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Juvenile Transfer Laws Essay

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Today in United State there are over 90,000 juvenile get charged with a crime every year and will be on or get on probation or parole, or be on house arrest. Youngest juvenile has been arrested and charged is 10 years of age and it is a first degree murder charged. Juvenile needs to know with there is a right and wrong and not to break the law. “Break the law, do the time”. Once juvenile get arrested and have a criminal records then they have to go though court and see the judge, then they have court order they have to follow. If juvenile want to violation there probation or any court order. The juvenile will have to do more jail time. Most juvenile do anyway because they think they can get away with it and will not learn their mistake from the first time. All state have a transfer laws alter the usual jurisdictional age boundaries for juvenile. State juvenile courts with delinquency jurisdiction handle cases in which …show more content…

Waiver thresholds are often quite low however in a few states that prosecutors may ask or do a waive virtually to and juvenile delinquency case. As a practical matter, even in these states waivers are likely to be relatively rare, Nationally the proportion of juvenile cases in which prosecutors seek a waiver is not known but waiver is granted in less than 1% of petitioned delinquency cases. Most states criminal prosecution renders a juvenile as adult forever. there is a special form of a transfer in 34 states for juveniles who have previously been prosecuted as adults. most of their "once adult, always adult" laws are comprehensives mandating criminal handing of all posttransfer offenses. however states have laws that apply only to prosttransfer felonies. some other state that juveniles involved to be prosecuted as adult to juveniles at 16 years of

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