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with an ethical foundation. Out from all the bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: ...

#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...

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...

in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...

the Bloods and the Crips, both originating in Los Angeles (Siegel, Welsh & Senna, 2005). Both gangs mentioned expanded to the poi...

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

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

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

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

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

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...

do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...

help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

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

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