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Juvenile Justice System Essay

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The Juvenile Justice System has been getting more attention in the recent years. It is being discussed on how the system needs to change in order to help the youth involved in the system, rather than putting them in a prison for years. As someone who is going into the criminal justice field and who has a cousin that was charged as an adult and put in prison for ten to fifteen years, this topic is of great interest to me. It has forced me to think, how should the juvenile justice system change? With that comes issues and arguments about why it should or should not be changed, the purpose of this paper is in need of being discussed, the audience for this paper will be a wide variety of people, but the research on this topic is plentiful. The …show more content…

The first article that was found is titled “Juvenile Justice in Austria and the United States: Similarities and Differences”. The authors of this piece are Peter C. Kratcski and Magistrat Maximilian Edelbacher. Their article was published in the summer of 2009 in the International Journal of Police Science & Management, it is the eleventh volume and the second issue on pages 203-2-16. The follow article is titled “Truancy Offenders in the Juvenile Justice System” and was published in July of 2007 in the Remedial & Special Education journal; this article is the twenty eighth volume and the fourth issue on pages 244-256. The authors of this work are Dalun Zhang, Antonis Katsiyannis, David E. Barrett, and Victor Willson. The third article that was found during the initial search for sources is titled “Trauma Histories Amoung Justice-Involved Youth: Findings from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network”, which was published in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology journal. This article was published in 2013 and can be found in volume four on pages 1-12. The authors of this work are Carly Dierkhising, Susan Ko, Briana Woods-Jaeger, Ernestine Briggs, Robert Lee, and Robert Pynoos. The author of the next article is Susan McCarter; she titled the article “Legal and Extralegal Factors Affecting Minority Overrepresentation in Virginia’s Juvenile Justice System: A Mixed-Method Study”. This article was published in December of 2009 in the Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal in volume twenty six issue six on pages 533-544. “Damaged Daughters: the History of Girls’ Sexuality and the Juvenile Justice System” was published in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology in the summer of 2010. The author of this article is Lisa Pasko. It is the hundredth volume and third issue on pages 1099-1130. Susan Neely-Barnes and Katheryn Whitted are the authors of “Examining the

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