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Juvenile Court Procedures

Running Head : Name : JUVENILE COURT PROCEDURES IN THE UNITED STATES

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Juvenile Court Procedures in the United States

A juvenile is defined as a person whose age bracket is below the age of majority . However , in the United States , the term juvenile varies in age , where some states take it to be , fifteen , sixteen , or even seventeen years . Juvenile who shows delinquency are tried and tested at the juvenile courts in US . A plain of fair trial of justice is therefore placed upon each deviant , where

penalties vary with the age and the delinquency commission by the suspect . Above their trials in the juvenile courts , offenders are usually given other protections which are special to their offence and age . As a rule , the suspect 's parents or even a guardian is supposed to be available at the questioning to the offender by the police and even the names of the juveniles to be confidential in the accusation of a crime suspect . Miller and Larry (2007 ) states that ' For crimes (especially more violent crimes , the age at which a minor may be tried as an adult is variable below the age if 18 or (less often ) below 16 (p . 495

In the US , juvenile crimes vary differently according to the nature and the content of the crime . Such crimes are political , state corporate and public crimes . Others are such as organized crime and white collar crime . The penalties to these crimes also vary differently according to the nature of the crime such penalties are deterrence retribution , subject to a prison , using rehabilitation , and recidivism . The US , uses various version of legal justice penalties to subject victims of Juvenile delinquency where juvenile delinquency are violent crime or even sometimes non-violent acts which are normally committed by persons under eighteen years and who are considered as been minors However , many activists find themselves indifferent of whether such victims should be held responsible of criminal offenses of their actions or not . This is because , there are many factors that may affect a child 's behaviour , which implies that , some of the offenders should not be held as criminals

In the US , justice requirements for juvenile delinquents vary from one state to another . However , in 1974 , the government of United States established a legislation whose intention was to form a Unified way of handling the crimes of juvenile delinquents (The Juvenile Justice and Development Act . Its act was to provide grants for the programs aimed at reducing juvenile delinquency . It was also aimed at researching and developing statistics about reducing juvenile crimes

In addition , the act addressed on , over representation , removal of jail and lock up of the juveniles , segregation and the deinstitutionalization of the youths . By segregation , the act argued about a of the youths and the adult people who were held in police custodies In removal from jails and lock up , it ed that , those youths who were to be subjected to the juvenile courts were not to be...

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