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A 3 page paper making two recommendations to the governor of the state of Illinois for reforming juvenile justice. The recommendations are to exercise fairness throughout the system and to impose accountability on those adolescents who likely have not been required to be accountable at home. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: CC6_KScrimJuvRef.rtf
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pursuing the quest to find the best solutions not only for refining the process of juvenile justice but also in identifying the reasons that juvenile offenders enter the juvenile justice
system often find themselves at a loss in the ability to identify solutions that are both workable and effective. The recommendations contained here likely are not in final form,
but they will provide a beginning point from which the State of Illinois will be able to more effectively deal with juvenile offenders. "Effectiveness" is defined as not only
being expeditious for the Court, but also as being beneficial for the juvenile. The juveniles family should gain benefit as well, but the judicial system will not be able
to count on partnership with parents. Too many of Illinois juvenile offenders have little or no parental input in their lives as it is, a fact that often leads
them to the juvenile justice system. Recommendations 1. Exercise Fairness at All Junctures One of the persistent negative features of the criminal
justice system across the country is the overrepresentation of minorities - particularly black males - in the system. This lack of balance carries over to Illinois juvenile justice system
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has
been true for years in Illinois; the difference today is that many of those who are "different" carry physically distinguishable attributes; maintain religious practices unfamiliar to most of the rest
of us; or speak languages that passersby do not understand. Connecticuts Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee (2001) states that "minorities are overrepresented in the
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