Digest Crime Control Essay

To begin with an article title “digest crime control” it is said it that a chronic juvenile male or female offender can be tried in adult court depending on how violent the crime is. This was decision was made by the 8th circuit based on case that took place in the district of Nebraska. To summarize the case, it involved a mail offender who beats someone and let him die. When the autopsy came it was proven that 12 hour after he got beaten he could have been saved. The defense team for the juvenile said that the boy was mentally ill and didn’t know what he was doing. But when the circuit looked into his record they saw that this was his first offense with the law and that he had multiple battery charges filled against him for battery. So they circuit had to make the decision that if this wasn’t your first offense for the same type of crime you will be taking into adult court and get tried as an adult. Furthermore usually what turns a teen into a chronic offender is because of the environment they was raised in, and by environment I mean environment such as poverty and what effect that has on them being a chronic offender. This being said because it is proven that base on the environment the kids is raise in will determined the numbers of time he crosses path with the law. For example a kid who grew up in a neighborhood was there’s

In a article written by Claudia E. van der put, she talks about how child maltreatment and the impact of that on a of that on a juvenile behavior. Later on throughout her research she went on and defined what she meant when by maltreatment. She define child maltreatment as it “ involve a wide range of harmful behaviors directed towards children such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. She later on went to explain how these might have different effect on criminal