Instructions
Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the assessor will use to evaluate your submission, and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.
First, imagine that you are taking on one of the following roles. If possible, take on a role that you have not had in your profession:
- Law enforcement
- Prosecutor
- Social worker
- Another role in the process
Next, review the case study:
A 15-year-old holds up a corner convenience store using a gun. Although the offender threatened the clerk with the gun, no one was injured. The 15-year-old has no prior record. The offender did run from police when he spotted them coming up the walk to his house but, once apprehended, he did not resist arrest in any other way.
The father of the offender is currently serving a prison sentence for assault, and has a prior arrest for drug possession. The son reports that he recalls his father being intoxicated, often not home, and belligerent when he was present.
The offender’s mother works two jobs, and therefore the offender is without supervision for long periods. The mother does not have any criminal record. Upon contact, she was concerned about her son. However, she said that she could not come to an intake meeting conference at the requested time for fear of being fired from her job. The offender’s grandmother lived in the same apartment with the offender and his mother, providing supervision, but she died one year ago.
Since the grandmother’s death, the offender has been suspended from school for a minor altercation and is frequently truant. Prior to the grandmother’s death, the offender had good attendance.
The offender does admit to the crime but will not provide information about how the gun was acquired; however, it likely was acquired from another youth in the neighborhood.
In 750 to 1,000 words, do the following.
- Recommend the offender in the case study to either family and juvenile court or adult criminal court based on a particular perspective, such as a prosecutor, a judge, or a social worker.
- Recommend a sentence for the offender and explain the rationale.
- Support your recommendation with evidence from the learning resources and the case study.
In 250 to 500 words, respond to the following. Recall that this portion of your document is your analysis and reflection, the audience for which is your assessor in this competency only.
- Analyze the long-term effects of a juvenile entering the criminal justice system.
- How do you predict those effects playing out for the offender for whom you made a recommendation in Part 1?
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[ANSWERED] JD2004 Criminal Courts and Juvenile Offenders
- Support your assertion with examples from the learning resources and your response in Part 1.
SAMPLE
Assignment: Criminal Courts and Juvenile Offenders
(a) Recommend the offender in the case study to either family and juvenile court or adult criminal court based on a particular perspective, such as a prosecutor, a judge, or a social worker.
The recommendation for this child will depend on the nature of the crime. The teen threatened a clerk with a gun, and police appeared and arrested him without struggle. Since this child’s major crime is threatening the clerk, it will be easy to resolve the problem because of no casualties. The solution to the problem needs individuals who can advise correctly. With options like family, juvenile court, and criminal court, the best option would be juvenile court because the child is 15 years old. By elimination method, the family cannot be the best result because the child’s mother works two jobs and is always busy, the grandmother died a year ago, and the father is in jail. There seems to be no one to take care of the child; therefore, the family is not an option.
