There is intent to protect the children in the juvenile court system which is not carried over to the adult defendant. The intent of the adult legal system is typically focused on punishment for the crime committed whereas the juvenile courts are focused on rehabilitation and getting the help needed for the juvenile offender to lead a productive life...
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There is intent to protect the children in the juvenile court system which is not carried over to the adult defendant. The intent of the adult legal system is typically focused on punishment for the crime committed whereas the juvenile courts are focused on rehabilitation and getting the help needed for the juvenile offender to lead a productive life...
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Rehabiliate Don't Punish A prosecutor has a built in bias; the decision should be left to a judge who would look in the best interest of the convicted person. The statistics prove that housing children with adults can only have a disastrous outcome for the juvenile...	3 / 590
Juvenile Punishment and Rehabilitation On the other hand, adult system with much greater punishments has shown results of lower crime rate. Over the same time span, the adult murder arrest rate dropped 7%, and violent crime arrest rose by only 31% (Levitt)...	2 / 462
Juveniles Sometimes this is a discretionary waiver, where the prosecutor files a motion to have the young offender tried as an adult. After a hearing, where evidence is presented for and against a waiver, the judge decides whether the offender should be tried as a juvenile or an adult...	3 / 634
Juvenile Court Comparison There are several programs that the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission created to reform child offenders. In North Carolina the first Juvenile court was established in 1868...	3 / 774