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part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...
does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...
from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...
by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
In four pages this paper argues that children should not be legally punished as adults and confined to separate juvenile detention...
In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...
In twelve pages this paper examines how juvenile delinquency and domestic violence increases are affected by substance abuse in th...
Juvenile delinquency and gang violence are subjects discussed in the scope of this research report. Legal reassures, prevention an...
those who already have a predilection to antisocial behavior are far more likely to take the bait of such mind numbing media than ...
relates to ones personal development, which has been suspected of influencing the rising violent tendency of juveniles. II. TELEV...
sociological or environmental forces. His statement that biology constitutes the only important factor in causing criminality set ...