It is a bit shocking to me that it took so long for our nation to recognize that most juvenile delinquents are able to change and grow out of their delinquent behavior, if given the chance. Montgomery vs. Louisiana was the Supreme Court case that gave hope to many imprisoned stating that, "children who commit even heinous crimes are capable of change." This is the case that says it is basically vile to sentence a child to a life sentence without the chance of parole. Maybe it is just the psychology lover in me, but I think that it is so incredibly obvious that a child, aside from maybe a diagnosed sociopath, is not mentally developed enough to understand the consequences of most of their actions. Not only that, but the amount of change a person goes through just between the ages of 10 and 18 is immense. A young child, that has committed a crime, should never have the option of parole taken from them if sentenced to life. I have said it before and I will say it again, rehab, rehab, rehab. Not only in juveniles, but especially in juveniles I think we should focus less on hard time and focus more on what matters, counselling and rehabilitating these young offenders, because a change in mindset is much more effective than the trauma that generally comes with the incarceration of children. We want these delinquent juveniles to learn from their mistakes, not just be labeled by them. -psych001
The U.S. Supreme Court has given hope to potentially thousands of inmates sentenced as children to life without the possibility of parole. The Sentencing Project has been involved in research and advocacy around the extent to which JLWOP sentences have been imposed in the U.S., the only country in the world that allows such a sentence for children. 1\2 of the people in federal prisons are serving time for a drug offense. Incarceration has increased by more than 500% in the last 40 years. 2.2 million people are in prison or in jail in the united states. With racial disparity 1 in 10 black men in his thirties is in prison or jail on any given day. American Indian youth are three times as likely as while youth to be held on a juvenile detention facility. The number of youth committed to juvenile facilities has dropped by 50% since peaking in 2000. There are more than 4,00 youth incarcerated in adult prisons and jails. These are statistics within this article. I thought that this webpage\article was different, I don’t think I’m a fan. It had good material but I don’t think there was enough. -PB001
Reading this article, it is good to hear that the court thinks children are capable to change. Hearing this gives me hope that more and more children will stay out if the adult court systems and adult prison systems. In this article it states that most juvenile delinquents were victimized in their younger ages, to me this is the reason they are doing illegal activities. Also, most of these children come from extreme poverty and sometimes they are forced to steal things to help them survive, even though it is wrong there is no need to put these kids in adult prisons where they could be assaulted further. I believe that no juvenile should be charged with life in prison without the possibility of parole, unless they are a mass murderer or someone even more dangerous. I say this because everyone has a chance to change, especially children. When kids are young they do things, they do not mean and hang around with people they should not hang out with. I believe most juvenile crimes are outcomes of peer pressure and the want to be accepted by others. I am glad the court now believes that children can change and I believe giving these kids a second chance will prove successful in the future. -LW001
This article talks about banning a law that has been going on for many years now. The Supreme Court puts a ban to mandatory life without parole for juveniles. Before I even talk about how much of a issue that life without parole affects juveniles. We first need to talk about how this affected the ones that have already been in the system. It is good that the supreme court has put a stop to this law. But what are they going to do for the people who lives have been destroyed by this law. They have missed out on so many life experiences. They cant get that time back that they lost. Especially all the trauma they have experienced while in there. Some of them probably thought there life was over. It says in the article that "We also found significant racial disparities, extreme poverty, and poor legal counsel associated with the imposition of life sentences for juveniles." Which I understand because when most kids get in trouble typically its because they stole something because they liked and wanted it, maybe they were poor and couldn't afford it, and or maybe there friends influenced them to. But why should we over punish a kid who just wants the basic needs. If its a petty crime I think the US should try to help that family. Batman001
Back in 2016 the supreme court decided to make ban on mandatory life sentencing without parole for juveniles which gave hope to many inmates in prison. It’s surprising to me that we waited this long to put a ban on such a harsh sentence, especially being the only country that actually allows this sentence for children. What is not surprising is the patterns that connect juveniles to this type of sentence like extreme poverty, poor legal representation, and racial disparities. In most cases, the children that get into this type of trouble with the law, then are labeled as juveniles because they were victimized first which led them to this type of habitual behavior. It’s hard to think about people being sucked into a life sentence for something they did one time when they were a child or a teenager. The article talks about how the numbers for juveniles sentenced to LWOP would be lower if the mandatory minimum sentences were so popularized during the 1990’s. It’s confusing to me that the mandatory minimum sentences were so generally used and liked that they would have to lean towards a harsher sentence for juveniles. We hope people can change for the better so that they don’t have to spend the rest of their life in a cell. -HL001
