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to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
While the insanity defense gets a considerable amount of public attention whenever it is used, fewer than 1 percent of all cases s...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
is a vast body of medical literature testifying to the fact that people can become seriously disturbed such that to deny the exist...
and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...
in order to preserve the Republican Party (Welner 1996). As Guiteau explained it: "The express purpose of the president has bee...
punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
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...
accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...
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...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...
Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...
amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
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 paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...
In eight pages the legal system is discussed in an overview of how the insanity defense is used from a psychological point of view...
In eleven pages this paper examines how 'famous' people often use pleas of insanity as defenses. Fourteen sources are cited in th...
not prison. II. THEME OF THE FOUR ARTICLES The theme of these four articles -- Craziness and Criminal Responsibility, Introducti...
In six pages this paper examines various cases in an historical overview of the insanity legal defense. Ten sources are cited in ...
not have full control of their faculties. These orphans of society are often compelled by an emotional or mental imbalance that p...
be considered. Expert witness testimony is necessary and, in fact of law, certain individuals always pose a danger to society or t...