The juvenile justice system is very different form the justice system. The reason being is that in the juvenile system it deals obviously with kids. Kids are not done growing physically and more importantly mentally. Depending on there age they are most likely still tying to find a sense of self. So it is key to treat them with developmental tactics to help them find and mature out of delinquency. The mistreatment in the juvenile facilities is a huge problem. It all starts with the fact that they are still in that developmental stage of there life. And this is not even mentioning the fact of gender differences too. So that takes it to a different place entirely because males think and act differently than females do. So we have treat each case with a different set of eyes to help each person better themselves especially in the juvenile stage of live. Jfl123
Agreed! We need to give kids more grace and mercy than adults, especially when it is the adults fault for the juvenile being messed up. It would be a different world if we could all grasp this concept. BenRoethlisberger123
I agree. The child's mind is not done developing. Juvenile facilities do mistreat some of them. They are different than adults. Therefore, can not be treated that same. What prisons do to adults can not be the same as how children are treated. They are different. I agree that genders are different too. dance456
This is very true girls and boys develop at different rates and females mature at different rates. They can not be treated the same. They shouldn't be treated like adults either because it will make them think they are just as bad and again they might accept that label and start a criminal career. Bassfishing123
I agree that the adult and juvenile justice systems are different. The juveniles need more help due to they are still trying to develop and could not realize they did something wrong till its too late. Adults know what is right and wrong so they don't need as much assistance. They should develop programs to help juveniles make better life decisions and not get in trouble again. dragons456
Yes growing up a lot of things are to be learned wether it's learned the easy or the hard way a lot of teens growing up had it either the hard or easy way and would only know that way out. We all know that cjs is different then juvenile being that it's more of a kid nature. And being kids we get second chances because we have not lived out life yet and of course there will be mishaps along the way. Just like the prison programs we need some for our young ones too because if it can start with them changing them growing into an adult there won't be any problems period. LifeImagine789
"The study found that 84 percent of girls in the criminal justice system had experienced violence in their homes and 31 percent had experienced sexual abuse at home. Additionally, girls of color and those who identify as LBQ/GNT (lesbian, bisexual, questioning/gender non-conforming transgender) had a particularly difficult experience in the system." This directly correlates with labeling theory. As soon as a girl may be labeled bisexual or lesbian, all of the sudden people look at her differently. We need to respect others views and help create a healthy atmosphere for these kids. Equality is the big word here, and unfortunately we have seen little of that over the past few decades. BenRoethlisberger123
The criminal justice system handles juveniles different because their just kids, I mean I believe they just don't know no better. I mean some kids do know what they are doing but some could just be running from problems from home. It says 84% of girls in the criminal justice had experienced violence in their home. keya123
What it comes down to is how the child has been brought up and what their background is a kid could have no sense of what he or she is doing at 12 in a higher income neighborhood and could have a lot of an idea of what he or she is doing at the same age in a lower income neighborhood it just really depends on upbringing. This day an ae is probably the most difficult for girls because a lot of different views and ideas are being flooded into their minds and they ultimately have to choose what and how they are going to act and most of the time but not all a person will do what the people around them are doing. 36chambers123
The way Juveniles are handled should be and is different. A juveniles brain is not done developing. the part of the brain the tells a person right and wrong is not done being developed. That is why teens always think "nothing can happen to me." People fail to realize how different males and females are. They also fail to realize how different Adults and Juveniles are. Someone can not treat a Juvenile the same way they treat an adult. Also i do not believe in punishing a young girl for something she can not control. For example sex trafficking. I honestly do not think any young girl or women is willing to do that. dance456
Girls accept more labels that others put upon them. Many juveniles "act out" because of situations they are faced with at home. Some of the reasons girls turn to prostitution comes back to their childhood. If a girl was labeled a tramp her whole life by her father or mother, it is likely that he or she will start to act like it. Sexual abuse can also cause someone to act out. Many girls that are sexually abused don't know who to turn too because most of the time it is a family member or close friend that is sexually abusing them, They might run away or try and find a boy to live with to try to temporary get out of that situation. This can completely consume a girl psychologically and might make her turn to drugs or other means to try to cope or "forget" what happened. Bassfishing123
What you wrote about when females turn to crimes and it starts with the family I thought was a very important factor to remember in juveniles females or any female crime for that matter. I also thought you did a good pointing out what happens when abuse or neglect happens how the girls will respond to those situations. Jfl123
Everything goes back to their childhood. If they saw drugs laying on the table, they will probably do the drugs. If they see their mom come home with a different guy every night, they will too. Everything comes back to their parents and how they were raised. I agree that sexual abuse can make you act out as well. They are just trying to forget what happened. FBI123
I think that this article is correct by saying the juvenile girls need more help. This shouldn't just be applied to women. Men are also subject to this traumatiziation. Though the arrest for juvenile arrests are decreasing, the number of arrests for female juveniles are decreasing much slower than men. this means they are not getting the proper help and comfort that they need to prevent them from committing crimes. this needs to be changed.