Simply put, looking at these two articles we are looking at sentencing juveniles to life without parole. In one of the articles it is pointed out that Iowa Courts became the 19th to reject life without parole for juveniles/youth under the age of 18. They did this because Iowa is saying that life without parole for juveniles amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. There was a Supreme Court case as well (with a 6-3 ruling of Montgomery v. Louisiana), written by Justice Kennedy, the Court States that, “children who commit even heinous crimes are capable of change.” In 2010, the Sentencing Project released their findings from a nationwide survey of nearly 1,600 individuals serving these sentences. They found that the youth that committed crimes had experienced victimization themselves AND there were significant racial disparities, extreme poverty, and poor legal counsel. I am glad that the supreme court made this decision as well as states taking a step up before sentencing juveniles to life without parole. Children are at a different stage of brain development than adults and are more susceptible to doing bad things. They don’t know any better and they follow by example and by what they are shown. There are many risk factors and given enough without a buffer they will most likely display delinquent behavior. Instead of sentencing these children to JLWOP they should be taken to rehabilitation services or short time detention with proper care. Children will eventually age out of crime once they burn out and get tired of being sentenced. -TanLionNala001
After reading this article, I found that in January 2016, the U.S Supreme Court gave hope to potentially thousands of inmates sentenced as children to life without the possibility of parole. In six to three ruling, the Court believes that children who commit even heinous crimes are capable of change. Which in my own opinion is true, because they are young when they did such a crime. The U.S is the only country in the world that imposed such a sentence for children, life without the possibility of parole. Sentencing Project is an organization that advocate and research about this kind of sentences. They found that in 2010, there are nearly 1,600 individuals serving these sentences. Extreme poverty, inadequate legal counsel, and racial disparities are the main reason for these crimes. In the 90s, the mandatory sentences of life without parole went up for juveniles. I also found out that incarceration went up to 500 percent in the last forty years, and there are 2.2 million people who are serving time in jails and prison in the U.S alone. 1/2 of the people in federal prison do serve time because of the drug offense. I did find that one in every ten black men that are in their thirties end up in jail or prison at any given day. American Indian youth are three times to end up in Juvenile Detention Facility than their white counterpart. Since peaking in 2000, the number of youths that committed to juvenile facilities has dropped by 50 percent, but there are more than 4,000 youth end up being incarcerated in adult jails and prisons. In all, I am glad that the U.S Supreme Court did find that children can change after what they did and capable of giving a second chance to be better. -Cancun001
On January 25, 2016 the Supreme Court banishes life without parole for juveniles. It is incredibly shocking that the United States is the only country to allow juvenile life is prison without parole. Racial disparities, intense poverty, and not the best legal counsel is often a factor in these children sentenced to LWOP. During the “superpredator era” in the 1990’s the percentage of juveniles receiving mandatory life sentences heightened quite substantially. Unfortunately we had been using mandatory minimum sentences so frequently that otherwise the juveniles with LWOP would have been significantly lower during the 1990’s. Over time we have progressed and looked at juveniles more as children rather than adults in the correctional system. Children are not fully developed at the time they commit a crime, therefore we should not punish a child their entire life without a second chance. In the case Montgomery v. Louisiana, the court stated in a 6-3 ruling that “children who commit even heinous crimes are capable of change.” We must give faith to these children to do better and not punish them so harshly. What if that was your child facing a life to prison, would you feel as though they are worthy of a second chance? -KF001
