...In Teenage Crimes Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Teenage Crimes 4 In Pakistan 4 Background 5 Peer Pressure: 5 Poverty: 5 Poor Parenting Skills 5 Findings 6 Survey 6 Interview 6 Small Scale Implementations 7 Conclusion 8 Bibliography 9 Charts……………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Appendix 11 Executive Summary Teenage crimes as we all know are those crimes which are performed by people aging between 13-19 years old. These crimes are performed all over the world but unfortunately these crimes have been on the rise in Pakistan for the last 5 years. My objective was to find out who are responsible for the increase in teenage crimes. For this purpose I Conducted a survey from our fellow students and also interviewed a Deputy Supretendant of Police to get his views about this particular issue. The results we found showed that teenage crimes are a reason behind many problems of our country and steps should be taken to reduce this as soon as possible otherwise condition of our country will become much worse because a country cannot develop without its youth. “The Youth of today are the future of tomorrow and a country cannot prosper and develop without the contribution of its youth”:- (Bill Gates) Introduction Teenage Crimes Teenage Crimes or Juvenile...
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...Topic: Drinking Age in the United States Specific Purpose: to motivate my audience to protest for lowering the Drinking Age from 21 Central Idea: Lowering the legal alcohol consumption age will reduce the rate of underage drinking charges: INTRODUCTION I. The Attention Step A. 10.4 million kids reported drinking last year so obviously this law is not working. The average teen begins drinking at 14, seven years before they can legally drink. 1. I’m sure at least a few of you have taken some of your parents alcohol without them knowing about it or have participated in underage drinking at some point in your life up to now and if not you might in college. 2. If you haven’t and don’t plan on it because it is illegal, just know that if the legal drinking age were changed, one would have nothing to think about. Transition: So why do we need to lower the drinking age? II. The Need Step: A. Since the drinking age was raised teens have tended to drink in more of an abusive manor. 1. In 2011 in the United States, 13,000 underage kids died from alcohol poisoning. The next closest country had just 5,000. 2. If the number of underage drinking charges in America reduces, then the overall rate of crime in America will drop therefore making America a safer country. 3. A recent Kansas City newspaper asked 8,726 students if the drinking age should be lowered. Out of 8,726 asked 7,992 said yes B. Underage kids want to consume alcohol and them not being of legal age will not be enough...
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...interested in crime control as they were in social work. Admittedly, some reformers were motivated by a desire to save growing numbers of poor and homeless children from the streets of America’s cities. Others, however, were mainly interested in removing the legal obstacles that prevented criminal courts from dealing effectively with young hoodlums” http://www.urban.org/publications/307452.html The Juvenile Justice System was founded on the principle that “children are fundamentally different from adults, and that the justice system that deals with them should reflect these differences” (Setting the stage). Two themes make the system: the welfare of young offenders and the protection of public safety. “State legislatures are responsible for establishing juvenile courts and for framing their legal responsibilities. Thus, state lawmakers have the power to decide who falls under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and who remains under the jurisdiction of the criminal court. At one time, the issue was relatively simple. States merely decided at what age an individual was to be fully responsible for his or her criminal behavior. Offenders above that age were tried as adults in criminal court; those below it went to a juvenile court. Most jurisdictions set this age at 18” http://www.urban.org/publications/307452.html Maximum age: “16 states statutorily set the lowest age of juvenile court jurisdiction. • North Carolina having the youngest age which is 6 • MD, MA and NY= age 7 • Arizona=...
