Pennsylvania incarcerated 90 percent of transferred juveniles in violent and drug offense cases, but only 10 percent in property cases. These measures were aimed at minimizing the stigma attached to court involvement and promoting the goal of rehabilitation. Although each jurisdiction established its juvenile court system with its own procedures and structure, juvenile courts across the United States were generally designed to focus on early intervention and rehabilitation and to emphasize an individualized approach to youth crime. . Changes in laws do not necessarily translate into changes in practice. This placed added burdens on already large case loads and widened the net of the court to embrace every conceivable form of nonconventional behavior. Overall, race does not appear to have been a significant factor in influencing commitment patterns to state prison. ers at San Quentin and Folsom prisons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.14 Between the 1870s and the 1930s, mid-teens were committed to San Quentin and Folsom prisons, but in very small numbers and percentages. There are laws in 23 states that provide some mechanism for a child who is being tried in the criminal court to petition to have the case transferred to the juvenile court (Griffin et al., 1998). Source: Data for 1975 to 1991 from Smith (1998); data for 1995 and 1997 from Snyder and Sickmund (1999). Also of possible concern are the quality and impact of attorney representation. The origin of the juvenile court reflects an abiding tension between safeguarding children and protecting society. Studies also report many times more personality disorders, especially borderline personality disorder, among incarcerated youth than among the general population of young people. Practice may also move in ways not envisioned when laws are passed. The salient difference between these two systems, as Mitcheal Ritter puts it, “is the use of distinct terminology to refer to their similar proced… Some researchers have found significantly lower recidivism rates among diverted juveniles than among controls who received normal juvenile justice system processing (e.g., Henggeler et al., 1993; Pogrebin et al., 1984). Many states allow a judge to commit a juvenile to be held in the state's juvenile corrections system up to age 21 (even though the court's jurisdiction for hearing and disposing of cases ends when a juvenile is 16 or 17). During the 1990s, most states made it easier to transfer juveniles to adult court (Torbet and Szymanski, 1998). In their quasi-experimental study of four sites in the United States, Umbreit and Coates (1992:12) concluded that for offenders, “participation in mediation appears to not have significantly increased their satisfaction with how the juvenile justice system handled their case.” The study included interviews with victims and offenders who completed the mediation process. Until the early 19th century in the United States, children as young as 7 years old could be tried in criminal court and, if convicted, sentenced to prison or even to death. And a few states allow children of any age to be tried as adults for certain types of crimes, such as homicide. Meta-analysis allows the quantitative findings of many studies to be combined and statistically analyzed. Generally, the states require the court to consider the following factors in the exercise of its discretion: whether a waiver of jurisdiction would serve the interests of the juvenile and the public; whether public safety requires it; whether there are further services available for the juvenile through the juvenile court system; and whether the child is amenable to rehabilitation (Griffin et al., 1998). Worden and Myers (1999) analyzed factors that affected the likelihood of arrest in juvenile encounters with police. Using an evidence-based approach, Juvenile Justice invites students to take a journey toward understanding the United States juvenile justice system and the response from police, courts, and correctional institutions to crimes committed by juveniles, as well as the strategies used to deter these crimes.Renowned authors Frank Schmalleger and Catherine D. Marcum combine a practical tone with … Dedel (1997) reports that 75 percent of students in custody advanced less than a full grade level per year while in custody. The adjudication of a juvenile as delinquent is the basis for a disposition, comparable to sentencing, in which either freedom in the community under supervision or confinement in a correctional facility can be ordered. The authors concluded that regular probation suffices for most juvenile offenders and that intensive supervision should be reserved for serious and violent offenders who have failed under regular probation conditions. Juvenile records, fingerprints, and photographs are increasingly being integrated into centralized repositories. Over the past 10 years, there has been an increase in the percentage of cases (from 47 percent in 1986 to 56 percent in 1996) handled formally for all juveniles, regardless of age, race, or gender. Court proceedings were to be nonadversarial, operating “on behalf of” rather than against the juvenile. Policies of the last decade have become more punitive toward delinquent juveniles, but especially toward juveniles who commit violent crimes. States that receive money under the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act