Thread by @michelle_furlow

Good morning, friends! Please join me at 4pm, cst, to discuss juveniles in the juvenile justice system.

Let's start with #CRJ107 #JuvenileDelinquency discussion with a THINKING CHALLENGE ...

At what age should a JV be eligible to be sentenced in the adult court system?

Good afternoon, friends, so we've been starting our discussions a little later this week. Any guesses why our #CRJ107 discussion is starting at 4pm today?

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If you said (d) all of the above, then you are correct!

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But let's start to do our work, so let's get started with the Juvenile Justice System

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What age is TOO young that no offender, regardless of crime, should be waived to the adult system?

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Today we will be examining the goals of the Juvenile Justice system & alternative sentences for juvenile offenders

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Historically, there have been THREE mechanisms to deal with juvenile offenders:
~ In Adult Prisons
~ In Juvenile Prisons
~ Released to Family

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Attitudes about how the system to respond to juvenile offenders has changed over time. At the onset, 1899, juveniles were to be protected, rehabilitated.

This has changed over the past 120 years

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PBS Frontline examined these changing attitudes in this digital special



@frontlinepbs

@wttw

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should juveniles be housed in adult facilities?

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Waiver to adult court is the process by which a juvenile court relinquishes jurisdiction over a juvenile offender, and the case is processed in adult court

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A juvenile who has been waived to adult court is treated like an adult and in many cases subject to the same punishments as adults

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So WHO gets waived to adult court? Let's look at several cases in that court considered so heinous & violent, the offenders were tried as adults.

Anissa Weier And Morgan Geyser

jsonline.com/story/archives…

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So WHO gets waived to adult court? Let's look at several cases in that court considered so heinous & violent, the offenders were tried as adults.

Denver Jarvis, Michael Bent, And Jesus Mendez

palmbeachpost.com/article/201202…

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So WHO gets waived to adult court? Let's look at several cases in that court considered so heinous & violent, the offenders were tried as adults.

Robert Thompson and Jon Venables

inews.co.uk/news/uk/james-…

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So WHO gets waived to adult court? Let's look at several cases in that court considered so heinous & violent, the offenders were tried as adults.

Curtis And Catherine Jones

wtsp.com/article/news/l…

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So WHO gets waived to adult court? Let's look at several cases in that court considered so heinous & violent, the offenders were tried as adults.

Tyler Hadley

rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

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So WHO gets waived to adult court? Let's look at several cases in that court considered so heinous & violent, the offenders were tried as adults.

Ari Morales And Marcelles Peter

richmondconfidential.org/2013/06/24/hau…

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So WHO gets waived to adult court? Let's look at several cases in that court considered so heinous & violent, the offenders were tried as adults.

Cristian Fernandez

jacksonville.com/news/20180109/…

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So WHO gets waived to adult court? Let's look at several cases in that court considered so heinous & violent, the offenders were tried as adults.

Carl Mahan

nytimes.com/1929/05/27/arc…

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One case that brought the #Waiver debate to that national spotlight was the #JonesboroArkansas school shooting in which the shooters were 13 & 11

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American Justice offers an in-depth look at this school shooting:



@BillKurtis1

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Should the #JonesboroArkansas shooters have been released when they reached the age of 21?

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Is there ANY better narrator than @BillKurtis1?

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Juveniles are waived to adult court for three reasons:
~their charges are violent offenses,
~they are chronic offenders,
~and the potential sentences in adult courts are longer than in juvenile court

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A waiver hearing is held in juvenile court and the prosecutor and defense attorney present evidence on whether or not the juvenile should be waived to adult court

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The 2011 @PBS @IndependentLens documentary covering the #CyntoiaBrown case shows the waiver process in detail:

pbs.org/independentlen…

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THINKING CHALLENGE: Are you familiar with the Cyntoia Brown case?

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Are most juveniles waived to adult court accused of violent offenses?

Do juveniles waived to adult court consistently receive more severe sanctions than are available in juvenile court?

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What Happens to Juveniles Waived to Adult Court?

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THINKING CHALLENGE: In your opinion, should juveniles receive:
~ the same
~ better
~ worse
treatment than adults?

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Recent surveys demonstrate that most Americans believe juveniles should be treated the same as adults

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Blended sentencing refers to the imposition of juvenile and/or adult correctional sanctions for serious and violent juvenile offenders who have been processed in the juvenile or adult court.

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Blended sentences and waiver to adult court are not one & the same

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There are five types of blended sentences:
juvenile-exclusive blend,
juvenile-inclusive blend,
juvenile-contiguous blend,
criminal-exclusive blend,
and criminal-inclusive blend.

There are options in housing juveniles in adult facilities

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THINKING CHALLENGE:

Should juveniles be eligible for life without parole?

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THINKING CHALLENGE:

Should juveniles be eligible for life with possibility of parole?

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THINKING CHALLENGE:

Should juveniles be eligible for the death penalty?

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Under the case brought by William Wayne Thompson, the Court ruled that executing juveniles who were under age 16 at the time of the offense would violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment

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Then on March 1, 2005, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Roper v. Simmons that the imposition of the death penalty on juvenile offenders is unconstitutional

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The court ruled that the Eight and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution forbid imposition of the death penalty on offenders who are under the age of 18 when their crimes were committed

deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/…

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George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14, was executed by electric chair in June 19. Stinney was the youngest American confirmed to be sentenced to death and executed in the 20th century

washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m…

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Scott Allen Hain was the last person executed in the United States for crimes committed as a minor. Hain was executed by Oklahoma for a double murder–kidnapping he committed when he was 17 years old

clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/…

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I'm really looking to make my 'twitter' lectures more interactive.

What aspects would you recommend that I include more of?

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What aspects of the lecture would you like to see less?

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Overall, how would you rate today's discussion?

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I will be back online tomorrow discussing Police Officer discretion for my #CRJ201 American Policing class.

I hope you join me! See you then ...

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