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...more arbitrary. For instance, Professor Laub and Professor Sampson came across other definitions, such as Farrington and Hawkins (1991) and how they define desistance as having no conviction between the age 21 and 32, following a conviction before 21. Another study they found was that of Weitekamp and Kerner (1994), and this explained how together they have both tried to unravel various workings in the area of desistance. They have defined the desistance as the period of time when the criminal or delinquent actions ends permanently. Comparing this notion, they define suspension as an interruption in offending activities. Laub and Sampson also showed how Maruna (2001), points out that the fore mentioned researchers, in addition to their definitions, view desistance as a developmental progression, and not as a happening; which means the rate of offending recurring decelerates and also becomes far less appealing. In a documentary by Allen Weaver, on desistance, he spoke about Laub and Sampson’s study, about a research that was conducted in the 1940’s as part of a Harvard University study on delinquent boys. Laub and Sampson posed the questions; “Where are they now?” and “How did their lives turn out?” Laub and Sampson found that nearly all of the delinquents desisted from crime, some faster and some slower. When Professor John H. Laub was interviewed for the documentary, he stated that he and Professor Sampson had indentified certain turning...
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...Crime and punishment have gone hand in hand since the cavemen roamed the Earth. Though times have progressively changed what punishments ae deemed as just, there was a time when punishments were cruel, but far from being unusual. Some of the most notable periods of exceptional punishments include the age of the Greeks and Romans, the Middle Ages, and the Age of Enlightenment. With time there definitely comes change and luckily, for criminals, this saying is especially true when it comes to change in what punishments have become acceptable. The first, and most imaginative, when it comes to punishments, being focused on will be the Greeks and Romans. Though the Romans were known to make a spectacle of all public punishments, they also had an order to their chaos. They did not just strap people to the wheel of death because it was Tuesday; there was actually procedures and protocol they had to...
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...who has not completed eighteen years of age. A boy or girl under eighteen years of age is a “juvenile” according to the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA), 2000. Earlier, according to the JJA, 1986, the age of boys and girls were different, but however, the JJA 2000 which repealed the JJA, 1986, brought the age of male juveniles at par with the female juveniles. Another reason for increasing the age of male juveniles by the JJA 2000 is to bring the Indian juvenile legislation into conformity with the ‘United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)’. Article 1 of CRC states for the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. Therefore, both the boys and girls below the age of eighteen years enjoy the protection of juvenile legislation. The term ‘children in conflict with the law’ as stated by the United Nation’s Children Fund refers to anyone under 18 who comes into contact with the justice system as a result of being suspected or accused of committing an offence. In India, the JJA, 2000 defines “juvenile in conflict with law” as a juvenile who is alleged to have committed an offence and has not completed eighteenth year of age as on the date of commission of such offence. Juvenile Crime Law is a subcategory of Juvenile Law. Although a type of criminal law, juvenile crime law only deals with under-age individuals, who are treated very differently...
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...of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment#In_specific_countries). The death penalty does serve as a deterrent crime. Crime rates in the Unites States are so high for many reasons. One reason being people are stupid enough to continue doing crimes and building up a sentence that they may not know exists, but does. The punishment of the crime depends on how bad the crime is. The death penalty applies to crimes like murder; not crimes like stealing a sucker or hitting a woman or severely beating someone. If you kill someone and maybe someone else, then you may be more likely to serve the death penalty. Some countries that believe in the death penalty are Iran, China, Singapore, Afghanistan, India, Japan, and several other countries throughout the whole world. “Capital punishment in China is currently administered for a variety of crimes, but the vast majority of executions are for cases of either aggravated murder or large scale drug trafficking. The People's Republic of China executes the highest number of people annually, although other countries (such as Iran or Singapore) have higher execution rates per capita. Article 49 in the Chinese criminal code explicitly forbids the death penalty for offenders who are under the age of 18 at the time of the crime. In Japan, prosecutors push for the death penalty only in the...
