When you are a kid you make many bad choices that can affect your future. Don’t make dumb decision just because you want to fit in with the crowd. When I was a young I made a choice that messed up my future. It messed up my future because it will be with you with me for the rest of my life also your family forgets about you and had probation. Many choices you do as a kid can affect you when you become an adult. My personal experience that I’m going to talk about is when I went to jail for stealing and vandalism joyriding, grand theft auto, and resisting arrest. This choice I mad showed me who …show more content…
I later had later found out that my record will never be cleared from something I did when I was a kid and not thinking about the future. Doesn’t matter where I had gone my record will always be with me. Me being a dumb kid and follow other kids had messed up our lives. I’ve learn to not be a follower but to become a great leader. The judge had sentenced me 3 years in Jacksonville county jail and 5 out on probation but I had end up serving one year in Jacksonville county jail and 7 years on probation with an ankle bracelet. This punishment taught me a lot. For one thing the kids who were with me had put all the blame on me therefore I was severing time for something I did not do …show more content…
Every two weeks I had a drug test and I had to go to drug classes also I had to be home at seven on the dot every day if I was ever late by even a minute I would be violated probation and sentenced 21 day in jail. Being on probation I had to wear an ankle monitor so the police department would know where I was24/7. If I had l let the ankle monitor go dead police would arrive at my house to check if I was home make sure I did not leave. So because I had a job my curfew had got excuse so whatever time work was over I would have to be home right after work. I got a job so it can keep me off the street and keep me out of trouble. Probation was the worst because I had to listen to what people told me to do and I don’t like people telling me what to do. Probation was better than being in jail because I was home with my family but had to be on an ankle
In the book, Samenow strongly emphasizes that children become delinquent by choice. The theory of choice holds that youths will engage in delinquent and criminal behavior after weighing the consequences and benefits of their actions. Delinquent behavior is a rational choice made by a motivated offender who perceives that the chances of gain outweigh any possible punishment or loss. (Siegel & Welsh, 2011)
Thus, the shifting perceptions of the justice system has transformed what it means to be a child and an adult due to their pervasive, and punitive approaches to crime and delinquency. Although adolescents today enjoy many new freedoms and greater time to experiment, those that don’t conform to “normative behaviors” and engage in socially constructed definitions of delinquency, often end up under the firm hands of the juvenile justice system. Despite the creation of this phase in an adolescent’s life, the injustices within the adult justice system have breached into the juvenile system, thus, blurring the lines of what it means to be an adolescent in modern times. Thereby, the adolescent stage is constantly being manipulated to conform and match the social construction of crime and delinquency, and the rise in the practice of trying juveniles as adults within the court system and mandating life sentences is evidence of this
The United States Criminal Justice System has several options available when it comes to sentencing. Probation is one that we hear of most when it comes to first time offenders as well as juvenile offenders. John Augustus first developed probation in Boston in 1841. The first probation law was enacted in Massachusetts in 1878. By the 1990’s the juvenile justice system was far more effective as it began taking greater measures. In 2010, probation was used in approximately 53 percent of juvenile delinquency cases. Typically, probation sentences are circumstantial, and are imposed under very specific terms and conditions. These must be followed by the defendant unless he or she would like to return
When a juvenile is presented in the adult justice system, there is very little options to correct bad behaviors. However, in a juvenile court, there are many options that are available such as house arrest, curfews, community service, counseling, and jail. With these options available and many others, juveniles have a chance to correct poor judgement choices without spending majority of their life in jail. Studies have shown that juveniles who have been tried as adults and been sentenced harsh punishments have a higher chance of committing a crime sooner than those tried in the juvenile system.
