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juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
treated (Hare, 1993). They basically do not believe they have a problem. In most cases, people seek treatment because they want to...
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...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
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...
In four pages the use of government funds in the treatment and prevention of juvenile delinquency is assessed in order to determin...
on the fact that other states are closing their boot camps for lack of funds and poor success rates, Nunnlee commented "at this po...
decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...
In a paper consisting of five pages the different types of incarceration of nonviolent criminals are discussed from a cost perspec...
image of 33.5 million Black people. Theres something wrong with the picture, this stereotype" (p. 235). Despite the low number o...
In five pages this paper discusses the rates of incarceration in Canada in a consideration of the Canadian Criminal Code. Seven s...
"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...
perhaps the most prevalent of all approaches to criminal punishment utilized in the United States, the nation that holds the dubio...
18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
In ten pages this paper discusses the alternatives to incarceration that might be available to minor drug offenders in the crimina...
Israels rehabilitative methods, a turn toward changing attitudes fostered in great part by public opinion and public policy. Whil...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...
other programs are designed to be more educational with interactive discussions between the inmates and the youth" (Schembri, 2006...
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...