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with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
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...
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...
emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...
II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
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...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
that the CIA covertly engineered a coup in Iran that overthrew a democratically elected president and instituted a dictatorial rul...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
(2006) commented: "Sleep disturbance from scratching affects the whole family, and witnessing a child scratching their limbs until...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...
(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...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...
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...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
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...