must meet certain requirements, such as not housing juveniles with adults in detention or incarceration facilities, but it is state law that governs the structure of juvenile courts and juvenile corrections facilities. One concern that is often raised about diversion programs is that they may result in net widening which is “a phenomenon whereby a program is set up to divert youth away from an institutional placement or some other type of juvenile court disposition, but, instead, merely brings more youth into the juvenile justice system who previously would never have. Throughout the chapter, differences by race and by gender in involvement in the juvenile justice system are noted. Source: Stahl et al. There have been very few scientifically rigorous evaluations of juvenile after-care programs. Chapter 6 examines in more detail the overrepresentation of minorities in the juvenile justice system. Juveniles may be put on probation, placed in a correctional institution or other out-of-home placement, sent to treatment or other programs, or given some other sanction, such as paying restitution or performing community service. Reports have indicated that during this period approximately one dozen youths were executed for crimes committed before they reached the age of 14. The risk is increased only slightly, to 4.4 percent, when he is found in contempt. Mississippi excludes all felonies committed by juveniles who are 17 years of age. Because the average length of stay for juveniles in residential placement is less than four months (Smith, 1998)—significantly shorter than 26 weeks—it may be difficult to provide programs over a sufficient length of time to make a difference for many youth in residential placement. Generally there is a preliminary hearing to determine if the case is one to which the mandatory statute applies. Throughout the 19th century, juveniles in the United States who were accused of criminal behaviour were tried in the same courts as adults and subjected to the same punishments. Information about the number of juveniles in custody—in detention or juvenile correctional facilities—is very poor. This system was to differ from adult or criminal court in a number of ways. It is commonly assumed that such transfers result in harsher punishment for juveniles, but research has shown that the likelihood of some form of punishment is greater in the juvenile than in the adult justice system. Although it is difficult to determine exactly how many juveniles these changes affected, 17-year-olds accounted for 24 percent of the arrests of all those under 18 in 1998. However, just as early employment contacts can enhance the prospects of getting a job and subsequent occupational mobility, contacts with crime and the justice system seem likely, in a converse way, to increase the probability of unemployment. The greatest accomplishment of the child savers was the creation of the first juvenile court which appeared in Cook County, Illinois in 1899. Members of the study panel visited the Giddings School and can corroborate the praise of the facility by the Coalition for Juvenile Justice. Furthermore, the court treated children who had committed no crime the same as those who had committed a criminal act. The procedure followed in juvenile courts is distinct from that of criminal courts. Most juvenile courts have jurisdiction over criminal delinquency, abuse and neglect, and status offense delinquency cases. Arguably, formal handling of cases can be considered more punitive than release or diversion to other systems. Deprivation of liberty through incarceration is usually thought to be the most severe sanction that can be meted out by the justice system.8 Of all juvenile criminal delinquency cases disposed in 1996, 18 percent (320,900 cases) resulted in detention. These provisions allowed young people who had been successfully rehabilitated to clear their records so that, in effect, the proceedings would be treated as if they had never occurred (Hurst, 1985). It separates them from their families, friends, and support systems, and it interrupts their schooling. Criminal delinquency cases are those in which a child has committed an act that would be a crime if committed by an adult. An increasingly popular approach, known as “restorative justice,” has been used especially in cases of delinquency unrelated to gangs. Education is now stressed over punishment there. Of all juvenile cases resulting in detention in 1996, 26 percent were for person offenses, 38 percent were for property offenses, 21 percent were for public order offenses, 12 percent for drug law violations, and 3 percent. FIGURE 5-3 Juvenile court processing of petitioned status delinquency cases, 1996. In a study of the Chicago juvenile court, Jeter (1922) reported that the percentage of boys transferred to adult court per year was usually less than 1 percent. (1983) of juvenile justice administration in California compared the conviction rates of similar types of cases in juvenile and adult courts, concluding that it “is easier to win a conviction in the juvenile court than in the criminal court, with comparable types of cases” (Greenwood et al., 1983:30-31 cited in Feld, 1999). There is a great deal of variety in the responsibilities and structure of probation departments from state to state and even within states. In those states, the prosecutor has the authority to