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Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

Overview of the Juvenile Justice System

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...

Setting Appropriate Goals for Children with Disabilities

reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...

2 Theories on Juvenile Delinquency

While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...

Gender, Family/Juvenile Delinquency

one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...

Correctional Programs/Juveniles

decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...

Probation and the Role of Officers

process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...

Rehabilitation in Juvenile Justice

century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...

California Foster Care Agencies and the Criminal Justice System

for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...

Criminal Justice VI

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...

Juvenile Offenders and Capital Punishment

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

Criminal Law and Current Trends

In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...

Research Studies, School Delinquency, and Disruptive Behaviors

programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...

Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

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...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

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...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

PA Act 33 and Juvenile Justice

In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...

Life Effects of Insulin

would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...

Juvenile Delinquency and Drug Use

riotous behavior inasmuch as students contend their rights are being violated by the limitation. The issue at hand, points ...

Using Drugs and Juvenile Delinquency

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

US Corrections of the Future

seeds and need punishment. Rather, criminal issues are complicated. In fact, in criminology, the classical school emerged around 1...

Social Justice and California Juvenile Hall's Minority Student Education

more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...

Mixed Method Study and Juvenile Crime Intervention Strategies

The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...

State Government Website Assessment

and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...

School Truancy, Using Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...

Trying Juveniles as Adults and Crime Deterrence

of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...