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Surname2. Student’s Name. Professor’s Name. Class. Date

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Surname1Student’s NameProfessor’s NameClassDateJuvenile CrimeJuvenile delinquents are subjected to the consequences of breaking the law through considerate ways rather than being charged with crime as in the case of adults. Different countries have various ways of dealing with juvenile crime. This essay explains how Japan and Germany deals with juvenile delinquency and how their approach differs from the systememployed by the United States.The current Japanese juvenile law stipulates that citizens under the age of twenty are juveniles and the system advocates for protective dispositions aimed at rehabilitation of the juvenile offenders (interdyk, 2017). The penal code denies the ability of minors under the ageof fourteen to commit crime. Measures like placing a minor offender under probationary supervision, committing a juvenile to child education and home training as provided by the Child Welfare Law are used as correctional measures. There is a resort to juvenile imprisonment with prescriptions of maximum and minimum periods in extreme offences.Germany on the other hand consider juveniles to be citizens of below the age of eighteen (Dunkel, 2017). The State Law though considers young adults too between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one to be juveniles. The German system focuses more on education instead of punishing the offenders. Their current system has a reduced custodial sanction of six months, and a maximum of five to ten years. Juvenile offenders in this country are 1
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