Explicitly abandoning the parens patriae philosophy of the juvenile justice system, a "justice" philosophy was adopted. Provisions of the law include a determinate sentencing structure, the divestiture of status offenses, greater due process rights for juveniles, and a formalized diversion process which...
Balanced and Restorative Justice for Juveniles A Framework for Juvenile Justice in the 21st Century Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention RJ Project 被引量: 43发表: 1997年 Restoring justice for juveniles: A critical analysis of victimoffender mediation Increases in youth crime have ...
DMR Burnett,CD Noblin,V Prosser - 《Criminal Justice & Behavior》 被引量: 52发表: 2004年 Prospects for Remediating Juveniles' Adjudicative Incompetence With the application of adjudicative competence requirements to adolescent defendants, there is a growing need for interventions to enhance the legal ...
The Supreme People's Procuratorate's decision means that three students aged between 12 and 14 years old will stand trial for the allegedly premeditated homicide of a classmate and the burial of his body in an abandoned veg...
America’s juvenile justice system has been around for ages and has had problems since its creation. The courts have failed to devise a way to help juveniles and keep them from even entering the justice system. More often than not, juveniles are forgotten and never dealt with until they reac...
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Contemporary concerns about youth violence and related legislative reforms have resulted in greater numbers of adolescent offenders being handled in the adult criminal justice system. Although some past research suggests that juveniles transferred to adult court often receive somewhat lenient treatment, more...
Survival of the Protection Model? Competing Goals in Belgian Juvenile Justice In Belgium, juveniles under the age of 18 years have no criminal responsibility (with some exceptions as from the age of 16, see Section 5 ). There exists no lower age limit to the jurisdiction of juvenile law......
Many of these juveniles, particularly the males, are drawn into gangs due to prior family affiliations; they may have even been born into a world of gang membership. It is not uncommon for youth to have parents who are, or were, gang members, so they naturally take on the inherited ...
ProgramsforJuvenileOffenders,”byPeterGreenwoodinTheFutureofChildren volumeJuvenileJustice. Beforewelookatwhatworks,itisimportanttonotewhatdoesnot:DARE,Scared Straight,BootCamps,andtransferringjuveniles to adult courts are all strategies that have been proven ineffective at best, increasing the risks of future...