Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency
. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 5 page paper summarizes Simon Singer’s book “Recriminalizing Delinquency” and reacts to it; it also discusses specific and broader factors that may help to account for the move of juveniles into the adult criminal justice system. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_HVSSingr.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
offenders have, until recently, been treated differently than adults in the criminal justice system. Now however more juveniles are being tried and sentenced as adults, for a number of reasons.
While this is praised by some, its debated by others, for the simple reason that children and young people do not have the psychological grounding or life experience to truly
understand all the consequences of their actions (they are particularly poor at connecting present actions with future consequences). It is precisely because they have so little judgment that the juvenile
justice system has always been separate from the adult. Singer investigates the reasons why juvenile delinquency is no longer considered juvenile, but is now being moved into the adult criminal
justice system. Well consider each of the chapters in order. Chapter 1: Recriminalizing Violent Juvenile Crime: In his introductory chapter, Singer says that it wasnt one particular crime or
particular election (crime is always a "hot button" topic in an election year) that led to the recriminalization of juvenile delinquency, but a number of factors. However, they had a
sort of "figurehead" in the case of Willie Bosket, who shot two passengers to death on the New York subway system in 1978 (Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for
a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care as part of the juvenile justice system (Singer, 1996). "He had already
been through numerous juvenile justice agencies and in many juvenile justice facilities" (Singer, 1996, p. 7). Bosket himself had asked for help but none was given; the system simply failed
him, as well as the citizens who depended on it to keep them safe from him. Simon suggests that the occasional violent crime by a juvenile and the attendant publicity
...