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parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...
to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...
is one of personal lifestyle choice, such as a choice to continue a family tradition of gang affiliation, for instance. The model ...
turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...
want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...
Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...
has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...
Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...
part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...
decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...
process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...
century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...
one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...
was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
also appear to be constantly fueling the social problem of illegal drug use and drug-based criminal behaviors. In essence, the s...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
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...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...