Essays on juvenile crime

There has always been alarm and despair over escalating juvenile crime. In the 1950s there were reports about the mushrooming problems with youthful gangs in the big cities. In the 1960s we began to hear about a surge of juvenile crime in areas that had been regarded as virtually crime free. In the suburbs as […]

Some similarities are that both courts issues sanctions, courts plea bargaining is often an option, the defendant has a due process rights in addition to unreasonable searches and seizures rights. Juvenile and adult offender receive Miranda rights at time of arrest. (Bartollas, Miller. 2008). Both courts use proof beyond a reasonable doubt as a standard […]

“Should Juveniles Be Tried as Adults” is an essay by Laurence Steinberg. which expresses his positions of if. when. and why young person wrongdoers should be tried as grownups. He compares the juvenile system to the grownup system and point out hat the two differ in their several signifiers of determination devising for intervention or […]