Juvenile Justice System for the Future



Juvenile Justice System For The Future

Introduction

Juvenile legal system in America is comprise of various Juvenile courts all around the state. These courts, often called “Young offender`s court”, try and pass the judgments for crimes committed by the people that are still under the age of minority, usually under eighteen. Modern Judicial methods believe that punishments offered to adults and the adolescents, must be different even though they performed same crimes. Reason is that minors are still under developed, and are not mature enough to understand the consequences of the crimes they have committed.

Therefore, the punishments must be preventive to rehabilitate their behaviors. Hence, juvenile system is to rehabilitate minors, rather than punish or imprisoning them. However, every system acts differently under each state laws and have many sentences and punishments. Juvenile punishments are strict in Georgia rather than other states where the minor can face imprisonment of more than two years for committing a murder (Government Service and Research Division, 2009).

Current Juvenile System: An Overview

Juvenile system is an important topic of criminology that is valid only upon those people that are not mature enough to be set responsible for the crimes they performed. As stated, aim of these legal courts is rehabilitation rather than imprisonment; however, the situation can be transferred to adult courts if needed. State statues producing young offender courts and offered methods for dealing with children criminal behaviors is supported by judiciaries as to ensure the welfare and security of the children. State has rights to pass the protection, maintenance, care and custody of children within the limits of the state. Federal government has played a greater role in establishments of Juveniles strategies.

The JDPCA act of 1968 (Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act), modified in 1974 to (JDPA) Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Act, assists the local and state authorities in offering services to prevent accused Juveniles from getting involved in criminal activities in future (JDPA, 1974). Federal Juvenile and Delinquency Act have describe that a delinquency action is not a crime if performed by a person under the age of eighteen, and the legal procedure and punishments would be held under Juvenile courts.

Challenges Faced By Juvenile System

Juvenile systems today, no matter how efficient they are but still can not guarantee juveniles and their parents to provide the proper assistance. Many youths serve in Juvenile techniques for problems such ...