Juvenile Probation: Causes, Processes, Outcomes, and Effects on Juvenilely Delinquent Youth According to NeMoyer, McKitten, Prelic, Ebbecke, Foster, & Burkard, probation has been used more commonly for juvenile sentencing for over twenty years than any other form of formal disposition (2014.) Juvenile probation accounts for more than 60% of all juvenile delinquent dispositions. (NeMoyer et al., 2014.) Statistics show that 1.9 million juveniles were arrested during the year of 2009 (Barnert, Perry, Azzi, Shetgiri, Ryan, Dudovitz, Zima, Chung, 2015; Choate, Manton, 2014) and 1.6 million juvenile arrests in the year of 2010 (Ryan, Abrams, Huang, 2014.) In the year of 2007, 16% of arrests related to violent crimes and 26% of all property crimes
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This paper will examine the ins and outs of how the juvenile justice system effects rehabilitation, recidivism, and rearrests on juveniles within said system. The paper will also discuss disproportionalities among differing races within the system and how the different races may or may not be treated and effected by different terms of …show more content…
“Racial disproportionality is perhaps the most striking feature of the correctional population today” (Bechtold, Monahan, Wakefield, Cauffman, 2015.) Black youth comprised only 16% of the United States’ population in the year of 2009, but accounted for or were involved in 51% of all violent offenses committed in the same year, according to Bechtold and associates (2015.) Black youth are five times likelier to be detained and/or arrested (Bechtold et al., 2015), and Hispanic youth are three times likelier, to be arrested than White youth of the same age demographics (Barnert et al., 2015.) Subsequently, youth of color are at greater risk of failing to comply with the terms of their probation than their White counterparts (NeMoyer et al., 2014.) This can be explained by the fact that “neighborhoods predominantly composed of families from ethnic minorities have a greater police presence and thus a higher likelihood of arrest for youths of color” (Barnert et al.,
This paper will examine the ins and outs of how the juvenile justice system effects rehabilitation, recidivism, and rearrests on juveniles within said system. The paper will also discuss disproportionalities among differing races within the system and how the different races may or may not be treated and effected by different terms of …show more content…
“Racial disproportionality is perhaps the most striking feature of the correctional population today” (Bechtold, Monahan, Wakefield, Cauffman, 2015.) Black youth comprised only 16% of the United States’ population in the year of 2009, but accounted for or were involved in 51% of all violent offenses committed in the same year, according to Bechtold and associates (2015.) Black youth are five times likelier to be detained and/or arrested (Bechtold et al., 2015), and Hispanic youth are three times likelier, to be arrested than White youth of the same age demographics (Barnert et al., 2015.) Subsequently, youth of color are at greater risk of failing to comply with the terms of their probation than their White counterparts (NeMoyer et al., 2014.) This can be explained by the fact that “neighborhoods predominantly composed of families from ethnic minorities have a greater police presence and thus a higher likelihood of arrest for youths of color” (Barnert et al.,