JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

Juvenile Justice System

Juvenile Justice System

Theses Statement

The below research is written on the Juvenile Justice System for the minors. The outline of this discussion covers the positive effects of the Act on the minors and this shows that the implementation of the system was a good decision. (S. J., 2000)



Introduction

The term juvenile justice refers to standards, legislation, principles, procedures, mechanisms, institutions and groups specifically for the treatment of juvenile criminal offenders. Nevertheless, given the objectives of this study, the term juvenile justice does not only concern children in conflict with the law. According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, States Parties shall recognize for every child alleged as being accused of having infringed the punitive law to a behavior that is likely to foster their sense of dignity and worth which reinforces its respect for human rights and primary freedoms of others and which takes into consideration the age and the need to facilitate their reintegration into culture and to assume a positive role within it. The term also refers to efforts to eliminate the roots of crime and to strengthen preventive measures such as:

Prevention: it aims primarily to prevent children from getting into conflict with the law and, where appropriate, to prevent their direct contact with the formal criminal justice system.

Diversion: the aim is to ensure that minors at all stages of the procedure have the possibility of an alternative to formal court proceedings. These in return, build on the principles of restorative justice / restorative which involve the community, and effectively treat the causes of behavior by identifying strategies to prevent recurrence.

Protection: it aims to prevent children being in conflict with the law to be victims of violations of human rights. This protection takes into account their personal evolution to dissuade them from any recurrence. (S. J., 2000)

Yu Guoguo section on juvenile crime will be the findings and listing the responses of these findings with the purpose of the Act in its report. Congress admitted committing serious crimes, courts and juvenile correctional facilities, the existing lack of adequate response programs overcrowded juvenile arrest rate increased with the grass-roots community need to accumulate sufficient resources and reduce juvenile delinquency. The Congress, which aims to develop and implement effective programs to prevent crime to help resources to develop and implement programs to further the national and local community requirements. Other objectives include the establishment of youth crime training program for staff to develop a focus on the problem of juvenile delinquency research and the establishment of a federal assistance program to deal with the problem of runaway youth.

Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 is a U.S. federal law given funds to regions that follow a sequence of federal defense, known as the "main defenses," on the care and treatment of youth in the justice system. The four "core protections" of the act are:

Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders: offenders deinstitutionalization of status and non-offenders needs that youth who are truants, runaways ...