Juvenile_Justice

Juvenile Justice The juvenile justice system has been around for several hundred years. They are treated differently than adult offenders mainly because of their age and mental capacities I am going to give a brief history of the juvenile justice system and what they did to punish the offender. Also some different ways to transfer juveniles to adult courts and a few sentencing guidelines. Race also is a factor in the juvenile justice system. There are many more aspects of the juvenile justice system, but this is a little descriptive taste of what goes on. Juvenile offenders have been treated differently from adults for around six hundred years. In the late Fourteenth century, English common law saw the defense of immaturity. In other words they had a guide of some sorts. Children under the age of seven could not be found guilty of a crime. They were presumed to lack the mental capacity to under stand what they were doing. Then from the ages of seven to fourteen the children were presumed to lack any criminal capacity, but the prosecution could rebut it. From fourteen and up immaturity could not be raised and the juvenile could be tried as an adult. Reasons juvenile, myers, system, court, courts, justice, waiver, adult, youths, feld, youth, offenders, crimes, states, judicial, criminal, committed, children, age, state, crime, being, years, ways, treated, transfer, separate, sentencing, punishment, prosecutorial, process, offender, laws, juveniles, just, century