The ruling made by the supreme court which supports the idea that children are still capable of change is quite positive. The risk factors of a juvenile to become delinquent can be quite high depending on where he or she is from and how they grew up. This is a positive change to be seen for our justice system both on the juvenile and adult side of the system because when juveniles commit some crimes it is not by their own free will. For a child to lose their chance of parole for a crime they committed at a young age seems counter productive because of how we are currently reshaping our justice system. The reform is based around rehabilitation and that should not only be limited to just adults who violate our countries laws, it should also include our juveniles. Prisoners who have been incarcerated for decades generally lose any and all interest in re offending and that may be the same with juveniles who are incarcerated at a very young age. If we are able to figure out how to deter habitual behavior at a young age and lean towards rehabilitation, we may be able to lower our future incarceration rates even further from where they are currently. -Blues001
The Supreme Court ruling on getting rid of life sentences without parole for juveniles is a huge positive. The fact that the kids who may have had a huge outside influence or maybe just got caught up in something has a second chance. Taking parole away from a kid makes no sense, a person with so much life left can change for the better. A large number of these kids have had it rough from the beginning and may have been exposed to a lot of risk factors early on in life so they become more likely to offend. Now that the juvenile system is more based around rehabilitation rather than punishment we are seeing lower rates if recidivism in juveniles. Hoping that while they are in they system that their desire to offend lessens because of the past experiences that they have had. The main goal now is to lower the number of juveniles that are incarcerated now and in the future.-Purdue001
while i started to look at the pages to see what there is to look through the first thing that caught my eye was the supreme court makes retroactive ban on mandatory life without parole, i thought to my self what is parole again i look back in my notes to see that it means to be is the early release of a prisoner who agrees to abide by certain length of period. just looking at all the topics made me think back to all the notes that we had in class trying to remember if we took anything to compare with them all. i feel like the laws that are made throughout juvenile delinquency is very well maintained but with them looking into the cases and gathering info about what should be changed helps with how serious that laws can get beretta001
What caught my eye about this article was reading “children who commit even the most heinous crimes are capable of change”. This is a positive change in thought process in regards to juveniles. It was nice to read that the supreme court acknowledges that children are different in ways that make mandatory life sentences completely inappropriate. Its interesting to see that the problems that are being presented in the classroom are changing right before our eyes. Something else that caught my eye was that those who were serving life sentences said in a national survey that they were victimized as a child as well. This this article shows other correlations to delinquency that were discussed in class; such as poverty. These people serving life sentences changed for the better during their time in prison. This goes to show that locking a child up for life is wrong on all accounts. Let the juvenile justice system deal with juveniles instead of taking a person’s life away. Something else that caught my eye was how certain movements and fear-based agendas can lead to such things a Juvenile life without parole. ~PJWB001
It is a bit shocking to me that it took so long for our nation to recognize that most juvenile delinquents are able to change and grow out of their delinquent behavior, if given the chance. Montgomery vs. Louisiana was the Supreme Court case that gave hope to many imprisoned stating that, "children who commit even heinous crimes are capable of change." This is the case that says it is basically vile to sentence a child to a life sentence without the chance of parole. Maybe it is just the psychology lover in me, but I think that it is so incredibly obvious that a child, aside from maybe a diagnosed sociopath, is not mentally developed enough to understand the consequences of most of their actions. Not only that, but the amount of change a person goes through just between the ages of 10 and 18 is immense. A young child, that has committed a crime, should never have the option of parole taken from them if sentenced to life. I have said it before and I will say it again, rehab, rehab, rehab. Not only in juveniles, but especially in juveniles I think we should focus less on hard time and focus more on what matters, counselling and rehabilitating these young offenders, because a change in mindset is much more effective than the trauma that generally comes with the incarceration of children. We want these delinquent juveniles to learn from their mistakes, not just be labeled by them. -psych001
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. Supreme Court has given hope to potentially thousands of inmates sentenced as children to life without the possibility of parole. The Sentencing Project has been involved in research and advocacy around the extent to which JLWOP sentences have been imposed in the U.S., the only country in the world that allows such a sentence for children. 1\2 of the people in federal prisons are serving time for a drug offense. Incarceration has increased by more than 500% in the last 40 years. 2.2 million people are in prison or in jail in the united states. With racial disparity 1 in 10 black men in his thirties is in prison or jail on any given day. American Indian youth are three times as likely as while youth to be held on a juvenile detention facility. The number of youth committed to juvenile facilities has dropped by 50% since peaking in 2000. There are more than 4,00 youth incarcerated in adult prisons and jails. These are statistics within this article. I thought that this webpage\article was different, I don’t think I’m a fan. It had good material but I don’t think there was enough. -PB001