Juveniles should be handled differently than adults. Their brain is not done fully developing so they have more problems deciding between right and wrong. Another big influence on juveniles is their home life. Their home life can effect their decisions they make and can make them choose to make the wrong ones. They see things growing up thinking it right to do it but when its wrong and they end up making the same mistake an get in trouble for it. The female juvenile arrest rate is decreasing slower than the mens is. This could mean female could not be getting as much help once they get in trouble as the men do. dragons456
I agree.. What i don't understand is how at 13 yr old you can't consent to sex with a 24 yr old and he be imprisoned because he made u think he loved you and what you guys have is normal and but if a 13 yr old commit a crime with a 24 yr they both are at fault... That comes to show that the bran isn't developed in a child no matter what situation it is. In both cases the child is the victim.MotherOf4123
Reading this kind of made me mad. The Columbia Training school is Mississippi " where girls were shackled for twelve hours a day for eight days to one month, hog-tied with chains, physically and sexually assaulted, isolated in windowless rooms, and denied adequate mental health treatment." How is this right? Yes, the girls in this facility were convicted. But, they are juveniles. They are there to serve their time and to learn, hopefully to better themselves. Not to be denied of mental health treatment. Maybe one reason they were there was because they ran away from home because a parent was sexually assaulting them, or abusing them in anyway. They got in trouble and now they were in that place getting the same thing done to them. They need to learn from what happened. They do not need to relive that. I am very happy that they closed that facility down. FBI123
Women were first seen as too busy to commit crime. They were taking are of children and home such as washing dishes and ironing clothes. As the years went by women and young girls started to react to the different things occurring in their lives not so much as they got old but as juveniles. Most women that commit criminal behavior are victims of sexual assault and or child abuse from loves ones (dad, brother, uncle, cousins even intimate partners) As per this story they are going to jail prisons camps but still are enduring rape sexual assault and abuse. MotherOf4123
One in five juveniles arrested for violent crimes were females. Most of the crimes that are committed by girls or even women were more for drug offenses, prostitution, or theft and burglary. It is just recently that females are becoming just as prevalent as men. Most of the females have dealt with abuse and violence at home. The girls are in an environment that is traumatizing to them and not helping them. They ended up in the system or committing crime because they have experienced this already that doesn’t mean it needs to continue elsewhere. The article states that across the U.S fails to address the needs of young women. Many girls need the programs, education, and support groups to allow them a better chance at life. To choose a different path and hopefully not make the same mistakes. CSI 123
Should we give women, who commit crimes, a break because of past abuse they may have endured. Although any form of abuse they might have put up with should be taken in to account, in the long run, they are responsible for their own actions. Does anyone ask if a male was abused in the past when he is being arrested. If women are going to catch a break for something, men should have just as much of a chance to do the same. The hammer of justice needs to be unisex.
