Juvenile Justice System: Judge, Juvenile Police Officer, and Probation Officer

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Juvenile Justice System: Judge, Juvenile Police Officer, and Probation Officer

Thesis Statement

In a Juvenile Court this case of Charlie a 10 year old needs to be investigated further before assigning a disposition. The essay focuses on making the best decision for this child the professionals involved must work together.

Introduction

The crime rate of juvenile theft and robbery has been increased during the last decade in the United States and other part of the world. According to the U.S. law, the child (juvenile) who breaks the law is considered as an offender depending on the type of violence he conducted. A juvenile offender is called as delinquent offender if he or she is under the age of 17 years and does something which is considered as crime for people above 17 years of age. There are particular crimes which distinguish the crime offenders, just like Status offenders are the juvenile who conduct crimes (which are minor) that breaks laws but would be a crime considered for adults, but still it is against the law. Its example may contain, truancy, running away from homes etc.

In our case the suspect is a 10 year old child named as Charlie who had conducted a theft of $100 and charged with several counts of shoplifting at a local convenient store and caught by the juvenile police officer.

The juvenile has a different and separate system of justice, which has separate juvenile courts and police officers. But it is not mandatory that a juvenile is only caught by the juvenile officer, but in reality any police officer can catch a juvenile for any illegal activity and then the further activities and issues would be handled by the juvenile officer. In a juvenile courts, comparatively to adult court, is different from many aspects, the police, state's attorneys, probation officers and judges etc have more freedom of making a decision as compared to adult court.

Discussions

The juvenile court also handles the delinquency cases depending on the one of the six types of cases or says petitions which are handled by the court. The one type of petition in which youth is involved in breaking a law under age of 17 is considered as a crime if committed by someone above 17 years of age.

Usually the police officer (in our case the Juvenile Police officer) who catch up the juvenile are the first to contact in the justice system and they have liberty to take several actions which can include, referring the case to the juvenile court or taking the minor back to his or her parents with some warnings. It all depends on the depth of crime committed by the minor, it has been seen that the officer decide to make adjustments or say “station adjustments” which involves warning so that the child stay out of the trouble, to cooperate with parents, or to go to school. The station detentions are issued only a number of limited times, if there is ...