Essays on Youth Crime

Disadvantages of Juvenile Justice System

The primary disadvantages found in the juvenile justice system are both interconnected and based largely on what it fails to do as opposed to what it does. Although it was designed to meet the unique needs of children involved in criminal activity as a means of curtailing recidivism, it has not consistently been able to meet the very standards it has set for itself. Worse yet, in failing to do so, the juvenile justice system has acted to complicate the problem even more. Issues of escalating criminal behavior in adulthood, failure to address mental health needs, and racial bias ...

Juvenile delinquency is caused by the general rules of crime and has its own characteristics. They are mainly associated with age-related, psychological, and other individual differences of juvenile offenders and the mechanism of criminal behavior, and a manifestation of the influence of circumstances, the dynamics, the structure of their crime, demographic, and many other factors that relate to various socio - economic, moral and psychological spheres. Youth crime is a dangerous negative phenomenon. It is part of organized crime. In this case, it is a risk, in particular, it is the mode of existence of the youth criminal environment. ...

Abstract:

Mental illnesses altogether place a significant burden of disorder on young people. They induce adequate negative outcomes short- and long-term in several domains. Many youths with mental illnesses such as Bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia fall into the clutches of the criminal justice system (CJS) due to their risky behavior. This leads to a problematic quality of life. The main objective of the paper is to highlight about the mental illnesses in youth and the criminal justice system. A web search was conducted and quality articles were retrieved. It was observed that mentally ill youth encounter trouble with regard to ...

Introduction

Australia is one of the many countries in which moral panics have resulted to elevated racism. The concerns about crime and the fear of crime in many Australian cities including Sydney have greatly shaped lifestyles and have influenced the qualities of life. It is evidently that crime in many Australian cities is continually being linked to immigrants and other ethnic minorities. In Australia, in the recent years, the issue of crime committed by ethnic minorities and immigrants has been the subject of many media headlines and has greatly shaped policies, both domestic and international. The 9/11 attacks in the ...

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Introduction In the United Kingdom, the Youth Justice Board is responsible for overseeing the youth justice system in the country. According to the law, children and adolescents (10-17 years of age) are subjected to custody if found involved in criminal activities. Violence and theft are the most common crimes for which juvenile offenders are convicted. As far as the major purpose of the youth justice system in UK is concerned, it is to make sure that the young offenders are managed properly. It needs to be mentioned here that the UK youth justice system stresses on ...

DISSERTATION CONCLUSION

Introduction We live in a social set up that has revolutionized the way people and citizens of any country are governed by a set of written laws, perceived norms and acceptable culture. A breach of the laws, perceptions and norms of any cultural set up causes outcry for justice for the victims and punishment for the offenders. In medieval times, most such offenses would have invited an execution: there were no police and children witnesses execution to impart the consequences of crime. However, given the development of societal views on negative punishment that only propagates more violence, the systems ...

Crime can occur in any place so crime prevention programs are needed in every place. Crime prevention programs help to minimise the rate of crimes. Every crime prevention program is unique and the way they perform and carry out their work is not similar. Some crime prevention programs work with groups and some with individuals. In order to implement a crime prevention program, a person or group should come have a common goal and work together in order to achieve their goal which is prevention of crime. Crime prevention programs also work with students because most of the crime starts at an ...

Hate crimes may be influenced by economic competition and even resentment towards a particular group rather than a generalization about a particular group of people. It is the case that hate crimes are a result of prejudice on the part of the offender against the victim of hate crime. In this paper, we argue that the economic strain and the concomitant resentment that may be felt towards certain minority group as the African-Americans in our case here are mostly based on false generalizations (Stewart). This is to mean that most of the reasons that attend the commission of this crime are predicated on ...

Hate crimes may be influenced by economic competition and even resentment towards a particular group rather than a generalization about a particular group of people. It is the case that hate crimes are a result of prejudice on the part of the offender against the victim of hate crime. In this paper, we argue that the economic strain and the concomitant resentment that may be felt towards certain minority group as the African-Americans in our case here are mostly based on false generalizations (Stewart). This is to mean that most of the reasons that attend the commission of this crime are predicted on ...