Female delinquency is increasingly gaining momentum and is starting to get quite out of hand. It is really quite interesting to think about because they say a lot of the time when a female commits a crime it is because she has been abused at a certain time in her life. If being abused is a direct link to the reason why they commit crime, and more crimes are being committed now more than ever that might mean that more females are being abused which means that not only is the female crime rate rising but it should affect the male crime rate as well. I also believe that in these days that females feel more equal to men and see themselves being able to do things just as well as a man should which is also another factor that could be affecting the crime rate. Even though the crime rate is shown to be increasing we never actually know the amount of crimes that are committed each year and for all we know crime could be higher than ever or lower than ever it just depends on how and if people are getting caught doing these deviant acts. Maybe females are not as good at concealing their crimes as men are. That could be an interesting topic to research.
The criminal justice has its ups and its downs, and the low points have been traumatic for certain individuals such as juveniles.The juvenile girls that are arrested for nonviolent, self harming crimes like prostitution and drug abuse need a different punishment. Or maybe not even a punishment at all, more like a rehabilitation for their self harming behavior that usually occurs due to lack of parental guidance or a tough child hood. These female offenders should be looked after and set on the right path that they were not shown as a child. KLICK456
Prostitution and drug abuse are self harming crimes. If a crimes only victim is the perpetrator is it really a crime? For these kind of crimes, whether male or female, they should be put in rehabilitation and not prison. Those kind of crimes show that the person has lost control of their own life and putting them back on the straight and narrow, might be all they need to fix themselves. If a women commits a felony or violent crime they need to be punished just as severely as a man. The judicial system should be blind to gender and race. There should not be any "cutting them slack" for a criminal simply because they are female.
I believe that there is a gender inequality that exists in the justice system. I believe many women are criminalized for actions that they had no control over for personal safety reasons. And with this whole idea of the victim being the offender, these crimes are only hurting the offender. With that in mind, do we need to be sentencing these people (men and women) to long prison sentences? I believe these individuals should be rehabilitated in halfway houses and with other similar services more than just being locked up. We have a chance to really help people but statistically it seems that we are just locking people up and releasing them under the assumtion that "hard time" did anything. Hopefully with pushed effort we can start to see a change with these issues. -Pack789
The juvenile justice system is very different form the justice system. The reason being is that in the juvenile system it deals obviously with kids. Kids are not done growing physically and more importantly mentally. Depending on there age they are most likely still tying to find a sense of self. So it is key to treat them with developmental tactics to help them find and mature out of delinquency. The mistreatment in the juvenile facilities is a huge problem. It all starts with the fact that they are still in that developmental stage of there life. And this is not even mentioning the fact of gender differences too. So that takes it to a different place entirely because males think and act differently than females do. So we have treat each case with a different set of eyes to help each person better themselves especially in the juvenile stage of live.
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DeleteAgreed! We need to give kids more grace and mercy than adults, especially when it is the adults fault for the juvenile being messed up. It would be a different world if we could all grasp this concept.
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I agree. The child's mind is not done developing. Juvenile facilities do mistreat some of them. They are different than adults. Therefore, can not be treated that same. What prisons do to adults can not be the same as how children are treated. They are different. I agree that genders are different too.
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This is very true girls and boys develop at different rates and females mature at different rates. They can not be treated the same. They shouldn't be treated like adults either because it will make them think they are just as bad and again they might accept that label and start a criminal career.
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I agree that the adult and juvenile justice systems are different. The juveniles need more help due to they are still trying to develop and could not realize they did something wrong till its too late. Adults know what is right and wrong so they don't need as much assistance. They should develop programs to help juveniles make better life decisions and not get in trouble again. dragons456
DeleteYes growing up a lot of things are to be learned wether it's learned the easy or the hard way a lot of teens growing up had it either the hard or easy way and would only know that way out. We all know that cjs is different then juvenile being that it's more of a kid nature. And being kids we get second chances because we have not lived out life yet and of course there will be mishaps along the way. Just like the prison programs we need some for our young ones too because if it can start with them changing them growing into an adult there won't be any problems period. LifeImagine789
Delete"The study found that 84 percent of girls in the criminal justice system had experienced violence in their homes and 31 percent had experienced sexual abuse at home. Additionally, girls of color and those who identify as LBQ/GNT (lesbian, bisexual, questioning/gender non-conforming transgender) had a particularly difficult experience in the system." This directly correlates with labeling theory. As soon as a girl may be labeled bisexual or lesbian, all of the sudden people look at her differently. We need to respect others views and help create a healthy atmosphere for these kids. Equality is the big word here, and unfortunately we have seen little of that over the past few decades.
