Juvenile Justice Proposal

Juvenile Justice Proposal

The Juvenile Justice consultants are doing a proposal on the present, past, and predictions of the future to improve the Juvenile Justice System. The Juvenile Justice System has many programs and facilities; some offer little help with little improvement in juveniles whereas other dedicates themselves to helping youth reforming them into successful citizens. Government does not offer much funds to these programs as if they were a waste of time and society seems to forget that the best learning process is starting at the earliest age. Youths gradually grow into the adults citizens are today and youth need positive role models, the Juvenile Justice System is the beginning stage of the Criminal Justice System. Crime rates are at their highest and prisons are overcrowding with more youth than adults corrections because of the lack of help with programs, education, funds to pay instructors, social workers, houseparent, public, and private organizations willing to devote time and patience with these youth. If the government focuses on reducing crime in the Juvenile Justice System with troubled, bothered, abandoned, and mental ill youth, maybe crime would reduce in the Criminal Justice System. The Juvenile Justice consultants are creating programs that focus on education, leadership, teamwork, stress release therapy, fun, citizenship, and motivation while building a relation with trust, truth, and confidence with the youth. The Juvenile Justice System needs help from the community, public, and private organization, corrections, law enforcement, and the courts.

In the juvenile justice system, there are two types of category status offenders and juvenile delinquents, status offender are individual who violate curfew, run away from home, or are truant questioned by school officials, police officers, and probation officers for lesser violations. Juvenile delinquent is a youth who have committed a deviant act that violates states laws, and these juveniles lack responsibility however, not charged as an adult. "The federal law wants to prohibit the secure confinement of status offenders in all circumstances, including for violations of a valid court order" (Simones & Stone, 2012, p. 5); however, if this law goes into effect the state of Georgia will not be compliance. Therefore, the recommendation needed in the juvenile court system is pass the law for confining status offender and request a status offender to a case management, electronic monitoring (NSC), multi-systemic therapy (NSC), behavioral aides (NSD), electronic monitoring (NSD), or tracking services (NSD) to save money (Simones & Stone, 2012). The money saved use it to develop community based programs to help status offender become law-abiding citizens, juvenile corrections is not the answer for status offender. Correction is for juvenile who pose a threat to society or his or herself, mixing status offenders and juvenile delinquents could result in status offender changing for the worst, the idea in juvenile corrections is to change the juvenile into a more productive individual.

A correction is a juvenile correctional facility where juvenile offenders placed after a conviction. In the United States, every state has a juvenile correctional facility for a juvenile, juveniles placed in a correctional facility for correction and not for harsh punishment. What a correctional does in the facility is to make sure that the juvenile obey the rules and protecting juvenile offenders. Correctional officers also have to encounter juvenile delinquency; juvenile delinquency is juveniles who commit crimes on a daily like truancy or violating his or her curfew. Juveniles' offenders can commit truancy by removing themselves from school without his or her parents' permission. Juveniles also violate his or her curfew when he or she is at home by the curfew law. Juveniles should have an appropriate time to be present in the home instead of hanging out on the corner or being in the streets. There are millions of juvenile offenders placed under supervision by the state. In the correctional juvenile facility correctional officers has to address issues that goes on in the facility. Some of the recommendations correctional need to improve on better staff development and training and correctional officers need to know how to handle a difficult situation with a juvenile offender. In correction, another priority for improving is there financial burden. In a correctional facility, the cost is high and the use of detention alternative to reduce the overcrowding in the facility is a need to improve, to secure detention, and to have better services for juvenile offenders.

The history of the system for juveniles is as visual of processes for coping and handling juveniles rather than a system of rehabilitation and treatment to reduce crime. There is a misjudgment between the process and the system