Chapter 10 discusses the issues facing minority youth on the streets and through the court system, such as lack of adult supervision, being unaware of their rights, prosecution of juveniles as adults, hefty sentences for non violent offenders, etc

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Chapter 10 discusses the issues facing minority youth on the streets and through the court system, such as lack of adult supervision, being unaware of their rights, prosecution of juveniles as adults, hefty sentences for non violent offenders, etc. Please choose one issue facing our nation's youth that contribute to juveniles becoming dependent on the system for stability, safety, and security. Please refer to your readings, lecture notes, the video for review and the websites provided to answer and discuss the following questions:

1. Explain one issue facing juveniles that would contribute to them becoming dependent on the system. 
2. Conduct further research to help substantiate your claims that the issue you selected does in fact contribute to the dependency. 
3. Discuss some alternative reform suggestions to help combat the issue you selected. 

RESPONSE 1 TO SYDNEY

One issue facing juveniles is a lack of parental supervision from improper role modeling or single-family households. In households with only one parent, it is hard to wear every hat on one head, so to speak. It is hard to work the job(s) to pay the bills, to cook healthy meals, to keep a stable household, and to be a good role model, which includes both discipline and love. A single-parent home is going to be unable to provide all of these things and put food on the table. Proper supervision is important for children’s safety, ability to learn in school, and to foster positive friend relationships.Without this supervision, kids will make their own decisions and they will not always be positive. Kids cannot be expected to make the right decisions when they do not have positive role models and active guardians. This all leads to a youth making bad choices that could lead them to opening the door to the criminal justice system. In some cases, the single parent gets arrested and the kid(s) go straight into the system. In cases where the home life is not deemed adequate, officials have been known to put kids into residential facilities (Walker et al., 2018). At this point, not having an adequate home to go to, children become dependent on the system. Once in the system, short of the parent(s) getting their act together, the youth are dependent on social workers, CASA volunteers, juvenile lawyers, and heads of households or program directors.

There is a consistency between a lack of supervision and a non-intact household and there is a strong correlation between youth delinquency and non-intact households, therefore, it could be said that youth behaviors are tied to their home environment (Miller, 2012). This backs up the notion that a troubled home can lead to troubled youth. Parental supervision has a proven association with less delinquency, family activities such as eating dinner together, reading together or other routine activities create stronger bonds and less opportunity to engage in delinquent behaviors (Griffin et al., 2000). Informal social controls can be positive role models not only for youth, but for parents as well. School involvement and prominent community figures promoting these types of activities and family values can help keep minority families out of the system.

 

RESPONSE 2 MARK

An important issue among others facing the juvenile justice system is the double-edged sword of punishment but also acting in the best interest of the child. The language used in the juvenile system does vary from the adult criminal justice system, juveniles are charged with delinquencies and sent to school or programs rather than prison but is this enough to detour them away from committing crimes in their adult life. Acting in the best interest of the child rather than punishment, incapacitation and protecting society from offenses has changed and evolved overtime. Making the juvenile justice system too comfy allows children to depend on this system for security, dependability and stability. Children often times are able to focus and graduate school while in the system where if they were at home, they most likely would not finish school, this gives them stability most of them crave in their household. Having a sense of family, other juveniles or even the officers give them a sense of dependability they can rely on these people for their needs and wants. Lastly being in a place where they are fed and have a bed to lay their head gives them a sense of security. Juveniles who commit delinquencies come from all types of back rounds but most of them are not so great. Some alternatives would be to not make the system feel so long term allow them to be uncomfortable and have a sense of that this is a short-term thing. Detouring juveniles away from crime is very important to a path to seeing less and less juveniles commit crimes.