Deviant Juveniles: The Victims of Politically Correct Speech, Desired Professionalism, and the American Dream

Every day adults wake up and go to law enforcement agencies that specialize in juvenile justice procedures.  Social service people, police officers, prosecutors, judges, and correctional staff “earn” a salary from placing a juvenile into the system and, at times, subtlety infer that they are doing what is expected of them even if they do not agree with the practices.  This is the excuse that you can find throughout every jurisdiction in the United States regardless of the offense that a juvenile has been arrested for or convicted of.  Politically correct talk appears to be one of the reasons why the archaic practices in the system still exist and no significant reformations are made that would end the arresting and detaining of juveniles in this country.  Poor children are especially affected by this politically correct-common talk and the results of the legal intervention mostly turns into conversations about how bad of a life a child had when they become an adult and stand before a sentencing judge. 

With this being done over-and-over again, one would think that there would be a change in the processes so that juvenile offenders are not just part of a conversation or few remarks made by someone who does not want to be viewed as a jailer for children.  But no, the miscarriages of juvenile justice continue and the practitioners all seem to use these forms of placation – the politically correct-common talk – when anyone asks them about how they can do their jobs and still feel important or serving the public.  Questions obviously arise about the integrity and human decency when such actions take place.  Police officers arresting a child and putting handcuffs on them, taking them to be booked, prosecutors building a case on kids and gunning for a conviction and extended placement in the system, judges sentencing children because it is the law, and correctional staff locking juveniles in buildings for long periods of time is something that is, simply put, wrong when applied to how human beings should be behaving while dealing with children.  Desired professionalism and capitalism are the reasons these legal practitioners are subjugated and “just do their jobs.”  It is acceptable for them to disenfranchise poor kids so that they can take care of themselves and, in many cases, support their children in other words. 

So, this politically correct-common talk is what is used when self-consciousness arises, yet these guilty thoughts are somehow not intertwined with our societal perspective of juvenile justice.  That is, and as previously mentioned, because they are just doing their jobs.  This author believes that the guiltiness that is briefly remarked on during these politically correct spews should be the justice system for kids.  Government for the people, by the people, and of the people includes how all of these people think.  If people who work in the system do not condone the practices and have support from many others when disdain is presented, then why do we not change the system to match our thoughts in this politically correct tongue?  Again, reputations and salaries are the real reasons this change does not come about and the practitioners revert to politically correct statements to hide their shame that they have about themselves for doing their jobs.  Or they have become used to telling people what they want to hear – which is even worse than turning to politically correct statements about unwanted legal practices in the United States. 

             Unusual discourses unfold everyday in society and are rectified so that they do not continue, but when human behaviors in the juvenile justice system – and adult legal system – is examined for what it really is these desired professional reputations and salaries tend to circumvent any progressive ideas that would actually help people and provide justice that is not ancient and based on dumb thinking.  Regarding poor children who are taken advantage of by the system’s practitioners, how cruel can these “professionals” be?  Having a job and fulfilling its duties is one thing, but when some individuals suck up the socioeconomically disadvantaged children and turns them into a professional reputation and annual salary, and then makes politically correct statements to justify their jobs, serious deviant characteristics arise – and the deviancy, in this understanding, is not being performed by the children!  Are we really still arresting and putting children in correctional facilities?  Apparently so.  Deviant professional behaviors producing deviant children.  Messed up, America.