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Essay on Violent Juvenile Offenders in the Court System
Abstract: This paper is on “Violent Juvenile Offenders in the Court System". The apprehension about crime affects nearly all communities in this country and not just the big urban centers. Smaller cities and towns are also dealing with violent crime. Higher fiscal benefits for crime in large cities can explain approximately 27% of the effect for overall crime, though obviously much less of the urban- crime connection for non-pecuniary crimes such as rape or assault. Lower arrest probabilities, and lower probability of recognition, are a feature of urban life, but these factors seem to explain at most 20% of the urban crime effect. The remaining 45-60% of the effect can be related to observable characteristics of individuals and cities. (Bazemore, Gordon and Michael Umbreit. 1995) The characteristics that seem most important are those that reflect tastes, social influences and family structure. The Juvenile Court was established on the premise that children were developmentally different from adults and that the state, through the notion of parents, had a responsibility to rescue them from the law or their neglectful family and to act in the child's best interest. Responding to appalling conditions in the emerging industrial centers, the founders of the Juvenile Court saw in their efforts the establishment of a new institution for a new era. The primary goal of the Juvenile Court was to reform, not punish, the juvenile. The founders of the Juvenile Court had great ambitions for what a separate juvenile justice system might accomplish. Through the court and its supporting network of human service providers and social service agencies, early advocates for juvenile justice sought to prevent or control delinquency and to protect nondelinquents, whether they were truant, neglected, or incorrigible. The state and the court specifically, were considered to be instruments of social uplift................
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