2. JUVENILE JUSTICE
in todays society
Tracy Crowl, Ashley Dylik, Kelsey Jaffe, James
O’Donnell, and Brandon Prate
3. WHO ARE THESE KIDS?
In 2003 – 2.2 Million juveniles were arrested.
Property crimes
Assault
Property crimes
71% males
Majority 16-17 years old
200,000 drug offenses
5. MORRIS KENT
First in at age 14
2 years later arrested again
Taken for psychiatric examination
Tried in criminal court as adult
6. MCLEAN COUNTY JUVENILE
DETENTION CENTER – NORMAL,
IL1 of 14 institutions in Illinois
26 beds
Serves Mclean, Logan, Livingston, Dewitt and Woodford
Counties
Small staff – administrative staff also trained as
correctional officers
7. AFTER ARREST
Youth is removed from police vehicle and led to intake
room.
Handcuffs then shoes, belt, and other personal
belongings are removed and they are patted down then
examined with a metal detector
General information and mental health/substance abuse
exams are obtained and conducted (if available)
– Mclean County goes back and fourth from having funding
for a professional
Uniforms are distributed
– In Mclean County, uniforms are colored by sizes
8. in Mclean County, a juvenile is detained
based off a score given during intake.
Higher scores get detained and juveniles
with lower scores are sent home.
-Factors: their victims (child or old), parole,
amount of charges
9. DAILY LIFE
Monday-Friday: juveniles are woken up at 8am for breakfast.
School – includes classes, gym , lunch , an elective (art,
substance abuse groups, life skills) ends around 4:30pm.
Dinner is served, free time for 1 hour, showers, then bed
Each juvenile is given an A each morning. Grades are based
upon their attitude and participation in activities throughout the
day. -More consecutive A’s = more privileges (Wii time,
stamps, etc.)
10. VISITATION
Only parents/legal guardians can visit
Siblings under 9 and over 21 can visit
Local church members (pastors, youth
pastors, etc.) are regularly scheduled to meet
with juveniles
14. WHAT IS DETENTION?
Detention- A form of locked custody of youth pre-trial
who are arrested—juvenile detention centers are the
juvenile justice system’s version of ―jail,‖ in which
most young people are being held before the court
has judged them delinquent. Some youth in
detention are there because they fail the conditions
of their probation or parole, or they may be waiting in
detention before their final disposition (i.e. sentence
to a community program, or juvenile correctional
facility).
15. THE PROS
Juvenile detention centers can help adolescents, even
those who are repeat offenders, turn their lives around
before they commit crimes as adults and wind up in
prison.
Well-run juvenile detention centers help adolescents
develop insight, change their behavior and develop goals
for themselves that they can pursue when they are
released.
The best-run centers have employees who can serve as
role models, showing teens that they have choices in
their lives.
16. THE PROS CONTINUED
Another purpose of a juvenile detention center is to provide
programs and remediation for the youths who are detained.
Programs such as individual and group counseling and optional
religious services are offered.
Girl Scouts, victim's awareness, family responsibilities, career
planning and work programs are among the activities offered at
the juvenile detention center in Guadalupe Parkway, San Jose,
California
17. THE CONS
Some of the main problems that juvenile
institutions run into include things such as:
– Not having enough space/room for the
amount of juveniles.
– Things like rape and false accusations.
– Overuse of detention. (most victims haven’t
committed serious crimes)
18. THE CONS CONTINUED
Detention can increase recidivism.
Congregating delinquent youth together
negatively affects their behavior and increases
their chance of re-offending
Detention is believed to pull youth deeper into
the juvenile and criminal justice system
19. PRIVATE VS. GOVERNMENT
OWNED INSTITUTIONS
Is there anything that is different between
either?
Why do you think that there might be a bias
and uncertainty on the topic of private
owned juvenile institutions?
20. TYPES OF CASES IN
JUVENILE COURT
Dependency
Delinquency
Termination of Parental Rights
Emancipation
Expunction
21. BANNING LIFE SENTENCES
FOR MINORS
Killed 15-Year-Old
Girlfriend
Life without Parole
Supreme Court banned
mandatory life sentences
without parole
Resentencing
22. WHO DID WHAT
Brutally attacked his own father,
stabbed him repeatedly with a knife,
and pled guilty to charges of attempted
murder
He was a ―Frequent Flyer‖ in the
juvenile system and has 7 theft
related offences on his record.
He took part in a violent fight, allegedly
gang-related, in which one person was
killed and another injured.
Took part on assault on a
neighborhood family, which one was
pregnant.
24. JOSE AND MANNY
Brutally attacked his own father,
stabbed him repeatedly with a knife,
and pled guilty to charges of attempted
murder
Took part on assault on a
neighborhood family, which one was
pregnant.
25. WHAT ABOUT THE OTHERS?
Charged with Auto-Theft and
Residential burglary
Tried in a juvenile court with
attempted murder, sentence was
considered too lenient.
26. TEST QUESTIONS
1- True or False?
The Administrative staff at the Mclean county
juvenile detention center also serve as
correctional officers.
2- before cook county opened the first juvenile
detention center in 1899, what was used to
house juvenile offenders.
27. ANSWERS
1- True or False?
The Administrative staff at the Mclean county juvenile detention center
also serve as correctional officers.
TRUE
2-before cook county opened the first juvenile detention center in 1899,
what was used to house juvenile offenders.
Houses of refuge
