JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

Juvenile Justice System



Juvenile Justice System

Introduction

The enlargement in the functions of the punitive facilities in the private sector of USA has actuated numerous debates regarding the privatization of different facilities that are under the control of the federal government including the juvenile justice. A major anxiety in this regard is that ecological quality for juvenile suspects, who will have to face imprisonment in facilities, which private companies will be operating and managing, will be poorer as compared to the current facilities provided by the federal government. In this report, we will discuss the future of juvenile justice system and privatization involvement. Discussion and analysis

After the inception of private prisons in America in the mid 1980s, it has evoked a number of assaults of hearings in the congress and hundreds of articles have been published that had discussed its organizational, philosophical, legal, and economic deductions. At the end of the year 2001, private prison facilities were managing around six percent of the total delinquents from all over the country and were presenting a huge number of juvenile delinquents. Hearings in congress on the topic of private prison from that year onwards and nearly every professional association for criminal justice have taken a strong stand on this issue. In spite of, protests of a number of people from all over the country, privatization of juvenile justice system have kept on keeping them abreast since that time (Burfein and Bartusch 2010).

The general make-up of the juvenile justice system in America is facing a transformation. It was a system, which was, at a time; completely dependent on facilities provided by the public sector and over the years, this institution has developed into a web of private programs and facilities, which are providing service to a substantial ratio of total admissions in the juvenile justice systems. The private sector has served at the least three prime purposes in the governance of juvenile justice systems in America. The first of these functions is regarding the process of improvements and enhancements in the juvenile justice by creating systems that are more efficient, more effective, and more humanistic. Secondly, the private sector has played a character in the terrestrial, day-to-day organization and administration of the systems, which are using private services to a great extent. Third, they have brought shrewd administrators in the juvenile justice system to compensate for other dreadful forces in the ...