Going to a public school and being around people who do not have these same beliefs can put pressure on one to do things that they are against. I was always quite the angel until I met a boy that I fell in love with and I started to do the things he did. He snuck me out all of the time, I went to parties with him and did some illegal things that I have always told myself that I would never do in my life. The funny part about it is, in the Bible it says something along the lines of, “your sin will seek you out”. Of course, my sin did “seek me out”. I got caught sneaking out, I got caught drinking in my basement, and I have also been caught high before all by my mom. Sure enough I got in a load of trouble but that is how it works. I grew up with a strict mom and usually when kids are being told not to do something all their life, all they want to do is go do it just to see what really is so wrong about it. Through all of this I have grown and have learned so many things. From the things my mom has taught me and the things the culture of those around have taught me, I have learned it all for a reason; consequently, they have shaped me into who I am
According to Hill Harper,“Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism”(Hill Harper, 1966). Once you’re claimed to be a criminal the likelihood of you continuing your past behavior skyrockets. As a child, I believedI grew up believing that we all make mistakes and that the only way forward is to learn from them. To push yourself through the whatever wall that you have’ve created is the same as building your future block by block. However, it seemsseemsis seemingly impossible to push forward after society has tagged you a felon. Therefore,, the wall created seems to be built to be unbreakable. Felons have virtually no ability to be reintroduced into society, and
I want to be a good role model for my little cousins and for them to be able to look up to me. I dislike that my mother is wondering how she could have done something different so that I would not have acted the way I did and done the things that I did, it is not her fault. My family is also disappointed in me because I was their little girl that never did anything wrong and all of a sudden I am being arrested for trespassing. Disappointing your family is one of the worst feelings I can imagine and makes me regret my actions. Not only is my family affected but also my friends. They are now seen as associates with a criminal and it ruins their reputation as well. In my case, my best friend was with me when the trespassing occurred so her family, friends, and reputation are also affected. Some people or friends might say that it is cool to have been arrested but it is nowhere close to cool. I am ashamed of my actions and just going through the process of being arrested and booked scared me half to death. Sitting in a cell, crying and shaking, having no idea of how you are going to tell your mother and just being scared is not cool. Doing something wrong is not
Each year more offenders are sentenced to probation than to any other sanction in the criminal justice system. There are more offenders on probation than in prisons and jails combined. The reasons for the increasing use of probation are clear enough: probation can be provided at more than five times less cost than jail and nearly 19 times less cost than state prison. Probation can offer a cost-effective
Being convicted of a crime sometimes results from an every day act such as vandalizing a vacant parking lot, other times it can be stealing candy from a convenient store, yet ra...
Kids are like sponges, they have the capacity of absorbing everything that is around them. If a kid grows with an unstable family and around a bad environment they will only become as bad as the individuals around them. This is because they do not know any better. This factor should be put into thought when a juvenile receives a sentence for a crime, especially if the crime was something as big as murder.
When you do something bad in society, such as commit a crime, you are punished. Your punishment can be a fine, or depending on the severity, a prison sentence. After you do your sentence you are then placed on parole. Parole is things that you can and cannot do. They are rules that have to be followed. If these rules are broken, then that revokes your parole and back to prison you go. You have to understand the terms of your parole to the fullest. Certain things you did before you did your time, you won’t be able to do once released. One big factor is hanging around convicted felons. This will have you back in the hole. Somewhere were most people do not want to be.
The increased growth of probationers has placed a strain on the workload of probation officers throughout time creating a less personal approach to community corrections (Still et. al., 2016). A revamping, restructuring, as well as revision of the revenue allotted to community corrections, is required to allow for an increased success rate of probation. As noted earlier in my response, the majority of offenders within the United States are assigned to community corrections shifting away from incarceration. This shift is setting the stage for an opportunity to revise the way probation and parole are handled to allow for an increased success rate of reform through the use of proven effective rehabilitation strategies similar to those used by John Augustus.
A minority of them can feel regret and will change with help and rehabilitation. While they are paying their sentences in a Juvenile hall some of the offenders could want to change and be better person. In Gail Garinger’s article “ Juveniles Don't Deserve Life Sentence” (Garinger 93) she stated that “ As a former juvenile court judge I have seen firsthand the enormous capacity of children to change and turn themselves. The same malleability that makes them vulnerable to peer pressure also makes them promising candidates for rehabilitation” This means that they can be influenced by friends, family or someone just as they choose the wrong path so they can choose the same right again. For example Marquese from the documentary ‘ Juvenile Justice’ He has been on probation and spent time in juvenile hall, at the juvenile camp, and at the California Youth Authority. He was recently most charged with auto theft and residential burglary. He testified that he began doing bad things when he was at a young age. Now he says that he wants to changed and that he knew what he did was wrong. This truly prove that juvenile offender can be easily influenced Marquese’s mother testified that she was the one who taught Marquese to steal at an early age. Now his mother is being rehabilitated and also Marquese. These
...o our red van not saying a word to me. On the drive home she gave me my punishment. The punishment was that I was to be grounded for an entire month, and reap the consequences with the law. I ended up sitting in my house for the first month of summer and losing two-hundred and eighty dollars, which was my fine for stealing.
The corrections program was similar to law enforcement, so I switched to the correction alternative because I still wanted to be associated with law enforcement. I was hired on at a juvenile detention center as a juvenile correction officer. I thought that this was my opportunity to do something to help these kids, don't get me wrong I did not think I could help or save the world, I just thought I would or could make a difference in one life that it was all worth the hassle. Well I was wrong, my first day of on the job training we had to restrain a kid who was out of control, it only got worse from there on. It seemed like an everyday occurrence in this place; the kids were ok most of the time, but it only took one kid in a bad mood to set the other 40 kids off then it turns into a big problem.