Juvenile Miranda Rights For a long time juveniles were sentenced and tried like adults. In this essay I’m going to look at juvenile’s Miranda rights, what makes up a valid waiver of their rights, and what officers must do to make sure a juvenile’s confession will not be concealed in court. There wasn’t a way for juveniles to plead their own case. It wasn’t until the Industrialization Era that society developed the parens patriae concept. It tells you that the state could intervene to protect a child’s welfare (Caccarozzo). The juvenile court system that was developed was very different from the adult court. There’s more of an importance on helping the juvenile then in adult court. The reason why the court decided to give juveniles Miranda rights was because of the Gault decision. This is the most single important event in the history of juvenile justice because this guaranteed due process rights for juveniles. Those due process rights stated in the 14th amendment applied to juveniles as …show more content…
For example, in the case U.S. v. Burrous, the juvenile was arrested for armed robbery. One of the arresting officers asked the juvenile a couple times how his parents could be contacted. The juvenile didn’t know how to contact them. Also, the juvenile wasn’t cooperating and didn’t want to try and contact his parents himself. Since the officers didn’t have enough information to locate his parents, that means the juvenile voluntarily waived his Miranda rights and confessed. The court ruled that the officers made good efforts to locate the juvenile’s parents and that his confession was valid. To add to this, the juvenile’s parents must be contacted immediately because in U.S. v. John Doe, the officers contacted the parents but they waited 3 hours after the juvenile was taken into custody to contact them. It must be immediate for it to be