This can be done by intervention, recreation and even community involvement. As life has not given us all a guide to becoming the perfect parent, there are available programs that can properly inform parents on how to raise healthy children. Such programs can bring awareness to families involving the negative effects that gangs, sex, drugs, and weapons can have on them in the long run; even community involvement like girl scouts, boy scouts and church groups can open up a safe opportunity to interact with society safely. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention stated that “All youth in the United States, including system-involved youth, have the right to publicly funded education. The question is not whether to provide education services for system-involved youths, but which types of programs are most effective” (The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2014, pp. 4). Providing education and any other courses for self-improvement can protect the delinquent by not carrying those burdens into …show more content…
On the legal aspect of it all, juveniles can be fully capable of committing the same crimes that adults do, however, their legal protections come into play after discussing the propriety of the crime. For example, in 2005, a landmark case known as Roper v. Simmons, resulted in a decision where the Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed under the age of 18 (Death Penalty Information Center, 2016). It has been concluded that younger brains are not fully developed, and Roper v Simmons implies the legitimacy of that