intrusive, culturally sensitive, and in accordance with high professional standards and principles of justice (Boone and Fulton, 1995). This sense requires a high level of human and social development of all people, including criminals. The mission of the Division complies with the model of reintegration of prison practice, which in turn depends on the social reaction, stress and social disorganization perspectives in criminology. Ideally, the prisons are near or within the community to return. The control is more democratic in that the authors were interested in developing their own treatment programs. Decision making is often shared by staff and offenders, and both are guided by the principles of the activities in which they participate.

Early reformers soon realized that children and adults need to be addressed in different, and thus shelter houses were created in 1824 (Johnson, 2001). The house is considered the best interests of the child's development, but they use a strict discipline, training, housing and education, criminal.

The Act prohibited children under the age of 14 to be incarcerated under any circumstances. In the following years many statues Colorado Legislature established and amended, which belong to the adolescent court system. There are many communities, treatment that courts may exercise in the punishment of juveniles, rather than custody. Some of these community treatments: house arrest, residential programs, and the rest on probation. The arrest was carried out through electronic surveillance, GPS system, which uses ankle bracelets that send signals directly to the station. Person suggested that this type of punishment they are forced to remain within a specified range receiver located at the residence of ...