Juvenile Incarceration and State Secret Privilege Project

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Juvenile Incarceration and State Secret Privilege
Juvenile incarceration and state secret privilege are some of the controversial systems in the United States justice systems that have remained controversial for many years. The first involves rehabilitation of youth criminal offenders while the latter involves the government throwing out cases in courts touching on ‘government secrets’. The annotations are articulated to my topic albeit inclined towards finding a better solution to youth incarceration in the US through reducing juvenile recidivism and crime rate; and providing expert views on the use of state secret privilege.
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 public is not ready to embrace reforms that could lead to lesser crime by juveniles if it eats into their resources.
Hsu, C. (2012, May 8). 'Cold-Hearted' Psychopaths Are Born with Distinct Brains, Existing Treatments May Be Useless. Retrieved from /: /cold-hearted-psychopaths-are-born-distinct-brains-existing-treatments-may-be-useless-240366
Research has shown some people have been born more aggressive and thus they are likely to commit a crime for the slightest provocation. It is a phenomenon branded ‘warrior gene,’ and sociologists relate it to juvenile delinquency. Studies show that brains of psychopaths are structurally different. Consequently, the overt behavior of born criminals overcomes nurture principle. Nature takes precedence in defining the character of the person and therefore incarceration is sure way of protecting the public from such individuals. In the article, the need to weed out the socially unfit individuals is a process that nets even the juveniles to maintain the social order. The efforts to rehabilitate individuals are futile as the distinctive characteristics of their brains are wired to commit crimes and therefore, the best alternative is incarceration to reduce the interaction of such individuals with the public. This article, therefore, offers insightful information on why youth incarceration is justifiable.
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