CJUS285-1302A-01 Juvenile Delinquency
Phase 1- Individual Project
Professor Grace Mickles
Obaid Rahman
April 15, 2013
There are many advantages of the taxpayer and the juveniles to split the juvenile courts into two sections because it will benefit taxpayer and juveniles by splitting into sections. By doing that status offenders will get more help and treat as a minor crime offender, which they don’t in a joint section. Status offenders are treated unfairly, and don’t get the punishment what they are committed too, there is a need for splitting a juvenile court into two sections. The advantages of splitting will help status offenders to be treated fairly according to their offences.
Other advantage toward splitting courts will increase the ability of juvenile courts to punished young offenders, and this will benefit to taxpayers because the punishment will determined offenders and will reduced cases of young kids and help them to pay less for juveniles cases. Juvenile delinquent court and status offender court will benefits juveniles because it will make it possible for the juvenile courts to differentiate between major and minor crimes. The process will be more efficient and juveniles will get more proper response from specific courts.
I think the higher court judges rule and appoint the judges who work for juvenile courts, who can handle all the juvenile cases and separated those cases by category and according to crime charges. Juvenile’s delinquency cases are those cases which juveniles violated a law or a serious crime which done by juveniles. In other hand the young offenders who charge with the offence but cannot be classified as criminal violation offence that can only be applied to children, which is why rehabilitation program is must for those kids who can turn back to their normal life.
There should be a specific program for those parents who have or had their children in criminal activity, in order to
References: Minor Crime Is a Major Ordeal (2007), retrieved from (http://criminal.findlaw.com/juvenile-justice/minor-crime-is-a-major-ordeal.html) Juvenile Court by Kathleen Michon, retrieved from (http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/juvenile-court-overview-32222.html)