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...delinquent is a person who is found to have committed a crime; they are usually under the age of 18. There are many crimes that are reported each year all over the world that involve these young offenders, but here in Texas, the crime rates have decreased and this could be because only the juveniles who commit felony crimes are held at state- run facilities. As of 2011, the total arrests made each year are estimated to be around 99,114, this is only involving juveniles. Amongst all the crimes, ranging from vandalism, to burglary, sex offenses, to drug abuse, it seems as if the most common crime that is recognized is theft/larceny. The term “larceny” is used when a juvenile willingly trespasses and leaves with personal property. Theft is basically stealing and taking something that doesn’t belong to you. These juveniles do not necessarily have to steal from stores, or break into a home and steal property for them to be charged. Other types of theft/larceny also include, stealing bicycles from other kids and stealing from backpacks or lockers at school. All this is considered to be theft and these young adults can get into a lot of trouble for these wrong doings. If convicted of larceny, a juvenile can face jail time, fines, and this could remain on his or her records for the rest of their life. It is believed that 16 years of age is the most common age that is reported in the state of Texas when it comes to crimes being committed and there are various reasons as to why...
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...October 21, 2015 Adult Crime Doesn’t Mean Adult Time In “Adult Crime, Adult Time” published in the Washington Post on March 29, 1998, Linda J. Collier argues that there should be a less lenient juvenile system. She reasons that as of 1998, since 1965 the number of 12-14 year olds arrested for committing violent crimes has tripled and that the juvenile system was “developed with truants, vandals, and petty thieves in mind, but not appropriate for the violent juvenile offenders of today”(qtd. Collier). She proceeds to argue that detaining a rapist or murderer in a juvenile facility until the age of 18 or 21 isn’t at all enough of a severe punishment. Collier demands that children under the age...
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...The Uniform Crime Reporting Program and Understanding the Victims Name: Institution: Uniform Crime Reporting is a program that is a national wide statistical effort which comprises over 15,000 state, city, and county laws enforcement agencies that report data on criminal offences voluntarily (Schmalleger, 2006). This data is later forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation directly or through the state-level Uniform Crime Reporting program from the local law enforcement agencies. The offences in the program are divided into two categories, part 1 and part 2 for data reporting purposes. The part 1 offences reported by the Uniform Crime Reporting program are categorized into two groups which include property and violent crimes and later used to measure the scope and level of crime rate in the country (FBI, 2004). The crimes reported in this part are called index crimes because reports the crimes that are very serious and they have a tendency of being reported reliably compared to others. These crimes are mostly reported directly to the police and not the separate agencies which do not contribute to the UCR program. These crimes include; forcible rape, aggravated assault, criminal homicide, forcible sex, arson, burglary, motor vehicle theft, and larceny-theft (FBI, 2004). The part 2 offences comprises of less serious crimes which are either reported directly to the police or through the separate agencies. Only the arrest data is collected and reported to the FBI...
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...A00338366 Master of Science in Criminal Justice General Walden University August 20, 2012 Criminal justice is a broad category; there are many issues within criminal justice that can definitely use adjustments just as with any other subject in society. The increasing amount of crime in the United States has become unbearable for those who are living within the country. Juvenile delinquency and juvenile recidivism is at an all-time high; there is a vast amount of society that participates in juvenile crime prevention while others pretend like it is not their job. In order for anything to be successful everyone involved must put forth a joint effort. This paper will focus on a targeted population of juveniles African Americans and those of low economic status along with delinquency and recidivism, who commits juvenile crimes, why do juveniles reoffend. Juvenile delinquency is of great importance; and juvenile recidivism is even more important everyone should take the time to participate in some way in order to prevent it. Often time’s society questions why there is so much juvenile crime and recidivism that exist, but reality is until everyone works as a team instead of in separation juvenile crime and recidivism will stand just as it did the first day it started. The best research methods to use to retrieve credible and somewhat accurate information would definitely have to be both quantitative and qualitative research. The use of both methods is needed because there are...