decide in which court to file the case; the juvenile court judge has no part in the decision. In 2005, however, the U.S. Supreme Court decided (Roper v. Simmons) to raise the minimum age for eligibility for the death penalty to 18 years. The New York Times (1998) documented continuing physical abuse and other problems in this facility in 1998, which “houses 620 boys and young men, age. However, because the overall number of criminal delinquency cases coming to the court has increased, the number of cases that result in secure detention has increased, even though the percentage of cases detained has remained steady. From the inception of the juvenile court, juvenile court judges have had the discretion to waive jurisdiction to the criminal court. Intervention within the juvenile justice system. Intensive supervision after-care programs often include goals similar to those found in the restorative justice model, such as restitution and reintegration. Secondly, we have the juvenile justice system, a court designed especially for minors and is generally thought to help rehabilitate the offender. Using multivariate logistic regression, they found that the factors most important to juvenile judges' decisions to transfer a case included current offense, prior record, and age. Thus, juvenile courts normally have not been concerned with determining guilt or innocence so much as with making a finding of fact—that the juvenile is, for one reason or another, legally subject to the jurisdiction of the court. Demonstrating the success or failure of intensive supervision programs may ride on their ability to identify the appropriate group of juveniles to serve. State laws set a maximum age for adolescents for which the juvenile court has original jurisdiction. For example, criminal involvements of family and friends are more likely to integrate young people into the criminal underworld than into referral networks of legal employment. It should be a matter of public accountability for facilities that hold juveniles in secure confinement to report on a regular basis on the conditions under which those juveniles are kept and the types of services provided. Observations were based on spatial and temporal sampling, with shifts representing all times of the day and all days of the week. (1996) conducted a quasi-experimental evaluation of youth participating in a program that combined an alternative to traditional residential confinement (three months of participation in a wilderness camp) with placement in intensive after-care supervision (treatment and surveillance) upon release. In McKeiver v. Pennsylvania (403 U.S. 528 [1971]), the Court held that juveniles were not entitled to a trial by jury, arguing that the juvenile court proceeding was not the fully adversarial process found in criminal courts. Racial and ethnic minority groups (black, Hispanic, Chinese, Hawaiian, American Indian, Japanese) were represented among the mid-teens committed to San Quentin and Folsom prisons, but only in two decades was there notable overrepresentation of any group: the Chinese in the 1870s, at the height of anti-Chinese period in California; and Hispanics in the 1930s, a period of severe deprivation and outmigration of Mexicans from California following large-scale immigration in the 1920s. The provisions for the deinstitutionalization of status offenders led to a decrease in the numbers of status offenders held in detention facilities and institutions by the early 1980s (Krisberg and Schwartz, 1983; National Research Council, 1982; Schneider, 1984a). There is a great deal of variety by state, however, in average length of stay in long-term public facilities, with some states reporting average stays that are well above the national norm. study also found that other factors, including the type of counsel, were more strongly associated with placement outcomes than the mere fact of being represented by counsel. And 61 percent of those under 18 sent to state prison in 1997 had been convicted of a violent offense. ___, cofounded the famous chicago settlement house called the Hull House and tried to establish a juvenile court system. It was widely agreed that the emphasis on probation and family treatment was innovative, but the new system also extended the state’s control over the behaviour of youth via the designation of status offenses. Often overlooked are the underlying problems of child poverty, social disadvantage, and the pitfalls inherent to adolescent decisionmaking that contribute to youth crime. A comparison of cases transferred to adult court with those adjudicated in juvenile court in St. Louis found that transferred youth did not receive greater punishment than they would have received in juvenile court (Kinder et al., 1995). study found that health care screenings may be performed by staff with no health training. Offense-based sanctions are to be proportional to the offense and have retribution or deterrence as their goal. Land et al. In each of these ethnographies and in the related studies noted earlier, it is embeddedness in crime networks, including the juvenile and the criminal justice systems, that seals the economic fate of these young people. The panel did not have the resources to examine all the literature relevant to treatment of juveniles under the control of the juvenile justice system (Lipsey and Wilson, 1998, alone found 200 experimental or