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Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

The Treatment of Criminals for the Protection of Society

treated (Hare, 1993). They basically do not believe they have a problem. In most cases, people seek treatment because they want to...

Prison and Juveniles

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...

Juveniles and Adult Criminal Sentencing

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

Risk Factors in Criminal Behavior Among Juveniles

Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....

Comparisons Between Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

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...

Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Offenders to Adult Offenders

see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...

Juvenile Delinquency Assessment

In four pages the use of government funds in the treatment and prevention of juvenile delinquency is assessed in order to determin...

Juvenile Crime and Programs of Shock Incarceration and Boot Camps

on the fact that other states are closing their boot camps for lack of funds and poor success rates, Nunnlee commented "at this po...

Correctional Programs/Juveniles

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

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

Alternative Punishments in the Justice System

for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...

Are Incarceration Alternatives Economically Feasible?

In a paper consisting of five pages the different types of incarceration of nonviolent criminals are discussed from a cost perspec...

Criminal Justice System and Race Issues Research Proposal

image of 33.5 million Black people. Theres something wrong with the picture, this stereotype" (p. 235). Despite the low number o...

Prison Numbers and the Canadian Criminal Code

In five pages this paper discusses the rates of incarceration in Canada in a consideration of the Canadian Criminal Code. Seven s...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Criminal Justice Programs, Punishment, and Evaluation Subjectivity

perhaps the most prevalent of all approaches to criminal punishment utilized in the United States, the nation that holds the dubio...

Incarceration Rates and What They Say About Racism in Maryland

18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...

Drug Offenders and Treatment Alternatives

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

Minor Drug Offenses and Incarceration Alternatives

In ten pages this paper discusses the alternatives to incarceration that might be available to minor drug offenders in the crimina...

Punishment for Crime in the U.S. China, Germany, and Israel

Israels rehabilitative methods, a turn toward changing attitudes fostered in great part by public opinion and public policy. Whil...

Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

Programs Targeting Juvenile Crime

gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...

Core Concepts of Juvenile Delinquency

is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...

Street Gangs and Juvenile Delinquency

not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...

Scared Straight

other programs are designed to be more educational with interactive discussions between the inmates and the youth" (Schembri, 2006...

Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

The Reduction in Criminal Offences After Adolescence

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...