He has had two juvenile detention confinements. He has no involvement with any other court service unit. On April 3, 2013, Rayshaun was placed on indeterminate supervised probation after evidence was found sufficient on charges of larceny from a person and assault and battery. Rayshaun was ordered to complete 25 hours of community service work, write an apology letter to the victim, and complete the larceny program. According to court service
She reported that Sandusky had showered with her son in the Lasch Building. The investigation revealed no evidence of a crime. In a meeting with Sandusky, that included a caseworker from the Department of Public Welfare, the police detective advised Sandusky not to be showering with any other children (Crandall, 2014). The case was closed. The four officials were all informed of the police report and investigation status, but none reported it to the trustees or acted on it, they continued as if it did not happen.
They also interrogated Mr. Dassey illegally, they had excused him from the school he was attending and brought him down the Police department with no parent and/or attorney present. By law interviewing a juvenile they must have a parent and/or attorney present during questioning and they failed to contact either a parent or attorney. This had happened multiple times, they interviewed at the school also at the police station. Also when Brendan’s attorney had asked what had been said, the investigators withheld the information that Brendan had spoke about. They should've released the information to his attorney when requested.
Because JYC focuses on the teen demonstrating an understanding of why their actions were wrong and helping them fix it, repeat offenders are rare (only 6-9% of offenders repeat within 6 months). Being a part of JYC has made me aware that some kids in our community are faced with significant challenges beyond the specific offense that brought them to JYC. These challenges include substance or alcohol abuse by the minor or their family, sexual or physical violence, family instability, neglect, or a frequent changing of schools.
There were claims on the Manton case study that Dixon had prior history of engaging in sexual activity at his high school, which led Dixon to be suspended twice for the prior sexual acts. At the time of this incident, Dixon was 18 years old, and the “victim” was 15 (Manton, 2005). Following this factual information, Dixon at that time claimed that the sexual act was consensual and accused the girl of fabricating the story because of fear of her parents finding out and punishing her for sleeping with a black man (Manton, 2005). Several charges were suggested for Dixon which included: statutory rape, aggravated child molestation, rape, sexual battery, false imprisonment, and aggravated assist (Manton, 2005). Dixon was then acquitted of a majority of the charges and found Dixon guilty of statutory rape and aggravated child molestation (Manton,
In 1998, a mother reported that Sandusky had showered with her son in one of the buildings on campus, which was quietly swept under the rug (Crandall, et al., 2014). In 2001, a football assistant, Mike McQueary witnessed a sexual encounter between Sandusky and a 10 year old boy and reported it to Coach Paterno (Crandall, et al., 2014). Paterno went to the group of four men who were made aware of the situation in 1998 and together, they confronted Paterno (Crandall, et al., 2014). Instead of reporting him to authorities, they told him to refrain from bringing young men to the facilities and informed the director of Sandusky’s charitable organization as well (Crandall, et al., 2014). When President Spanier next met with the board of trustees, he intentionally withheld the information regarding Sandusky’s actions (Crandall, et al.,
Various reports suggest that he acted to persuade the men not to report what they knew to the criminal justice system but rather to have ‘empathy for Sandusky’ with no known mention of concern for the victims and their families (Alderfer, 2013). Their effectiveness in collectively denying allegations against Sandusky during this time lead the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Linda Kelly to comment retrospectively '' Those officials and administrators to whom it was reported did not report that incident to law enforcement or to any child protective agency. Their inaction, likely, allowed a child predator to continue to victimize children for many, many years” (Thamel, 2011).
As we mentioned earlier, the freshman’s mother mentioned to coach McElroy the fact that the upperclassman was calling her son those insulting names. This incident could have been foreseeable by the coaches, and possibly the administration, if the coach reported anything to the principal and athletic director. The Mepham High School football season was eventually cancelled and the three upperclassman were charged with “involuntary deviate sexual intercourse,” “aggravated assault,” “kidnapping,” “unlawful restraint,” “false imprisonment,” “terroristic threats,” “criminal coercion,” “simple assault,” “reckless endangering of another person,” “ethnic intimidation,” and “criminal conspiracy.” Judge Robert J. Conway chose to try the accused as juveniles.
The Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention and Protection Act (JJDPA) was established in 1974 and was the first federal law that dealt comprehensively with juvenile delinquency to improve the juvenile justice system and support state and local efforts at delinquency prevention. This paper will assess the JJDPA and summarize its purpose and implementation and enforcement. Next, there will be a discussion of the historical context of the policy; followed by a focus of the latent consequences. Finally there will be a vignette as to how this Act has affected a person or family as well as personal reflection toward the policy.
Tennessee has 759 probation and parole officers who are responsible for supervising 13,546 parolees and 57,234 probationers (Malcolm, 2014.) These demonstrate how unmanageable caseloads they have and how because of that can limit their abilities to effectively supervise offenders (Malcolm, 2014.) One way to achieve the goal of more probation and parole officers is to encourage the job and giving an incentive in receiving the job. Having more will allow lower caseloads and more opportunities to monitor and help the probationer and paroles to achieve outside of prison and hopefully not return to the
The juvenile justice system has made numerous of ethical issues when managing juvenile offenders. The issue with the juvenile justice system is the laws and rules that govern it. It has led to years of controversial debate over the ethical dilemmas of the juvenile corrections system, and how they work with youth offenders. The number of minors entering the juvenile justice system is increasing every month. The reasons why the juvenile justice system faces ethical dilemmas is important and needs to be addressed: (1) a vast proportion of juveniles are being tried and prosecuted as adults; (2) the psychological maturation of the juvenile to fully comprehend the justice system; and (3) the factors that contribute to minorities being adjudicated in the juvenile justice system are more likely than White offenders.
The F-JAS consists of a 73item questionnaire with a 7point Likert scale which covers each component mentioned earlier (Fleishman, 1975). The job of a probation officer at Bramwell young offenders’ unit has both aspects of person specific and job specific task in it as it such a broad task which covers a lot of different task and responsibilities. A probation officer will be faced with a lot of challenges everyday as they will have many different types of clients each day, not one the same as the other. Cognitive abilities in the F-JAS related to a probation officer as they need to have some knowledge and understanding of the criminal justice system. , a probation officer also needs interpersonal/social skills as they will be working one to one with the offender and as a team with the
I couldn 't be more grateful for the opportunity to experience Taylor County Juvenile Probation Department. Unfortunately, my internship did not start until the end of March due to a departmental audit. However, the experience and exposure I got within a month was enough to give the insight and information I needed in order to truly understand the job of a juvenile probation officer. What I had previous read in educational books regarding juvenile probation does not compare to the knowledge I gained when working with the Taylor County Juvenile Probation Department. During this month I had exposure to department policies, juvenile detention and probation, court hearings, intake, and the Taylor County Learning Center (TCLC).
Introduction: Researchers have highlighted that commitment has a great impact on the successful performance of an organization. According to Givens (2008), for developing organizational commitment among employees; employers or consult authorities should try to develop motivation of their employees to do something, and develop the awareness that they do have the ability to achieve the goals. Furthermore, Teachers should make their employees imagine appealing future outcomes. It reflects that for organizational commitment a person must have the ability to understand his abilities and must have positive ideas about future outcomes. Building on Givens’ argument, the present study is an empirical effort to examine positive psychology, we define
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