quasiexperimental studies for their meta-analysis). Court appearances and resulting confinements removed these youth from whatever possibility for inclusion in job referral networks school might provide and placed them in prison and community-based crime networks that further isolated them from legitimate employment. Jane Adams Which sociologist below made a major contribution to society through his in-depth studies of urban life, both black and white? The practice has been condemned by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the American Bar Association, the Children's Defense Fund, and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. Deschenes et al. The average length of sentence for juveniles committed to San Quentin and Folsom prisons in the 19th century was 3.5 years (compared to under 2 years for reform schools), much shorter than the 6.8 year national average for juveniles in state prisons in 1997 (Strom, 2000). Although national data on length of sentences given in juvenile court are not available, national average length of stay in long-term juvenile facili-. As of the end of 1997, 25 states had made such changes (Torbet and Szymanski, 1998). During this time, the eugenic theory highly influenced how the public viewed criminal behavior and the differential social status between poor, middle class, and wealthy. The combination of treatment and surveillance is critical to the intensive after-care model. In 1995, Human Rights Watch (1995) documented physical abuse of juveniles in Louisiana's Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth. And 40 percent of them were convicted of a violent offense, compared with only 18 percent of all felony convictions of those over 18. Source: Analysis by panel member Steven Schlossman. Furthermore, neither this instrument nor the newly designed Juvenile Residential Facility Census (begun in October 2000), which collects basic data on size, structure, security arrangements, and ownership of facilities designed to house juveniles, as well as information about the provision of health care, education, substance abuse treatment, and mental health treatment in those facilities, yields information about children or youth housed in jails, adult institutions, or mental hospital facilities. To further understand the nature of police interactions with juveniles, the panel commissioned an analysis by Worden and Myers (1999) of the data involving juveniles from the Project on Policing Neighborhoods, a multimethod study of police patrols in two cities (Indianapolis, Indiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida). diction (four states); and enacting mandatory minimums or sentencing guidelines for juveniles (three states). Hagan (1991), using data from a 13-year panel study, and Grogger (1995). In a study conducted on a geographically diverse, longitudinal (nine years of data) sample of approximately 36,000 court referrals, Johnson and Scheuble (1991) found that, after controlling for the nature of the offense, past offending, and other background variables, girls were more likely than boys to have their cases dismissed and boys were more likely than girls to be put on probation or to be locked up. The after-care component combines surveillance and control of offenders in the community with the provision of treatment and services based on the offender's needs and an assessment of factors that might increase his or her chances of reoffending. Juveniles who have been adjudicated delinquent and sentenced to incarceration may also be kept in secure detention until a placement in a long-term facility can be made. Status offenders were randomly assigned to regular probation or to intensive supervision. The variation around this overall mean, however, was considerable.”. Rates of representation varied between urban and rural jurisdictions, and among states and within states (U.S. General Accounting Office, 1995b). A total of 56 percent of the criminal delinquency cases that were referred to juvenile courts in 1996 were formally handled by the court (petitioned); that is, these cases appeared on the official court calendar in response to the filing of a petition, complaint, or other legal instrument. Experiments with the restorative justice model point to ways in which juvenile offenders can be held responsible for their offenses, make restitution to victims, and receive services aimed at reintegrating them into society. Other meta-analyses have similarly found that cognitive-behavioral, skill-oriented, and multimodal programs have the best effects (Gottschalk et al., 1987; Mayer et al., 1986). The panel could find no studies of the impact of these punishments on the behavior of juveniles either during incarceration or upon release. Prevention and intervention efforts directed to individuals, peer groups, and families, as well as day care-, school- and community-based initiatives. A true diversion program takes only juveniles who would ordinarily be involved in the juvenile justice system and places them in an alternative program. Therefore, they searched separately for effective programs in these two settings. Some research has also shown that length of confinement has no effect on rearrest rates of juvenile parolees (Beck and Shipley, 1987; Cohen and Canela-Cacho, 1994; National Research Council, 1993). Girls are increasingly referred to juvenile court for violent crimes. Prosecutorial