JUVENILES AND CRIME

Juveniles and crime

Juveniles and crime

Introduction

There are teenagers, as under control today as they were in the past? Crime plays an important role in modern society. The Government's policy, and has always followed the policy that no crime goes unpunished. The controversy that surrounds the United States court today is whether or not a juvenile must be brought before the court as an adult with a serious crime. These decisions are taken by judges or the jury during the preliminary hearing affects the rest of the life of a minor (www.findarticles.com).

Background

In the nineteenth century, when the juvenile justice system was first launched, it reflects the view that children are innocent, the less guilty of criminal motives, and in greater need of protection and discipline, than in adults. As it has been for many years, beginning in the late 1800's, the juvenile court system was designed to take the child offenders from the criminal courts and to protect them from criminal procedure and its consequences. In the courts aim to punish and / or meet the violations that the child has not complied with, or damaged.

Discussion

Despite the fact that the factors that account for these earlier views on children are varied and complex, most of which are factors associated with children's environments, such as the general meanness of life, adverse economic conditions and social disorders (www.encyclopedia.com). These factors led to the development of numerous procedures and special laws for minors, in contrast to the current legislation, which were for adult offenders. Such causes of these changes are that in the nineteenth century, industrialization, urban migration, economic change, and population growth in the country, which contributed to the child's behavior (www.crime.about.com).

Minors who commit crimes can be charged as adults of a felony, a crime or offense. Minor's crime or offense is a legal term for behavior of children and adolescents under the age of eighteen years that the adults will be tried under criminal law. In immature usually not considered being morally responsible for their behavior. Under certain circumstances, a young offender may be tried as juveniles or adults.

Initially, the age of a person when the alleged crime occurred decide whether he or she will be tried as a juvenile. Children aged seven to seventeen, who are suspected of a crime should be treated as children in need of support and guidance, not as vicious criminals. But the opposition believes ...