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...Just like adults the criminal system for juvenile very on the extent of the crime committed. One thing that is a little different is that juveniles don’t go to the jail or prisons like those of adults. Now each state differs on the age that they consider when a juvenile commits a crime. Some see that if a person is over the age of 16 they are tried as an adult yet others still wait until they are 18 or older. Some states also depend not only on age but the crime that was committed. Like if a state sees an individual steal or vandalizes something and are sixteen they may keep them in the juvenile system, yet is one of the age of sixteen commits a murder they may be tried as an adult. For the most part they system for the juvenile and adult are similar. First thing they look at is what crime was committed and how many time the individual was or ever has been convicted of the crime. Some also look at other crimes that they may have committed weather it is the same or not. One that has been in the juvenile detention center is less likely to get to walk away after being caught for another crime. Just like adult crimes the decided whether the crime is one that is to put the juvenile in detention center until they speak to a judge. This is the same as adults were they would see a judge within twenty-four to forty eight hr. the judge then decided if they are to release them until there next court date or keep them in the center. Juveniles are more likely looking at fines, probation...
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...This paper will discuss the history of the juvenile justice system. I started this paper by looking at the history of the juvenile justice system, which showed how laws and legal measures involving juvenile offenders have an extensive history. There were no isolated courts or laws, and no services for juveniles, up till the 19th century, children who committed serious offenses were punished and restrained in prison the same way as adults. The changes in legislation rose the age at which individuals officially became adults. This change helped many juveniles escape the cruel treatment in the adult prisons. These changes were based on new understanding of the relationship between physical, mental maturity and acknowledgment. The American juvenile justice system has evolved over the past century with variation that embellished from the adult criminal justice process. The first juvenile's court was acknowledged in 1899, in Chicago, Illinois, and by1945, all states had juvenile courts. The juvenile crime rates particularly homicide rose during the 1980s and 1990s. Therefor the system faces a vast of questions about whether young offenders should be tried and sentenced in a different way than adult offenders (Lawrence & Hemmens, 2008, Chapter 1). The juvenile courts wanted to turn young felons into dynamic people by concentrating on treatment rather than punishment. The laws that established the juvenile courts illustrated their point as different from the adult penal codes...
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...though the crime rate grows on a daily basis. While the crime rate continues to grow so does the number of juvenile offenders that are involved in criminal activity. Since late 1980’s, the number of juvenile arrests, has risen steadily and has continued to rise every year since then. With juvenile offenders committing the same crimes as adult offenders, it seems as though the juveniles should be tried and punished to the same extinct as the adult offenders that commit the same crimes. Juvenile courts have been put into place to handle the trials of juveniles and are used for guidance rather than punishment. Juvenile courts were introduced as a method to keep juveniles out of the adult courts until the age of 18, which defines a juvenile as an adult. As the crime rate continues to grow and more juveniles continue to commit adult crimes or serious violent crimes, will the juvenile court system be adequate for juvenile trials and enacting punishment for crimes that are committed by juveniles? Should Juvenile Offenders Be Tried and Punished As Adult Offenders? In law a juvenile is defined as a person who is not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts. In most states and on the federal level, this age is set at 18 years. For example in Wyoming a juvenile is a person under the age of 19. In other states a juvenile is considered a person under the age of 17, and in Connecticut, New York, and North Carolina, a juvenile is considered a person under the age of 16....
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...has steadily increased over the years and does not look to be decreasing any time soon unless measures are taken. Juveniles are usually convicted and sentenced in juvenile court but some cases have also been tried in adult court. Status offenses are also controversial topics that need further research before any conclusions are drawn on them being an actual violation of the law. There are also a number of different variables and characteristics of each juvenile in detention, and these paint a broader picture of the environment and culture they come from. Juvenile delinquency is also known as juvenile offending or youth crime, which is the participation of juveniles in illegal behavior. A juvenile delinquent is usually a person under the age of 18 who commits an offense that would otherwise have been charged as a crime if they were an adult. It is also possible based upon the type and severity of the crime that an under-18 juvenile delinquent could be charged and tried as an adult. State policies vary as to the age at which a person legally becomes an adult, but if we refer to a juvenile as a person under the age of 18, the figures are shocking and disproportionate. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), reports that nearly 16 percent of all violent crimes and 26 percent of all property crimes are committed by under 18 year olds. What is even more worrying is that this age group only makes up 26 percent of the total population of the United States...
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