For this assignment, identify a current event (between the time of 2015-current) that identifies a juvenile offender event.

Include in your submission a link to the source that helped you identify the current event for my personal review.

Describe the incident as reported across media and then describe the event in your own words.

Identify the main issue involved with juvenile actions.

Are there any background events that led the juvenile to engage in such behavior?

How was this addressed in the criminal justice environment? What was the law enforcement response and what was the sentence or trial outcomes?

Some ideas include juvenile bullying, murder, manslaughter, vehicle theft, mass shootings, gang involvement, human trafficking, etc.

Your submission may be a paper to which you answer each question thoroughly and individually with a subheader of each portion of the assignment

Answer preview

The incident as reported across media.

According to the Deseret news media, District judge Brent West rejected the motion to send the case of 16-year-old Marilee Gardner to the juvenile court. The offender was accused of killing two people by intentionally crashing her car into them. Therefore, the judge insisted that the double murder case for this crime will remain the adult court. The judge argued that under…