Annotated Bibliography: Juvenile Incarceration In USA
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Select a controversial criminal justice issue for your Final Project and, in one paragraph, explain why you selected it.
Submit the selected issue to your Instructor for approval.
The Final Project consists of an annotated bibliography and a 4–5 page argument based on a criminal justice issue of your choosing. An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to scholarly articles with a brief descriptive and evaluative paragraph of the article (called an annotation). The annotation highlights the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the source cited. Once you complete the annotated bibliography, you develop a 4–5 page argument to support or oppose the criminal justice issue selected.
Select a controversial criminal justice issue. You may select one of the issues covered in the course or another issue of interest to you.
Use the Walden library to search for articles related to the criminal justice issue you selected.
Select five articles in support of your issue and five articles in opposition of your issue.
Review each article and write a 150–200 word annotation for each article (consider relevance, accuracy, and quality of the source of information).
Develop an argument for or against the selected criminal justice issue. (You must select one side of the issue and argue in support of the side you select.)
14–15 pages total for Final Project submission (10 pages of annotations, 4–5 page descriptive narrative synthesizing the articles you selected and justifying your argument).
The 10 pages adding to after summit the seleted issues to instructor for approval
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Annotated Bibliography: Juvenile Incarceration In USA
Matsuda K.N (2009) The Impact of Incarceration on Young Offenders: Irvine. University of California
Matsuda is an experienced scholar in criminal justice system in the USA and its corresponding impact it as on the offenders and the society at large. In this dissertation, she sought to find out how the judicial systems in America differentiate a juvenile from an adult when handling young offenders’ cases and their corresponding impact on recidivism. She also finds out on what importation and deprivation factors predict the recommitment of young offenders and if there exist graded age differences that explain future behavior. In her study, he opines that the public favors youth incarceration for their crimes. The public opinion seems to be pegged on personal experiences that arise from recommitment after incarceration. The public opinion also seems to incline to the rehabilitation of juveniles rather than incarceration in adult facilities if they are found to be likely to avoid recommitment. The Deprivation Development Theory featured in this research posits that pro-youth incarceration is more likely to hinder the transition to adulthood and less likely to achieve the goal of recidivism.
Piquero, A. R., & Steinberg, L. (2010). Public Preferences For Rehabilitation Versus Incarceration Of Juvenile Offenders. Journal of Criminal Justice, 38(1), 1-6.
Piquero and Steinberg conducted a study to uncover the public opinion on youth incarceration. In this journal, the aim was to establish the public preference on whether children should be incarcerated or rehabilitated. The research was designed to cover four extensive states with different demographic qualities and political orientation. The methodology was designed to uncover the public standpoint in matters youth incarceration and how they perceive corrective facilities about their taxes. The study uncovered that public interest on youth incarceration is influenced by their tax that goes into rehabilitation of young offenders. If rehabilitation is cheaper, the public becomes inclined to choose rehabilitation over incarceration and not based on the outcome of the correctional facilities. Pegging efficacy of correctional facilities on the direct impact on resources of the study sample showed that the general public is not ready to embrace reforms that could lead to lesser crime by juveniles if it eats into their resources.
Schwartz, I. M., Guo, S., & Kerbs, J. J. (1993). The Impact Of Demographic Variables On Public Opinion Regarding Juvenile Justice: Implications For Public Policy. Crime & Delinquency, 39(1), 5-28.
In this study, Ira M. Schwartz sought to investigate the public standpoint on the punitive juvenile justice system in the USA. The researchers had a methodology that was designed to explore the relationship between demographic variables and opinions towards trying juveniles in adult courts. The study also delved further to the corresponding sentences given to young offenders and their incarceration in adult correctional facilities. The research showed that majority of the respondents favored trying juveniles in adult courts and sentencing them to adult prisons especially for serious felonies. The research also showed that African -American parents preferred punitive juvenile justice system than any other racial or ethnic group. It is a startling finding although Blacks are the majority youth offenders serving in various state and federal prisons for various felonies. The punitive juvenile justice system is depicted to be widely approved for serious felonies rather than alternative rehabilitation programs that could reduce recidivism or juvenile delinquency at large.
BIBLIOGRAPHY \l 1033 Talbot, J. C. (2008, March 29). The Punitive Mind-Set and Its Consequences. Retrieved from http://ezinearticles.com: http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Punitive-Mind-Set-and-Its-Consequences&id=1076462
Talbot defends the juvenile judicial system in the USA by articulating that punitive measures are better that rehabilitation as all offenders must be held accountable for their actions irrespective of their age. He asserts that humans are social and any threat to the social order is a personal disposition and an obvious sign that he/she cannot conform to the social order. Incarceration of youths is, therefore, in the best interest of maintaining that social order. The emotional burden harbored by some members of the society is unwavering and will pursue their goals of inflicting pain and victimizing more people if left within the society. To accurately address their overly maligned behavior, they ought to serve jail terms to avoid victimizing more people of threatening the social order. Talbot openly dismisses the idea of rehabilitation and depicts it as a vehicle of condoning felonies to live within the society shortly after they are given a chance to reflect on the harm they caused the society.
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