Hate crimes may be influenced by economic competition and even resentment towards a particular group rather than a generalization about a particular group of people. It is the case that hate crimes are a result of prejudice on the part of the offender against the victim of hate crime. This paper argues that this economic strain and the concomitant resentment that may be felt towards certain minority group as the African-Americans in our case here is mostly based on false generalizations. The topic on hate crimes committed by Whites against African-Americans in the United States is connected to two criminological theories namely: ...

Introduction

The number of youths engaging in criminal activities in United Kingdom and across the world is alarming. For long, such youths were sentenced in juvenile courts and subsequently detained in respective juvenile prisons. However, as time passed, the government was concerned that detaining and sentencing the youths through the courts was an ineffective method of guiding the youth to acceptable behavior. Many programs, designed to guide the youth to up to standard behavior were introduced. Most of these methods do not use the courts; instead, they use community programs, strict parenting, warnings, surveillance, and punishment. According to Muncie and ...

Understanding Anti-social behavior

The Crime and Disorder Act (2008) defines anti-social behavior as “acting in a manner that caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household as [the defendant]”. According to Nixon et al (2003), people understand differently anti-social behavior based on a series of factors including time, context, location, community tolerance and quality of life expectations. As a result what may be regarded as an anti-social behavior to one person may be seen as an unacceptable behavior to another person. People’s understanding of anti-social behavior is based on individual perceptions and ...

Can Parental Involvement Reduce Teenage Gang Involvement?

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Literature Review

Determining the whether parental involvement can reduce teenage gang involvement begins with the exploration of the related researches. Knowing the extent of the problem is detrimental in identifying the role of parental involvement to the issues of teenage involvement to gangs from which preventive measures can be formulated. According to Howell (2010) gang violence became a widespread problem among community and to several countries in the world. In addition, the demographics of the people joining are constantly becoming younger. In South American region, the age of gang members go as young as eight years old. In other part ...

Executive Summary

This case study looks at the increasing numbers of as yet unsentenced (and therefore potentially either innocent or guilty of any offence) young people on remand in Queensland, where – in common with other states in Australia – “Efforts are primarily focused on the rehabilitation of young offenders so that even after the establishment of guilt, detention is seen as a last resort.”(Mazerolle & Sanderson, March 2008) (p.1). Because custodial remand brings young people formally into the justice system and into close contact with what Mazerolle & Sanderson refer to as “deviant peers” (p.1), it can increase the possibility of (re)offending, too. ...

Ferro, Jeffrey. Juvenile Crime. New York, NY: Facts on File, 2003. Print. Jeffrey Ferro’s journal article “Juvenile Crime” gives a state by state description and analysis of juvenile or youth crime. Since my research focuses on California, it was the state that I tended to concentrate more on. He gives illustrations as to why the youth decide to become delinquent and also gives a brief history of youth criminals in California. The only negative quality that I would probably attribute to Ferro’s literature is that he tends to concentrate more on the reasons why the youth in California ...

Abstract

Crime is a problem that has been persistent in society in the past and still is today and will be there in the future. The study of the trends of crime is one aspect that will assist in policy making. The past makes the present and the future. This essay will show how the crime trends have evolved in the past present and their impact in the future. Crime trends are defined as a significant change in the nature of selected crime types within a defined geographical area and time period. It is a measure of significant change in an area’s crime ...

Assuming that everyone in their life is capable of committing crime, but also that crime is not an innate human characteristic you have no other option but to accept that criminal behaviour is something that is learned through processes of social interactions with others. This process goes on indefinitely, it can happen at any time, someone could watch a crime program and just decide to go out and rob a bank. But this process starts at an early age and with the uk youth crime rate rising can we prevent the spread of youth crime by identifying some of its key ...

Juvenile delinquency refers to the antisocial or abnormal legal behavior by minors or adolescents, for dealing with juveniles, such as juvenile detention centers. A delinquent is an individual who often commits crime. Juvenile delinquency is a legal term, which if translated and applied to adults, would be deemed as a criminal offence (Bartollas & Schmalleger, 2010, p 17). In the United States, age limits and definitions of minors differ from state to state. Almost all states have put their age limits to the juvenile offender. Some states have put the age limit to a maximum of 21 years while others have it as low ...