Direct File. Also at issue is legal representation for juveniles. In Breed v. Jones (421 U.S. 519), the Court held that. For example, a study by Greenwood et al. All rights reserved. As for program content, more research is needed that untangles effects attributable to intensive supervision from those of treatment and rehabilitation provided along with the supervision. juvenile courts today, as in the past, continues to include both children who break criminal laws and children who commit status delinquency offenses. From their inception, juvenile courts had authority not only over children and adolescents who committed illegal acts, but also over those who defied parental authority or social conventions by such acts as running away from home, skipping school, drinking alcohol in public, or engaging in sexual behavior. Studies that evaluate intensive supervision programs for parolees or for a combination of probationers and parolees are discussed in the section below on after care. Diversion covers a wide range of interventions that are alternatives to initial or continued formal processing in the system (Kammer et al., 1997). In contrast, some facilities provide a wide range of programs in well-kept settings. The lack of adequate mental health treatment in the juvenile correctional facilities represents a lost opportunity for these juveniles. How the decision to transfer is made is governed by state law and therefore varies from state to state. The peak occurred during the height of the war on drugs and the rise in youth violence, which was often associated with drug dealing. Therefore, moving 17-year-olds to the criminal justice system could reduce the case flow in the juvenile system by as much as one-fourth. Figure 5-1 provides a simplified view of case flow through the juvenile justice system. Equally important, this book examines a range of solutions: The book includes background on the American juvenile court system, useful comparisons with the juvenile justice systems of other nations, and other important information for assessing this problem. For example, in California, the average length of stay in Youth Authority institutions was 25.7 months in fiscal year 1997-1998 (California Youth Authority, 1997-1998); in Texas, the average length of stay in Texas Youth Commission facilities was 23 months for violent offenders (Criminal Justice Policy Council, 1999) and 16.5 months for all offenders in fiscal year 1999 (special data analysis done by the Criminal Justice Policy Council for this report). Recommendation: The federal government should assist the states through federal funding and incentives to reduce the use of secure detention and secure confinement, by developing community-based alternatives. There is scant empirical data on police encounters with juveniles (Black and Reiss, 1970; Lundman et al., 1978; Wordes and Bynum, 1995). They summarize their results as follows (Lipsey and Wilson, 1998:229-230): “The average intervention effect for these studies was positive, statistically significant, and equivalent to a recidivism reduction of about 6 percentage points, for example, from 50 percent to 44 percent (mean effect size = 0.12). Parent et al. Secure detention and correctional facilities have become increasingly crowded, impairing their ability to provide adequate services to their heterogeneous populations. In practice, there was always a tension between social welfare and social control—that is, focusing on the best interests of the individual child versus focusing on punishment, incapacitation, and protecting society from certain offenses. It should be noted, however, that Lipsey and Wilson (1998) found that characteristics of effective programming both inside and outside institutions differed. The response to this new social invention was rapid, and the juvenile court spread throughout the United States in less than twenty-five years. These problems can be further conceptualized in terms of a process of “criminal embeddedness” (Hagan, 1993; Hagan and McCarthy, 1997). Some pressure appears to be mounting to include more serious cases in mediation programs (Umbreit and Greenwood, 1998). In some cities, power is also conferred upon these courts to commit to institutions, or other custodial care, juvenile dependents and children found to be in unfit homes. Schneider (1986) reported a significant reduction in recidivism among offenders in a mediation program. Lowering the maximum age of juvenile court jurisdiction is one of the most drastic steps a state can take, because it moves an entire age group of adolescents into the adult system. Felix Padilla echoes this theme in his ethnography of The Gang as an American Enterprise, noting that “instead of functioning as a progressive and liberating agent capable of transforming and correcting the youngsters' economic plight, the gang assisted in reinforcing it” (Padilla, 1992:163). Virginia. The federal government has jurisdiction over a small number of juveniles, such as those who commit crimes on Indian reservations or in national parks, and it has its own laws to govern juveniles within its system. Determining the appropriate amount and type of treatment and services is clearly an issue in need of further research and clarification. The maximum sentence for an adult would have been a $50 fine or 2 months in jail. 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