1. Being well known and respected is hard to come by today, with the quick judgments individuals make. Judge Dorn and Judge Ciavarella seemed to have an exception and were liked by many people. They were seen as hero’s to some, always correcting behavior and following a strict line. The public really liked the way they ran the system, always speaking publically to ensure safety and ease for kids who are lost. Although, the picture the public failed to see at first ultimately led to a harsh and difficult lifestyle for these kids. Both judges were very demanding, for example in cash for kids, judge Ciavarella didn’t put up with any kid. Whether it was a small behavioral offense or a larger criminal offense, he treated it the same. Ciavarella …show more content…
Hume’s offers many suggested reform throughout. From the book I gathered reform ideas from Dorn, the governor, DA Gil Garcetti, and probation courts. The reform by these individuals is set on personal opinion for the best interest for what they believe. For example, lowering the fitness age so younger individuals can be tried as adults and be more responsible for that crime. Judge Dorn is all for this and even wants to run a smaller system that handles small offences that juvenile systems tend to ignore. Other reform includes construction by the governor to build bigger prisons and fill the adult systems, forcing younger ones to be responsible for their crimes. Probation court on the other hand is trying to create a profile for repeat offenders. The idea will help gauge and correct behavior before it gets worse or happens again. The effort is to help the child no punish them. The last reform idea is By DA Gil Garcetti. His attempt can build from Dorns and the governors in attempt to scratch the system and rebuild it from scratch. He says replace it with something new. This may be harsher and help with punishing rather then correction. In a way, there is two approaches to this reform. On one side we have a safe and helpful revision that can teach good behavior and guide them to correcting bad behavior without punishing them. The other we have Dorn and others fighting for justice. They want all to pay for their actions and believe many get away with to much so punishment is key to correction. The only similarity between these two reform arguments is that the child gets the consequence, whether they are sent away for help or locked up in prison with older more serious
That was a huge red flag that something was not going right in his court room. When they dug deeper they found that the children were going away for small offenses. They filed a request to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to help these children. They eventually helped get some of these kids. Ciavarella was then put on trial for what he had been doing in his court room.
Padilla labeled Casey narcissistic and promiscuous, fueling the fires of public sentiment against the young woman. The case became a national media sensation, and many in the public and the press were outraged at Casey’s behavior. Casey was back in jail only eight days after being released, this time charged with forging checks and identity theft. ”(Biography p. 2) Casey was in and out of jail throughout the whole trial; proving that she didn’t care about her two year old daughter being gone.
Research has shown that transferring adolescents from juvenile court to criminal court increases the recidivism rate. Thus, exposing minors to adult treatment increases crime. Generally, juvenile detention facilities are equip for rehabilitation, offering programs to aid reformation. Society does not hold youth to the same maturity level of an adult. Furthermore, juveniles are not afforded the same rights as adults (e.g. smoking, drinking, voting) because we understand their inability to make responsible decisions.
In his autobiography, he characterized his reformatory system as “Socialization of the anti-social by scientific training while under completest government control” (Brockway, 2012, P. 309). He writes that he did not believe in using intimidation to bring about appropriate behavior. Instead he instituted a system of merits and demerits leading to better habits. If an inmate earned too many demerits, he could be retained longer in the reformatory. He also writes that if there was a motto for Elmira, it should have been: “Here ends your customary thoroughfare and to you opens the new and narrow way which leads on to happiness by way of welfare.
Modern sentencing practices are outrageous and out of control. People go to prison for 162 years for stealing a car or 25 to life just for simply making a mistake of leaving their child in the car for no longer than 20 minutes without killing or harming the child. Even the innocent get sentenced major years for crimes they didn’t even commit. Lately sentencing has been crazy, so at this point in time sentence reforming is relevant in this case. To begin with, sentence reforming needs to take place because people are getting way to many years for petty crimes they didn't commit.
The balanced and restorative approach provides a significant change in toles and image of the juvenile justice system from a revolving door to a resource. The resource makes juvenile offenders accountable and enhances the quality of life within communities by community restoration using preventive services to help improve the safety of the community. 2-Compare and contrast the different types of restorative justice (i.e., VOM, FGC, NRB, peacemaking/sentencing circles)
The federal government’s “War on Crime” by the Johnson administration in the 60s made way for tougher law enforcement and surveillance (Hinton, 2015). However, with this came the separation of children and adults in the criminal justice system; then the separation of juvenile delinquents from status offenders. As mentioned, status offenders are different from juvenile delinquents because they had broken rules which apply to only children. Meanwhile, juvenile delinquents are youths under the age of 18, who committed offenses that would be punishable to adults as well. By the late 1960s, there became a growing concern that juveniles involved in the court-based status-offense system, were not getting their best interests met (Shubik & Kendall, 2007).
It would also allow the funds from the federal juvenile program to be placed into the state juvenile program allowing the state to have additional rehabilitation
School programs were without supplies, inmate classifications weren’t distinguishable, detailed treatment plans fell short, and harsh fines depleted the worth and value of paid labor. Due to the lack of guidelines for indeterminate sentencing the original promise and purpose was lost and abused by officials seeking to gain further control over insubordinate inmates. Parole board members were unqualified and failed at adequately reviewing offenders progress or failures. Overcrowding pushed for early release, rendering requirements lax and often overlooked. Once released, parole officers failed at physically supervising offenders, relying on paperwork and formalities to monitor their progress and reform (Blomberg & Lucken, 2010, pp.
Imagine that Zoe’s brother had been sentenced to the death penalty. She knows her brother is innocent and visits him before the execution. The prison smells of dead rodents and faintly of the toxic injection that will eventually find its way into each nail-biting prisoner. The brother cries and laces his cold fingers with Zoe through the cell bars. Zoe cries salty tears and listens to the clatter and moans of prisoners.
As a result, they involved (in crime) parole into the federal system in 1910 to let convicted violent criminals who did well in jail out early. The only (loss of wealth, power, reputation/something that ruins something) was that every prisoner couldn 't get parole. The broad ability to make independent decisions of judges and parole (people in charge of something) came to an agreement on the length of prison sentences before the Sentencing Reform Act came from/was caused by an idea known as offender healing/repairing. Prison-based healing/repairing programs were designed to reduce crime by helping law-breakers to function(usually/ in a common and regular way) in (community of people/all good people in the
They are cottage institutions, probation, and out-of-home placement. The new approaches were typically the result of enterprising social reformers, who sought new and better ways to address the problems of wayward youth” (Juvenile Justice
Although people in favor of centralized probation argue that decentralizing probation has its flaws such as local probation following outdated practices, I believe with the proper training given to local law enforcement they will be better able to train staff with the updated procedures and possibly make a change in a person’s
Prior to 1899 in the United States, children who committed a criminal offense were tried and punished as adults. Children were being institutionalized with adult criminals where they were picking up negative influences preparing them for a life of crime. Progressive and social change demanded that children be protected and educated instead and therefore a separate court system for juveniles was subsequently established to address this problem. It has since being argued that juvenile courts have abandoned their role to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents and should be abolished.
There have been many advances in the methods of detailing and punishing those individuals throughout history who hand found themselves deviating from society norms. Criminals are punished for the acts that they carry out on citizens, property they damage, and many other deviate acts they engage in across America. Supervision of criminals, along with prolonged rehabilitation has always been the major stepping stone for integrating criminals back into society. Correctional supervision has allowed criminals with minor and some major crime convictions to forgo incarceration for a form of corrections that is less structured than that of a penal system or correctional facility. There are many different types of correctional supervision that a criminal can be ordered to participate in and complete before completing many rehabilitation programs.