Juvenile justice is a justice system that was made to protect delinquent offenders it is a system that act as a shield to offenders below the majority age from the criminal system. The establishment of juvenile justice system dates back 1868, it was meant to protect children from the adult way of justice (Taxman, 2014). The main aim of forming the juvenile justice was to encourage the rehabilitation on the basis of the child needs (Robinson, 2014). The system separates young criminals below the age of 17 years from adult criminals. Formation of the system was under the belief that if young people are treated in a fair manner as deserved they will change and become better members of the society (Johnson, 2012). Juvenile Justice was established as a process that moves from one step to the other. The paper intends to open a discourse on the process that is encountered during administering of juvenile justice.
During early 1980s, the juvenile was designed to be harder to the juvenile offenders since significant have been to revise the law to be fairer to the juvenile. One of the outstanding changes that were made concerning the law is the 2003 revision known as the certification or waiver (Johnson, 2012). The revision expanded the type and number of criminal changes that make a youth eligible for adult jail. There are different types of the transfer laws that were amended, the three main types of transfer laws are prosecutorial direct-file, judicial transfer and automatic transfer (Woolard, 2012). The three types of the juvenile justice define what offences minimum age and the charges. Another common mechanism of transfer especially in Columbia is the judicial waiver. In this mechanism, the judges are at liberty to waive or graduate juvenile cases to an adult criminal court. Most states of the United States of America affect the laws as prescribed in their states law (Taxman, 2014). Security analysts argue that the wide spread juvenile transfer process by either of the above mentioned processes has been as a result of an upsurge in violent crimes involving juvenile delinquents. The transfer laws take the following process in their defining and execution.
