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Juvenile offenders often face different penalties and policies as compared to their

adult counterparts who are considered more mature and don’t require the complex

interventions juveniles face. The reasons behind these felonies are factors as the person’s

maturity level, their propensity to peer pressure and influence. It becomes at times expensive

and intensive when the diverse offenders need rehabilitation. There are concepts familiar to

juvenile and adult crime, and they include, in terminology, they are not known as the

defendant. Instead, they are called minors. There is no personal complaint against them.

Unlike adult proceedings, juvenile cases are confidential and are not open to the public. This

means that it is only open to the judge, probational officer, the minor and the attorney, the

prosecutor and a parent. As for an adult case, any courthouse you walk into and decide to

observe a trial and listen to testimonies of one wishes is possible. Lastly, juvenile cases are

sealed as confidential records, and the public cannot know about what goes on in the juvenile

trial. One is also unlikely to find the records of the juvenile. They are sealed and very

confidential (Baker, 1989).

Every state or city has its ways of responding to such rebellious youth. When they

break the law, this can be taken care of by a probate court or family courts. However, in

every community, there has been put in place to respond to cases involving someone who is

under the age of adulthood. It is fine to say that they are juvenile courts but that is just

standard as many of these juvenile courts as abused and injured or neglected children as well

as other youth charged with non-violent or aggressive acts.

There are specific common steps in processing most of which are all common among

all juvenile system, which is pre-intake screening, filing a petition, adjudication and the

disposition. All these had different kinds of hearings, which include those as detention and

the waiver or fitness hearing, the adjudicatory and dispositional hearing as well a post-

disposition review (Jones & McDowel, 1996).

Generally, courts have three functions – settle disputes, interpret the law and finally

create expectations for future action. The federal court system has four characteristics as it is

spectating from other branches. The third feature is that they can undertake Judicial Review

over passed laws by Congress and legislature. Lastly, one should keep in mind that the

federal judges are appointed for life without a decrease in salary. This is done to preserve

their independence from politics. There are also two types of courts that make civil laws and

what differentiates them is their jurisdiction. Trial courts listen to evidence, determining what

happened. The other is appeal court that does not rely on facts and instead they rely on

questions of law, which does not mean witness and evidence, instead just an argument. It also

creates most of the universal laws, and they have a more extensive jurisdiction.

The juvenile court is set up in place and has got the power to pass judgment to young

people who have not yet gotten to maturity. The juvenile system treats them differently and

views juveniles as persons between the ages of 10 – 16 as children. This means that once they

turn 17, they will be released from the juvenile court jurisdiction and are let to go to the adult

system. But it is not that they want to try the juveniles (Zigerell, 1984). It is also an attempt to

direct those who are misguided so that once they are out, they can have a better and reformed

life away from trouble. CHINS offenses are also called Children in need of supervision are

those things adults cannot get into trouble for as truancy, having tobacco, running away,

violating curfew, possession of alcohol.

Different things can happen in a juvenile court as sometimes they do not even see the

judge. For others, they are out even before they are in. The officer might decide to assess that

case and release the child on terms as ‘She was an excellent student, and she loved people.

Maybe this was another accident,' yet the child was caught shoplifting. There are possible

dispositions such as Close, Assess, Counsel and Release which means that no further action

will be taken. In a deferred prosecution as long as the child does not misbehave, then they

must not face court action. Then there is probation which is anywhere between 6 to 12

months, but again, depending on the case they might take a longer time (Baker, 1989).

However, there are times when a child needs more supervision. This is where intensive

supervision comes in. Maybe the kid was in some form of gang, and then he will be placed in

gang-intensive supervision. If they have a drug problem, they will be put under drug ISP. For

children with cases as aggravated robbery or murder, the kid can get certified and transferred

to an adult court.

Sitting or going through the juvenile justice process can be tiring and confusing, but it

is expected that parents get engaged from start to finish participate as they stand with their

child before he is locked up. In some places, however, they have made it a priority regarding

how children and their families are treated in the juvenile approach. It has been a vital part of

the courts and probation.

While other rights vary from state to state, some of the rights are from the U.S

Supreme Court. The right to a phone call especially when they are not likely to be soon

released. They can communicate with their parents or guardians to look for an attorney, or

they can do it for themselves. The right to counsel is another right with a legal argument. If

they are not able to afford one, they are still the state appoints one for them. A minor has the

right to cross-examine witnesses as well as confront them but through an attorney. He gets

the chance to ask questions and challenge their claims (Zigerell, 1984).

In conclusion, juvenile systems are specifically meant to favor the under aged but that

does not mean all of the, as others will turn 19 and even 20 in prison. Getting to reform them

before they leave is the best thing as they will become better people un the society without

going back to court.

Works Cited

Jones, M. and McDowel, J. (1996). Teleconferencing Resource Manual. Richmond, KY:

Eastern Kentucky University.

Zigerell, J. (1984). Distance Education: An Information Age Approach to Adult Education.

Columbus, OH: ERIC Clearinghouse

Barker, B.O. (1989). Distance Education Technologies: All That Glitters Is Not Gold