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the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
(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...
While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...
that depression may be a risk factor. Depression causes many different feelings and conditions such as the inability to concentrat...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...
one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
first began to describe a recognizable pattern of birth defects that are attributable to alcohol exposure in the late 1960s. Since...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
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...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...
by which to vent their anger, which can translate into juvenile delinquency. It is important for the student to realize that aggr...
In five pages Australia is the focus of this inquiry into the relationship between juvenile delinquency and crime with topics incl...
an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...
achievement and follow a child into his or her adulthood (Ensign, Scherman, and Clark, 1998). Authors such as Wooten (1959), Vold...
his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...