With the assumption from many that juveniles and adults should be treated differently within the law, the court's systems have maintained their separation to protect individual’s rights. With the separation of the court's juveniles at times can are placed between the two until all the evidence is accumulated whereas adults go straight to general or circuit court. The juvenile courts have many things that differ from adult courts but the most obvious ones are that they strictly revolve around delinquents, status offenders, dependent and neglected children and other cases that revolve around custody or child support. With the numbers rising each year as youths enter the court system the Bureau of Justice Assistances states “Approximately 107,000 youth (younger than 18) are …show more content…
Once everything has been finalized unlike adult criminal proceeding juvenile court records are often closed to members of the public and records are often confidential. The only way to have access to one's records would be to ask for the court's permission by making a showing of good cause, and even then, the court may have the authority to deny the request in its discretion, however, there have been at times when juveniles are sentenced as adults their records have the potential to become public knowledge. So from insignificant to moderate crimes such as theft, burglary, or destruction of property individual’s will often find themselves placed in local facilities while other in the past would find themselves in adult prisons for violent and other serious