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way, anomie is experienced. To Merton, along with the precepts of his social strain theory, one can say that the way in which the ...

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...

in a particular human being, but it recognizes that a set of behaviors, socioeconomic status, biology and so forth create predicto...

unskilled. Many of the skills they acquired were specific. From there, new trades were born. The workers in society were transform...

enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for its presence, as well as the best way to approach therapeu...

Dantzer, 2005). The idea here is that with fewer solid ties to the community, and the lure of easy money, people get lost. They en...

as a whole, criminals have not. Gottredson and Hirschi attribute this failure to inadequate or improper child-rearing which resul...

In ten pages this paper examines drug use as one of the primary juvenile crime causes in a consideration of various theories inclu...

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

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2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...

he saw his little sister having sex, he might have been angry enough to throw something. However, whether or not he is guilty of t...

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...

punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...

effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...

States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...

This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...