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The criminal justice system handles juveniles different because their just kids, I mean I believe they just don't know no better. I mean some kids do know what they are doing but some could just be running from problems from home. It says 84% of girls in the criminal justice had experienced violence in their home. keya123
ReplyDeleteWhat it comes down to is how the child has been brought up and what their background is a kid could have no sense of what he or she is doing at 12 in a higher income neighborhood and could have a lot of an idea of what he or she is doing at the same age in a lower income neighborhood it just really depends on upbringing. This day an ae is probably the most difficult for girls because a lot of different views and ideas are being flooded into their minds and they ultimately have to choose what and how they are going to act and most of the time but not all a person will do what the people around them are doing.
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The way Juveniles are handled should be and is different. A juveniles brain is not done developing. the part of the brain the tells a person right and wrong is not done being developed. That is why teens always think "nothing can happen to me." People fail to realize how different males and females are. They also fail to realize how different Adults and Juveniles are. Someone can not treat a Juvenile the same way they treat an adult. Also i do not believe in punishing a young girl for something she can not control. For example sex trafficking. I honestly do not think any young girl or women is willing to do that.
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Girls accept more labels that others put upon them. Many juveniles "act out" because of situations they are faced with at home. Some of the reasons girls turn to prostitution comes back to their childhood. If a girl was labeled a tramp her whole life by her father or mother, it is likely that he or she will start to act like it. Sexual abuse can also cause someone to act out. Many girls that are sexually abused don't know who to turn too because most of the time it is a family member or close friend that is sexually abusing them, They might run away or try and find a boy to live with to try to temporary get out of that situation. This can completely consume a girl psychologically and might make her turn to drugs or other means to try to cope or "forget" what happened.
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What you wrote about when females turn to crimes and it starts with the family I thought was a very important factor to remember in juveniles females or any female crime for that matter. I also thought you did a good pointing out what happens when abuse or neglect happens how the girls will respond to those situations.
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Everything goes back to their childhood. If they saw drugs laying on the table, they will probably do the drugs. If they see their mom come home with a different guy every night, they will too. Everything comes back to their parents and how they were raised. I agree that sexual abuse can make you act out as well. They are just trying to forget what happened.
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I think that this article is correct by saying the juvenile girls need more help. This shouldn't just be applied to women. Men are also subject to this traumatiziation. Though the arrest for juvenile arrests are decreasing, the number of arrests for female juveniles are decreasing much slower than men. this means they are not getting the proper help and comfort that they need to prevent them from committing crimes. this needs to be changed.
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Juveniles should be handled differently than adults. Their brain is not done fully developing so they have more problems deciding between right and wrong. Another big influence on juveniles is their home life. Their home life can effect their decisions they make and can make them choose to make the wrong ones. They see things growing up thinking it right to do it but when its wrong and they end up making the same mistake an get in trouble for it. The female juvenile arrest rate is decreasing slower than the mens is. This could mean female could not be getting as much help once they get in trouble as the men do. dragons456
ReplyDeleteI agree.. What i don't understand is how at 13 yr old you can't consent to sex with a 24 yr old and he be imprisoned because he made u think he loved you and what you guys have is normal and but if a 13 yr old commit a crime with a 24 yr they both are at fault... That comes to show that the bran isn't developed in a child no matter what situation it is. In both cases the child is the victim.MotherOf4123
DeleteReading this kind of made me mad. The Columbia Training school is Mississippi " where girls were shackled for twelve hours a day for eight days to one month, hog-tied with chains, physically and sexually assaulted, isolated in windowless rooms, and denied adequate mental health treatment." How is this right? Yes, the girls in this facility were convicted. But, they are juveniles. They are there to serve their time and to learn, hopefully to better themselves. Not to be denied of mental health treatment. Maybe one reason they were there was because they ran away from home because a parent was sexually assaulting them, or abusing them in anyway. They got in trouble and now they were in that place getting the same thing done to them. They need to learn from what happened. They do not need to relive that. I am very happy that they closed that facility down.
