Historically the goal of Juvenile Justice is the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders (Steward-Lindsey, 2006). Those that are past the point of rehabilitation or cannot be rehabilitated are referred to adult court. Research has shown that transferring juveniles to adult court actually is a probable cause of recidivism. The juvenile becomes hardened and more criminalized while incarcerated in an adult facility. All juveniles were tried and sentenced as an adult before the 1800s. Out of growing
An important factor that influenced the outcome of criminal slave trials in the American South was whose interests were being protected. This factor is crucial because it links back to the other determinants of the trial outcomes, e.g. the influence exerted in the court based on the magistrates’ prior stance, the perceived aftermath of the criminal slave trials and the backlash some interests groups might have created with certain outcomes of the trials. ‘The fact that slaveholders could influence
up 40% of all shootings, while black men make up only 6% of the U.S. population. But there has been no report of police shootings and killings of an unarmed black woman. More than 90% of fatal police shootings are men (Krayewski ,2014). A fairer analysis, at ProPubican, found that black males aged 15 to 19 were 21 times more likely to be killed by police than white males in that same age group (Rosenthal, 2015). With all the facts and statistics, proves that more black me are killed by police officers
In the mid to early Nineteenth Century many states reduced the number of capital crimes. In 1846, Pennsylvania became the first state to move execution away from the public hanging. When hangings happened everybody could come see the person get executed. In 1846, Michigan became the first state to abolish the death penalty for all crimes. A short time later, Rhode Island and Wisconsin abolished the death penalty for all crimes too. Even though there were states that abolished the death penalty,