The changing demographics and diversity of the U.S. population may affect the operation of juvenile and criminal courts by the effectiveness in properly dealing with new trends in crime and all the costs of hearing and preparing the court cases, and of hiring more people to deal with the increase in crime in the future, and finally the cost of rehabilitating those offenders. Some of the things that could change this are the rise …showed first 75 words of 822 total…

…showed last 75 words of 822 total…as an adult terminates the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over pending and future offenses. This is referred to as "once transferred, and convicted, always transferred." We need to better prepare for the changes ahead so that we can keep crime and costs down so as not to clog the courts and prisons, also we may not have a juvenile court system in the future because more and more juveniles are being tried as adults.