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is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...
was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...
II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...
In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...
to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...
century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...
decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...
Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...
for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...