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Cases reviewed by The Post expose the consequences — baby-faced defendants who are cycled in and out of overcrowded youth holding facilities and a judicial system without the power to do ...
Harris County Juvenile Justice Center. The American juvenile justice system is the primary system used to handle minors who are convicted of criminal offenses. The system is composed of a federal and many separate state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, with states and the federal government sharing sovereign police power under the common authority of the United States Constitution.
The decreasing distinction between how youth and adults are tried in the criminal justice system has caused many within the legal system, as well as other activists and organizers, to criticize the juvenile justice system. [8] The "tough on crime" attitudes of these legislative events reflect the stance's popularity in public opinion.
The act created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) within the Department of Justice to administer grants for juvenile crime-combating programs (currently only about US$900,000 a year), gather national statistics on juvenile crime, fund research on youth crime and administer four anti-confinement mandates regarding ...
Just days after publication of the newspapers' investigation, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine launched a task force to examine the Department of Youth Services and the state's juvenile justice system.
The case against Victor Malavet marks the first criminal trial arising from a five-year investigation into allegations of abuse at the Sununu Youth Services Center, though unlike the other eight ...
The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA; French: Loi sur le système de justice pénale pour les adolescents) is a federal Canadian statute that covers the prosecution of youths for criminal offences. Coming into effect on April 1, 2003, the Act replaced the Young Offenders Act , which itself was a replacement for the Juvenile Delinquents Act .
Jurors in the first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire’s sprawling child abuse scandal began deliberating Thursday in the case of a former youth detention center worker charged with ...