Chet J. Willer KGA2_Intake Assessment CJ161 Juvenile Justice G. Hicks 01 SEP 2010 WP Intake Assessment This narrative will be illustrated in three parts. The first part will describe the roles and functions of an intake officer within the juvenile justice system. The second part will illustrate my analysis and recommendations for each juvenile offender based upon each of the three scenarios provided in the course curriculum. Finally, I will compare the differences between the intake process of juvenile offenders and adult offenders. During the nineteenth century, John Augustus was credited as being the first probation officer after he convinced a court to release an intoxicated prisoner into his custody in attempt to rehabilitate the accused instead of sending him to jail.
Project Two Capstone May 25, 2012 Sex offenders are a major issue in the criminal justice field and have been for several decades. Over the last two decades more and more sex offenders have been released back into the community due to the overcrowding in the prisons. (Sex Offenders) Many judges, law enforcement and probation officers have tried to find ways to deter male sex offenders from reoffending. Three main ways that officials have tried to deter sex offenders is lessening the caseloads, chemical castration, and tougher supervision. Megan's Law is an informal name for laws in the United States requiring law enforcement authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders, which was created
Victim Impact Statement- A written account by a victim as to how a crime has taken a toll physically, emotionally, financially, and/or psychologically on said victim and victim’s family. Victim impact statements are considered by many states at the time of sentencing and at parole-board hearing. 26. Full Board Review- A statutory requirement that all members of a parole board review and vote on an early release from prison of individuals who have committed felony crimes, usually of a violent or sexual
Some consist of monitoring for a 24 hour period, some just check in periodically. Some check without warning. Some check with a phone call. House arrest is a repercussion that will be implicated after a person has broken the law; usually it is restrained for the person who has again and again been guilty of for instance, driving while under the influence of alcohol. Offenders are recommended in wearing a device that bypasses a signal to an electronic apparatus that is being monitored also known as electronic monitoring it is used as part of their verdict and it is worn on the ankle.
Probation and Other Community Sentencing Fikisha Broadnax Everest Online CCJ 1020-25 Probation and Other Community Sentencing Who can forget the Chris Brown and Rihanna incident back in 2009 where Chris Brown was charged with felony assault? After Brown pleads guilty to felony assault he was give a sentence of five years supervised probation and six months community service. He was also given a stay away order or better known as a restraining order requiring that he stay at least 50 yards from Rihanna except for industry events where it was reduces to only 10 yards (Siegel, 2012). Believe it or not this type of community sentencing is not uncommon. The prisons are dangerous and becoming increasingly overcrowded so, why would we
Sandra Riggs Prisoners of Parole Jeffery Rosen The article Prisoners of Parole conveyed a lot about a program implemented by a Judge and a Criminal Justice Professor at John Jay College in New York. The program being implemented focused on paroles mostly convicted of drug related offenses. The program was established with the primary focus of keeping paroles from violating their probation by using strict scare tactics, such as random drug testing and many other tactics that I will discuss further in this paper to make them think twice before violating their probation. After reading the article Prisoners of Parole, it never occurred to me that the “United States represents five percent of the world’s population and nearly twenty- five
NAME COURSE UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTOR Many are the times when juvenile have committed crimes, and there have always been minor delinquencies. In the last century or so, the constant development of our society and the juvenile cases have made life alternating changes in the minors’ lives and their cases. Juveniles began being tried as adults until it was pronounced unconstitutional to put a minor under a capital punishment. Rather it was declared that they (juveniles) were to be rehabilitated instead of being punished. There are several cases that altered how juveniles’ cases were carried in juvenile courts, but there are three major cases that can be credited with the juvenile justice development .Kent v. United States (1966), In re Gault (1967), and In re Winship (1970) are the three major cases that have been involved in the developments of juvenile justice while the rest of cases have
Judges sometimes specify the type of fine or service, but usually the order relates to the crime. If the crime is drunken driving, the defendant may be ordered to do community service work for an alcohol treatment program. Fines are typically paid directly to the county's general fund, which covers all taxpayer-supported services. Some of Judge Ruehlman's court orders specifically state that a defendant will “make a donation” to the literacy center “in lieu of fine.” Judge Ruehlman said ordering donations and community service for the literacy center makes sense because the nonprofit charity is a good cause that provides tutoring services, GED training and sometimes works with criminals on probation. (
Some states, such as Texas and Pennsylvania, are now requiring tougher sentencing. Texas has a mandatory 25-year sentence for a first conviction of raping a child under six, or using a weapon, causing bodily harm, or kidnapping a child aged seven to fourteen; the same sentence applies for repeat offenders. (Ramshaw, 2009) In 2006, Pennsylvania’s Governor Rendell signed bills to protect children, aid victims of sexual assault and toughen penalties for sex offenders. For example, the minimum sentence for raping a child is now 10 years, whereas, it used to be six; repeat offenders could face life in prison. (Newswire, 2006 ¶ 4) California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stated, “What kind of a society do we create here when you can not even let the children go out on the playground, and you always have to worry about them getting abducted and sexually molested…?” (Peckenpaugh, 2006 p. 2) With that said, on August 16, 2005 he signed the Sexual Predator Punishment and control Act, a bill that would have harsher punishments for certain sex crimes and create lifetime monitoring for convicted sex offenders released back into the community and to prevent registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools and parks.
Part II Argumentative Essay Carla Saliba July 12, 2014 Pre-Writing mental illness, Involuntary commitment, what is mental illness, how many people are diagnosed with a mental illness each year, history of mental illness, how cultures used to perceive mental illness, what steps have to happen to have someone committed, do the mentally ill have rights, do they have access to a lawyer, has any involuntary committed patient ever sued for the commitment, what are the laws concerning mental illness and involuntary commitment. Mental Illness: Involuntary Commitment, Is it Legal? Mental Disorder as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary, A mental or bodily condition marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind