The Possibilities and Methods of Increasing Parental Responsibility for Juvenile Delinquents

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The US federal government has enacted laws to deal with juvenile offenders in a unified way of 1974 juvenile justice and illegal law. The law provides for the administration of the juvenile delinquency strike program (currently about $ 900,000), the collection of national statistics on juvenile delinquency, and the Juvenile Justice Crime Control Office (OJJDP) within the Ministry of Justice for financing youth crime research It has established. Then, manage four antispecific work on juvenile custody. Specifically, the operation command:

Changes in the juvenile justice system reflect the tendency of juvenile delinquency across the country and also reflects the US response to these trends. Since the juvenile crime rate is rising in the past 30 years, policy makers are penalized more strictly for juvenile offenders. Due to a more conservative political environment and lack of financial resources, juvenile justice has shifted from early rehabilitation goals to more punitive approaches. As the incidence of juvenile offenses increased, the number of juveniles at detention facility increased, and in the ten years from 1987 to 1997 the number of juveniles at detention facility increased five-fold (Steketee 1989).

In 1974, the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act was passed and it became an important milestone in the history of juvenile delinquency. Since the establishment of the Juvenile Court, this act was the most fundamental change in juvenile justice. The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act has five main points. First, in order to prevent status offenders from being considered illegal, we stipulate legalization of status offenders. Second, regulating the institutionalization of juvenile correction so that only the most serious juvenile offenders are subject to imprisonment. In addition, the law stipulates that stakeholders should not be institutionalized, and that boys in adult prisons and prisons should be separated by visual and auditory senses of adults. Third, it expands the use of relocation as an alternative to the formal handling of the Juvenile Court. Fourth, it continues to be applied to the minor's legal proceedings