Category: Juvenile Crime

Social Construction Of Youth Crime This essay will analyse and evaluate the historical and contemporary contextualisation of the development of the social construction of youth and evaluate the states response to the youth offending. It will appraise the process of distinguishing childhood from little adults to a life stage synonymous with vulnerability and in need…

Juvenile Justice System: Where Is It Now? From the start of the nineteenth century, youth have been granted the privilege of being tried as children, rather than adults. Before then, any child above the age of seven could be charged as an adult criminal and sent to prison (National Academic Press). According to Juvenile Justice,…

A Comprehensive Approach To Solve Juvenile Crime And Violence Australias what works rehabilitation scheme In recent years, correctional agencies around Australia have been increasingly influenced by what is commonly known as the ‘what works’ model to offender rehabilitation. This system claims to be more effective in discouraging reoffences. The approach consists of three key principles,…

Why Is It Important To Divert Young People Who Have Committed Crime Away From The Criminal Justice System? Introduction The process of criminalisation and marginalisation associated with juvenile offending can impact relationships, education and employment opportunities and mark young offenders with a stigma for the rest of their lives (Cunneen and White 2002). It has…

Should Juveniles be Tried as Adults Essay Introduction The issue with juveniles being tried as adults in today’s society was created to handle juvenile offenders based on their youth rather than their crimes. Many states passed laws making it easier to try certain youthful offenders as adults. Many people believe that teens should be held…

Should Juveniles Be Tried And Treated As Adults? Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere Introduction The issue of serious/violent juvenile crime may be a very complex one, warranting a judicious approach to be adopted to effectively address the competing interests of those juveniles, the victims (especially women and girls), which of public safety.…

The Outsiders: the Theme of Juvenile Delinquency The Outsiders directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and written by S.E. Hinton depicts the social rivalry between the high school cliques Greasers and Socs. The Greasers are the lower class, the poor kids from the wrong side of town or mostly know by the designated delinquents. The Socs,…

Should Juvenile Offenders Be Charged As Adults? When teenagers are growing up it is a time when our minds are not fully developed like an adult. In recent years juvenile crimes have increased. Some reasons could be from being pressured into doing criminal things or society making it look cool. These teenagers have trouble understanding…

The Juvenile Injustice System: The Horror Of Kid VS Criminal Meet 14-year-old Kenneth Young who was misguided by his poverty-stricken neighborhood and his drug addicted mother. His only sister has recently welcomed an infant into the world bringing a rush of responsibility crashing upon the shoulders of little Kenneth, being the only man in the…

Juvenile Crime And Guilty Offenders In the fight against crime, society requires the need for perpetrators such as disease patients who show somatic symptoms for the satisfaction of their impulses that comes under their conscious mind soon to withdrawal, and it is necessary to take serious measurements from the families in the way of crime…