Criminal Justice Capstone Week 2 Assignment

3. Juvenile justice system

Explain the history and different stages of the juvenile justice system
What exactly is police discretion and how influential is it concerning the decision to arrest a juvenile?
What are the laws constraining police in searches and seizures of juvenile suspects?
Describe the alternative dispositions available to the juvenile court.
Explain the waivers by which a juvenile from juvenile to criminal court for prosecution as an adult
Criminal Justice and Policing

Identify and correlate the various theories in policing
Examine the various policing approaches currently being used in law enforcement
Agencies along with traditional policing, to include community policing, problem-solving policing, intelligence-led policing, and evidence-based policing, among others.
Explain how, as a supervisor or manager in law enforcement, you would lead your agency in contemporary policing approaches.

This is a short summary of American juvenile justice in America. Crime rates for youth have dramatically decreased in the 90s. Many jurisdictions are beginning to review their harsh juvenile justice processes which were prevalent in the 1990s and 1980s as because of the decreasing crime rates. States are currently making significant reforms to their structure aimed at reducing the number of institutions that are confined, closing out old reform institutions dating from in the 18th century and extending the availability of community-based services (Mallett 2018). Courts sentenced and imprisoned youngsters in penitentiaries and prisons in the latter half of the 18th and 19th century. Because there were no other alternatives, children of all age groups and genders were often unjustly held in massive overcrowded, deteriorated, and decrepit correctional facilities along with experienced adult offenders as well as the mentally sick (Mallett 2018, 2018). Since there was no other option Many of these children were held for non-criminal activities. The high rates of child neglect and poverty in American cities in the early days put the municipal authorities under pressure to develop solutions to this latest social issue. Cont…