In the duration of WW1 and WW2, French speaking Canadians were against being conscripted because they felt that there was no point in Canada fighting European wars. Whereas English speaking Canadians supported conscription, mostly to help out Britain in the battles. There was a choice here to either side with the English and conscript people or to side with the French and not go through with it. Canada went through with conscription. This proved to French Canadians that the Canadian government would support the English population whenever there was any form of a debate.(Legare, 2017, 1).
A final criticism is that it subjects sex offenders to indefinite punishments (Levenson,
While charging young offenders as adults could potentially protect people on the outside, children who are housed in the same facility as adults is not a good idea nor a good mix. “I watched Joe, who laughed like a little boy, but I saw the lines in his face and even the emergence of a few prematurely gray hairs on his head. I realized even while I laughed, that his unhappy childhood had been followed by unhappy, imprisoned teenage years followed by unhappy incarceration through young adulthood. All of the sudden, it occurred to me what a miracle it was that he could still laugh.” (Stevenson 217-224) Children in adult prisons are prone to rape, suicide and assault than in juvenile detention centers according to studies on juvenile suicide in adult institutions and youth facilities in the 1980s.
Chapter Eight of the book Flawed Criminal Justice Policies, authors take the closer look at the laws and faulty policy regarding the sex offenders. According to the book policy makers started the myriad laws to protect the public from the sex offenders with increased prison sentences, and restricting the residences to the violators. Today we have very similar situation when it comes to treatment of sexual offenders. The process starts with the sex offender being committed to the prison sentence, and lastly to being registered as a sex offender on many public websites, so that the people could distinguish who the sex offender is and where he/she lives. In this chapter we can learn about a lot of different statues that were made to protect people from the sex offenders.
Many people complain about how juveniles lack brain development and this should be an excuse. It makes others uncertain about trying them as adults since they lack decision-making and impulse control. Despite the lack of development, it’s ideal to recognize that for certain violent crimes, “there have to be consequences to actions” (Ford). Allowing juveniles to simply avoid adult punishment doesn’t help to promote public safety or give adolescents the responsibility they need in the future. But most people believe that juveniles still have room for rehabilitation and change.
But to what extent does accepting Roper, Graham, and Miller compel the acceptance of Danforth, Bellotti, and the parental notification and consent laws that were passed in their wake? To insist that juveniles be granted the same reproductive rights as adults is to take the position, at least implicitly, that adolescents have about the same capacity as adults to exercise those rights. But to insist upon differential treatment at sentencing for juvenile offenders is to take the position that juvenile offenders lack the same capacities as adults—capacities that would render them equally culpable for their conduct. Put another
The juvenile justice system of the 1800’s is much improved in today’s society and still undergoing changes to improve the system. Henceforth, it can be noticed that the juvenile justice system of the 1800’s until today has undergone drastic changes in such a way that offenders be it youth or minor are tried differently from the adults in all states These changes can be seen when the Juvenile Justice System was under the English Common Law, the colonial era, the industrial revolution era, and the Victorian era. There are more programs developed in today’s Juvenile Justice System, as well as young offenders with regards to age are processed separately, and are not necessarily referred to as chattel due to how profound the juvenile system has
In Identifying Child Molesters: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse by Recognizing the Patterns of the Offenders, Carla Van Dam points out that child sexual abuse is the only safety issue in which the main responsibility is currently placed upon children. Adults take the main responsibility in child road safety, for example, by building cross walks, passing laws to make school buses that are unloading children illegal to pass, and holding children’s hands while crossing the street. It would only make sense that adults establish similar boundaries and guidelines to prevent child sexual abuse. Child molesters typically are already-trusted individuals who put their victims and the adults who work with their victims through a grooming process that can be prevented by adults who work with children having knowledge of what constitutes sexual abuse and the grooming process. Child sexual abuse, it is important to be known, is still a prevalent problem among the United States that frequently ravages the lives of children.
The Juvenile Justice System was developed in the mid-1800’s. Before the 1800’s there was no clear legal status defined for youthful offenders. From birth to age five or six, children were identified as property, and from ages five or six until death, children were identified as an adult. Because children identified as an adult, they were subjected to the same rules and standards that adults where held too. Such standards include dealing with social and economic problems.
In this study it talks about the number of juveniles tried as sex offenders being risen over past years and juveniles committing 20-33% of all sexual offense. As the numbers have gone up most of criminal justice field attention has been more focused to better understand, monitor and treat juveniles. Most information about juvenile sex offenders are based on juveniles who have been tried for their crimes and from research organized with adult sex offenders. The purpose of this study is to understand the motives of juveniles adjudicated as sex offenders.
“Teenager’s Jailing Brings a Call to Fix Sex Offender Registries,” is an article written by Julie Bosman, and published by the New York Times Newspaper. The article is written about a 19-year-old named Zachery Anderson who is listed on a sex offender registry for life. The cause of this was talking to an under aged female through a dating app called “Hot or Not.” Although, Zachary Anderson did not know that the girl who had lied about her being 17, was actually 14, he later plead guilty to what had happened. Reading this newspaper article had me thinking about all sorts of things, whether it was about the fact that Zachary had sex with a female who was under the age of consent in Michigan or the fact that he was put on the sex offender registry.
The movie “Sleepers” is about four young boys between the ages 13-14 who commit a serious crime by accident. In this paper I will argue why the boys should be dealt with under the Restorative Justice System, and not under the Retributive Justice System. I will also talk about how they would be dealt with under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA). The four boys are clearly very upset with themselves because they let what they thought would be just a fun prank turn into a violent crime.
As reported by cogwriter.com, every 98 seconds in the U.S. someone is sexually assaulted. Each year, the number of victims is approximately increased by a heaping 321,500 people in the U.S., which one should keep in mind only includes those who are 12 years of age and older. According to research, 44% of rape occurs in children under 18, 15% are younger than 12, and another 29% of rape victims were from 12 to 17 years old. Without the proper justice system, these rates will continue to increase over time and no justice will be served. I propose for New York State to consider an extension of the minimum and maximum sentences for sex offenders.
Annotated bibliography Childress, S. (2016, June 2). More States Consider Raising the Age for Juvenile Crime. Retrieved from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/more-states-consider-raising-the-age-for-juvenile-crime/ More states are considering to raising the age for juvenile crimes before being tried as adult because young offender's mental capacity. The idea is to cut the cost of incarcerate young offender in adult prison and ensure offenders to receive proper education and specialized care to change their behavior. Putting children in adult prison does not deter crime.
Generally, it is agreed that a juvenile who committed a crime at a very tender age, the time spent in a cell will eventually mold his/her behavior later in the future. Apart from that, from the observation, it can be seen taking a child through the formal process of arrest and trial is generally not necessary for first time low-risk offenders, and can actually increase the likelihood that the child will re-offend through the process of labelling. It is agreed that, the more deeply a child advances through the criminal justice process, the more likely he/she is to self-identify with criminality, and therefore re-offend. In resolving this matter, the juvenile justice system of many legal systems