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Women were first seen as too busy to commit crime. They were taking are of children and home such as washing dishes and ironing clothes. As the years went by women and young girls started to react to the different things occurring in their lives not so much as they got old but as juveniles. Most women that commit criminal behavior are victims of sexual assault and or child abuse from loves ones (dad, brother, uncle, cousins even intimate partners) As per this story they are going to jail prisons camps but still are enduring rape sexual assault and abuse. MotherOf4123
ReplyDeleteOne in five juveniles arrested for violent crimes were females. Most of the crimes that are committed by girls or even women were more for drug offenses, prostitution, or theft and burglary. It is just recently that females are becoming just as prevalent as men. Most of the females have dealt with abuse and violence at home. The girls are in an environment that is traumatizing to them and not helping them. They ended up in the system or committing crime because they have experienced this already that doesn’t mean it needs to continue elsewhere. The article states that across the U.S fails to address the needs of young women. Many girls need the programs, education, and support groups to allow them a better chance at life. To choose a different path and hopefully not make the same mistakes. CSI 123
ReplyDeleteShould we give women, who commit crimes, a break because of past abuse they may have endured. Although any form of abuse they might have put up with should be taken in to account, in the long run, they are responsible for their own actions. Does anyone ask if a male was abused in the past when he is being arrested. If women are going to catch a break for something, men should have just as much of a chance to do the same. The hammer of justice needs to be unisex.
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Female delinquency is increasingly gaining momentum and is starting to get quite out of hand. It is really quite interesting to think about because they say a lot of the time when a female commits a crime it is because she has been abused at a certain time in her life. If being abused is a direct link to the reason why they commit crime, and more crimes are being committed now more than ever that might mean that more females are being abused which means that not only is the female crime rate rising but it should affect the male crime rate as well. I also believe that in these days that females feel more equal to men and see themselves being able to do things just as well as a man should which is also another factor that could be affecting the crime rate. Even though the crime rate is shown to be increasing we never actually know the amount of crimes that are committed each year and for all we know crime could be higher than ever or lower than ever it just depends on how and if people are getting caught doing these deviant acts. Maybe females are not as good at concealing their crimes as men are. That could be an interesting topic to research.
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The criminal justice has its ups and its downs, and the low points have been traumatic for certain individuals such as juveniles.The juvenile girls that are arrested for nonviolent, self harming crimes like prostitution and drug abuse need a different punishment. Or maybe not even a punishment at all, more like a rehabilitation for their self harming behavior that usually occurs due to lack of parental guidance or a tough child hood. These female offenders should be looked after and set on the right path that they were not shown as a child.
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Prostitution and drug abuse are self harming crimes. If a crimes only victim is the perpetrator is it really a crime? For these kind of crimes, whether male or female, they should be put in rehabilitation and not prison. Those kind of crimes show that the person has lost control of their own life and putting them back on the straight and narrow, might be all they need to fix themselves. If a women commits a felony or violent crime they need to be punished just as severely as a man. The judicial system should be blind to gender and race. There should not be any "cutting them slack" for a criminal simply because they are female.
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I believe that there is a gender inequality that exists in the justice system. I believe many women are criminalized for actions that they had no control over for personal safety reasons. And with this whole idea of the victim being the offender, these crimes are only hurting the offender. With that in mind, do we need to be sentencing these people (men and women) to long prison sentences? I believe these individuals should be rehabilitated in halfway houses and with other similar services more than just being locked up. We have a chance to really help people but statistically it seems that we are just locking people up and releasing them under the assumtion that "hard time" did anything. Hopefully with pushed effort we can start to see a change with these issues. -Pack789
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