It is predict that juvenile delinquency can decrease with substantial help, care and counseling. The significance of this study is to research and examine treatment programs for juvenile delinquents in the United States, in order to help provide solutions to juvenile delinquency and deter juveniles from future incarceration. The purpose of this final research paper is to shed some light on the lives of juvenile offenders and promote change and reform for juvenile’s lives.
To begin with, juvenile delinquency can be explained in a number of ways, but particularly a general understanding is when a minor partakes in illegal behavior and can be considered as breaking the law. The problem with treatment programs in the United States is “what is …show more content…
More directly speaking “the first juvenile court was established in 1899 in Cook County, Illinois. Before that time, children were treated very similar to adult criminals. If they were imprisoned, they would be thrown in jail with adult men and women and they carried out the same sentences as their adult counterparts. Children who were convicted of certain offenses were even sentenced to death.” (Geisser, "The History of Juvenile Delinquency in the Criminal Justice System") By placing children and youth in institutions of punishment with adults causes children to experience and learn how to become adult criminals. This method did not increase deterrence of crime in youth, it only took away the youth that have previously offended and placed them in a closer, violent and tarnishing environment. This method of punishment doesn’t add value to treating the cause of the juvenile offender offending, one can say it simply increases more juveniles to …show more content…
The systems by which juvenile delinquents were controlled forced the children to work long hours with no pay under horrific conditions. The programs did not aim to rehabilitate the children in any way; by contrast, they served to exploit them.” (Geisser, "The History of Juvenile Delinquency in the Criminal Justice System") This is one of the images that is displayed in today’s society with the government goal displayed of juvenile justice and treatment programs, the goal is to exploit children and not help them. Studies show that the old system of criminal justice is very similar to the new system of criminal justice in the United
To begin with, juvenile delinquency can be explained in a number of ways, but particularly a general understanding is when a minor partakes in illegal behavior and can be considered as breaking the law. The problem with treatment programs in the United States is “what is …show more content…
More directly speaking “the first juvenile court was established in 1899 in Cook County, Illinois. Before that time, children were treated very similar to adult criminals. If they were imprisoned, they would be thrown in jail with adult men and women and they carried out the same sentences as their adult counterparts. Children who were convicted of certain offenses were even sentenced to death.” (Geisser, "The History of Juvenile Delinquency in the Criminal Justice System") By placing children and youth in institutions of punishment with adults causes children to experience and learn how to become adult criminals. This method did not increase deterrence of crime in youth, it only took away the youth that have previously offended and placed them in a closer, violent and tarnishing environment. This method of punishment doesn’t add value to treating the cause of the juvenile offender offending, one can say it simply increases more juveniles to …show more content…
The systems by which juvenile delinquents were controlled forced the children to work long hours with no pay under horrific conditions. The programs did not aim to rehabilitate the children in any way; by contrast, they served to exploit them.” (Geisser, "The History of Juvenile Delinquency in the Criminal Justice System") This is one of the images that is displayed in today’s society with the government goal displayed of juvenile justice and treatment programs, the goal is to exploit children and not help them. Studies show that the old system of criminal justice is very similar to the new system of criminal justice in the United