The History of Juvenile Justice

Introduction

Youth crime rates have been falling since the 1990s. Those decreased crime rates
have driven several municipalities to revise the practice of draconian youth justice prevalent
in the 1980s and 1990s. The states are now initiating significant structural changes to reduce
social containment, close schools of transformation in the early 19th and 20th centuries, and
expand municipal initiatives. The courts sentenced and condemned young persons in prisons
and prisons at the turn of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Since few such choices, young
people of any age and ethnicity were often indiscriminately relegated to the hardened adult
prisoners and the intellectually ill in vast and overcrowded prisons. Many of those young
people were restricted to non-criminal conduct solely because no such choices existed.
Meanwhile, American cities faced high infant poverty rates and indifference to pressing
community authorities to respond to this emerging social issue.

Part 1

Curfew requirements and laws forbid the stay, residence, or loitering of minors in a
city. However, it is different from sitting there elsewhere. For instance, if a group of
youngsters walks by a public place after the curfew, there is no breach of a curfew. However,
if any young people want to remain behind loiter, they may be against the rules on curfew.

 The four minors all breach the laws of curfew since they loiter after curfew in
the area.
 The young female is in breach of cigarette smoking. Minors violating the
Tobacco Act will be charged up to $100 and be forced to partake in the
tobacco awareness program.

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 The two male minors are in breach with minor drinks. Any individual under
the age of legal drinking and who knowingly owns or drinks alcohol, not
supervised by his or her father, guardian, or partner, is in breach of the
principle. It is undeniable. You have violated the crime if you are not with
your parents under 21 and have or use alcohol.

Part II

First, I would clarify how a curfew might be a positive idea among all four
adolescents. Curfews help teach duty as they have to go back home. Teenagers learn the
order and how to handle their time after school that comes into the modern world. Youth are
going to be young, and a curfew or two of us is missing as teenagers.

What I would like to warn the young woman about her smoking habit is how it causes
inadequate breathing, stinks her clothing and hair, makes her teeth and fingers black, and
hurts her lungs and athletic performance.

I will suggest to the two young teenagers who drink that they ought to drink alcohol
from at least 21 years. This age cap has been set for health protection and reducing the
number of road deaths induced by alcohol. I will clarify to them that alcohol affects their
brain, and the dilemma is that your brain continues to grow

Part III

First and foremost, I believe the two males who have been drinking will be the most
uncooperative. I would ask them if they want to go to jail or go home. I will also inform
them the choice is theirs. It will have no bearing on my judgment on how to treat this
classification violation. I issued them an ultimatum, and I believe it was sufficient to get them
to comply.

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Part IV

I will clarify the offense they have committed to the parents if they fail to come to the
scene to pick up their boy. If they still fail to pick up their boy, I would have to choose
between sending the teen to a detention facility or returning them to their parents. I would
instead do the same because I would imagine that the parent had had time to reconsider their
position by taking them home.

Conclusion

When a child participates in conduct that may not be deemed illegal if committed by
an adult, it is referred to as a "status offense." In other words, the acts are only considered
immoral while the young person is under eighteen. Underage drinking, missing classes, and
breaking a neighborhood curfew are only a few instances of status violations. Arrests,
including status offenses, account for around 20% of all youth arrests annually. The types of
behavior that could be considered a status violation differ from state to state.

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References

Curfew Violations (n.d.) Retrieved from https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/juvenile-
lawstatus-offense/

Dangers of Underage Drinking (2013). Retrieved from
https://www.aggitionresource.com/alcohol/resources/underage-drinking/

Facts About Underage Smoking (2017). Retriev


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