Juvenile Court Juvenile criminal justice system has enforced laws, which govern the rules for determining whether a juvenile criminal is eligible for a sentence or a counseling period is mandatory to alter the behaviors of such individuals. This system has been effectively placed for children less than the age of 21 who have reportedly committed crimes in various forms such as sex offenders; murderers etc. (Whitehead & Lab, 2012). In this aspect, several crimes have taken place in USA marking the statistics in the country by 32% of the total juvenile crime statistics (Whitehead & Lab, 2012). In this essay, a case study of one of the most fierce juvenile crime acts have been presented which explains a situation where the juvenile criminal was at first ordered to be treated as an adult for the sentence purposes due to committing first degree of the crime. However, later due to his age was sent back to receive juvenile trial. The case explains the crime as of an eleven-year-old boy who murders his father's pregnant girlfriend killing both the woman and her unborn fetus. The eleven-year-old murderer named Jordan Brown uses to live with his father, his girlfriend Kenzie Marie Houk and her two daughters aged 4 and 7 years old in Pennsylvania in their farmhouse (Jones, 2012). The murder case published in USA Today discusses the event that took place when the juvenile murderer, now fourteen years old, was only eleven at the time when he used gunshots to kill his father's girlfriend. The proceedings on the case reveal dual opinions on whether the crime committed by Jordan brown is deliberately planned and organized or the child was suffering through some mental sickness (Jones, 2012). This also gives rise to whether Houk's behavior initiated him to take such an extreme step or he developed assumptions or insecurities with his father being committed to Houk and having a new child from her. The unborn child could have been a major factor...
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