ReplyDeleteReading this article, it is good to hear that the court thinks children are capable to change. Hearing this gives me hope that more and more children will stay out if the adult court systems and adult prison systems. In this article it states that most juvenile delinquents were victimized in their younger ages, to me this is the reason they are doing illegal activities. Also, most of these children come from extreme poverty and sometimes they are forced to steal things to help them survive, even though it is wrong there is no need to put these kids in adult prisons where they could be assaulted further. I believe that no juvenile should be charged with life in prison without the possibility of parole, unless they are a mass murderer or someone even more dangerous. I say this because everyone has a chance to change, especially children. When kids are young they do things, they do not mean and hang around with people they should not hang out with. I believe most juvenile crimes are outcomes of peer pressure and the want to be accepted by others. I am glad the court now believes that children can change and I believe giving these kids a second chance will prove successful in the future. -LW001
ReplyDeleteThis article talks about banning a law that has been going on for many years now. The Supreme Court puts a ban to mandatory life without parole for juveniles. Before I even talk about how much of a issue that life without parole affects juveniles. We first need to talk about how this affected the ones that have already been in the system. It is good that the supreme court has put a stop to this law. But what are they going to do for the people who lives have been destroyed by this law. They have missed out on so many life experiences. They cant get that time back that they lost. Especially all the trauma they have experienced while in there. Some of them probably thought there life was over. It says in the article that "We also found significant racial disparities, extreme poverty, and poor legal counsel associated with the imposition of life sentences for juveniles." Which I understand because when most kids get in trouble typically its because they stole something because they liked and wanted it, maybe they were poor and couldn't afford it, and or maybe there friends influenced them to. But why should we over punish a kid who just wants the basic needs. If its a petty crime I think the US should try to help that family. Batman001
ReplyDeleteBack in 2016 the supreme court decided to make ban on mandatory life sentencing without parole for juveniles which gave hope to many inmates in prison. It’s surprising to me that we waited this long to put a ban on such a harsh sentence, especially being the only country that actually allows this sentence for children. What is not surprising is the patterns that connect juveniles to this type of sentence like extreme poverty, poor legal representation, and racial disparities. In most cases, the children that get into this type of trouble with the law, then are labeled as juveniles because they were victimized first which led them to this type of habitual behavior. It’s hard to think about people being sucked into a life sentence for something they did one time when they were a child or a teenager. The article talks about how the numbers for juveniles sentenced to LWOP would be lower if the mandatory minimum sentences were so popularized during the 1990’s. It’s confusing to me that the mandatory minimum sentences were so generally used and liked that they would have to lean towards a harsher sentence for juveniles. We hope people can change for the better so that they don’t have to spend the rest of their life in a cell. -HL001
ReplyDeleteSimply put, looking at these two articles we are looking at sentencing juveniles to life without parole. In one of the articles it is pointed out that Iowa Courts became the 19th to reject life without parole for juveniles/youth under the age of 18. They did this because Iowa is saying that life without parole for juveniles amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. There was a Supreme Court case as well (with a 6-3 ruling of Montgomery v. Louisiana), written by Justice Kennedy, the Court States that, “children who commit even heinous crimes are capable of change.” In 2010, the Sentencing Project released their findings from a nationwide survey of nearly 1,600 individuals serving these sentences. They found that the youth that committed crimes had experienced victimization themselves AND there were significant racial disparities, extreme poverty, and poor legal counsel. I am glad that the supreme court made this decision as well as states taking a step up before sentencing juveniles to life without parole. Children are at a different stage of brain development than adults and are more susceptible to doing bad things. They don’t know any better and they follow by example and by what they are shown. There are many risk factors and given enough without a buffer they will most likely display delinquent behavior. Instead of sentencing these children to JLWOP they should be taken to rehabilitation services or short time detention with proper care. Children will eventually age out of crime once they burn out and get tired of being sentenced.
