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The Death Penalty, 2002; p. 22). They offer up the following questions which plague the country in regards to capital punishment: ...
This paper argues that taking another life is wrong regardless of what the individual has done. There are three sources listed in...
the statute was unconstitutional in its application" (p.132). There had been 5 people exonerated on Death Row in this state, but...
organization ("Federal Bar Association: Puerto Rico Chapter," 2008). That is quite impressive. It is an award winning office and i...
that certain methods are barbaric and it is true, as Koch (1985) points out that the injection had been substituted. Yet, Koch (19...
housing a prisoner for life ("Revenge" 21). Social research suggests that support for the death penalty in the US stems from "vigi...
17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
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...
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...
This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...
This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...
While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...
in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...
and process evidence with the intent of catching the perpetrator. While not all sudden unexpected death is of a criminal nature, ...
effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...
accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...
fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...
Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....
of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...
This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...
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...
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...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...