What Are the Current Policies and Practices Are for Substance Abuse and Juvenile Delinquency?

Question by CoeCoe: What are the current policies and practices are for substance abuse and juvenile delinquency?
I am writing a research paper and the topic is juvenile delinquency with a focus on substance abuse. I am trying to find current policies and practices that need to be addressed and what improvements can be made. I am having a hard time finding anything on the internet or through EBSCOhost. I am also trying to find some historical perspective on the subject and how the current policies and practices evolved to the present status.

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Answer by WATCHDOG
This online essay may give you some ideas for a paper.}{

Dealing with juvenile’s who commit crimes is a major issue in our society today. In most states a minor is considered to be someone who is under 18 years of age. Persons who are minors do not have legally binding signatures, they cannot legally hold a job with out a parent’s permission, nor can they rent an apartment, buy a car, or have a credit card. They cannot vote, and no medical procedure can be performed on them with out parental permission either. Yet somehow, when minors commit crime they are punished as individuals whether it is in adult or juvenile court. Most states employ methods such as putting juveniles on house arrest, sending them to boot camp, or putting them on probation. As Rita Kramer puts it in her essay ‘Juvenile Justice is Delinquent’: “[The juvenile Justice system] was designed to function as a kind of wise parent providing rehabilitation” (Kramer 656). What about the juvenile offenders actual parents? If a minor cannot work or be operated on with out a parent’s permission why should they be punished with out parental involvement? Many minors do have “…families who undertake to be responsible for them” (Kramer 658) d

Recently, incidents of mass murder involving minors have been a major problem and tragedy. In places like Colorado, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Arkansas minors walked into a classroom and began randomly spraying bullets at their classmates. A tragedy like this is inevitably going to cause people to want to throw blame but doesn’t it seem odd that no one noticed any signs that these children were upset before the tragedy occurred? If they do not at least have a moral obligation, parents have a legal obligation to properly care for their children. Children can be taken away from their parents and put into foster care if a social worker determines that the parents are negligent. Some examples of what is considered negligence are: A child hurting itself due to lack of supervision; a family members physically abusing a child; or the conditions a child lives in being too filthy. If parents are legally responsible to care for their children then shouldn’t they be held at least somewhat responsible if the child commits a crime? Couldn’t it also be considered negligence when a parent is not properly supervising their child and they go and commit a crime?

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