ReplyDelete-TanLionNala001
After reading this article, I found that in January 2016, the U.S Supreme Court gave hope to potentially thousands of inmates sentenced as children to life without the possibility of parole. In six to three ruling, the Court believes that children who commit even heinous crimes are capable of change. Which in my own opinion is true, because they are young when they did such a crime. The U.S is the only country in the world that imposed such a sentence for children, life without the possibility of parole. Sentencing Project is an organization that advocate and research about this kind of sentences. They found that in 2010, there are nearly 1,600 individuals serving these sentences. Extreme poverty, inadequate legal counsel, and racial disparities are the main reason for these crimes. In the 90s, the mandatory sentences of life without parole went up for juveniles. I also found out that incarceration went up to 500 percent in the last forty years, and there are 2.2 million people who are serving time in jails and prison in the U.S alone. 1/2 of the people in federal prison do serve time because of the drug offense. I did find that one in every ten black men that are in their thirties end up in jail or prison at any given day. American Indian youth are three times to end up in Juvenile Detention Facility than their white counterpart. Since peaking in 2000, the number of youths that committed to juvenile facilities has dropped by 50 percent, but there are more than 4,000 youth end up being incarcerated in adult jails and prisons. In all, I am glad that the U.S Supreme Court did find that children can change after what they did and capable of giving a second chance to be better. -Cancun001
ReplyDeleteOn January 25, 2016 the Supreme Court banishes life without parole for juveniles. It is incredibly shocking that the United States is the only country to allow juvenile life is prison without parole. Racial disparities, intense poverty, and not the best legal counsel is often a factor in these children sentenced to LWOP. During the “superpredator era” in the 1990’s the percentage of juveniles receiving mandatory life sentences heightened quite substantially. Unfortunately we had been using mandatory minimum sentences so frequently that otherwise the juveniles with LWOP would have been significantly lower during the 1990’s. Over time we have progressed and looked at juveniles more as children rather than adults in the correctional system. Children are not fully developed at the time they commit a crime, therefore we should not punish a child their entire life without a second chance. In the case Montgomery v. Louisiana, the court stated in a 6-3 ruling that “children who commit even heinous crimes are capable of change.” We must give faith to these children to do better and not punish them so harshly. What if that was your child facing a life to prison, would you feel as though they are worthy of a second chance?
ReplyDelete-KF001
The ruling made by the supreme court which supports the idea that children are still capable of change is quite positive. The risk factors of a juvenile to become delinquent can be quite high depending on where he or she is from and how they grew up. This is a positive change to be seen for our justice system both on the juvenile and adult side of the system because when juveniles commit some crimes it is not by their own free will. For a child to lose their chance of parole for a crime they committed at a young age seems counter productive because of how we are currently reshaping our justice system. The reform is based around rehabilitation and that should not only be limited to just adults who violate our countries laws, it should also include our juveniles. Prisoners who have been incarcerated for decades generally lose any and all interest in re offending and that may be the same with juveniles who are incarcerated at a very young age. If we are able to figure out how to deter habitual behavior at a young age and lean towards rehabilitation, we may be able to lower our future incarceration rates even further from where they are currently. -Blues001
ReplyDeleteThe Supreme Court ruling on getting rid of life sentences without parole for juveniles is a huge positive. The fact that the kids who may have had a huge outside influence or maybe just got caught up in something has a second chance. Taking parole away from a kid makes no sense, a person with so much life left can change for the better. A large number of these kids have had it rough from the beginning and may have been exposed to a lot of risk factors early on in life so they become more likely to offend. Now that the juvenile system is more based around rehabilitation rather than punishment we are seeing lower rates if recidivism in juveniles. Hoping that while they are in they system that their desire to offend lessens because of the past experiences that they have had. The main goal now is to lower the number of juveniles that are incarcerated now and in the future.-Purdue001
ReplyDeletewhile i started to look at the pages to see what there is to look through the first thing that caught my eye was the supreme court makes retroactive ban on mandatory life without parole, i thought to my self what is parole again i look back in my notes to see that it means to be is the early release of a prisoner who agrees to abide by certain length of period. just looking at all the topics made me think back to all the notes that we had in class trying to remember if we took anything to compare with them all. i feel like the laws that are made throughout juvenile delinquency is very well maintained but with them looking into the cases and gathering info about what should be changed helps with how serious that laws can get beretta001
ReplyDeleteWhat caught my eye about this article was reading “children who commit even the most heinous crimes are capable of change”. This is a positive change in thought process in regards to juveniles. It was nice to read that the supreme court acknowledges that children are different in ways that make mandatory life sentences completely inappropriate. Its interesting to see that the problems that are being presented in the classroom are changing right before our eyes. Something else that caught my eye was that those who were serving life sentences said in a national survey that they were victimized as a child as well. This this article shows other correlations to delinquency that were discussed in class; such as poverty. These people serving life sentences changed for the better during their time in prison. This goes to show that locking a child up for life is wrong on all accounts. Let the juvenile justice system deal with juveniles instead of taking a person’s life away. Something else that caught my eye was how certain movements and fear-based agendas can lead to such things a Juvenile life without parole. ~PJWB001
ReplyDelete