Essays 391 - 420
compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...
things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...
if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...