YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Its Past Police Discretion and Juvenile Justice
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This research paper pertains to the history of juvenile courts and describes how it has changed over the course of the twentieth c...
must always play a part in police work, discretion is a more arbitrary practice (Bronitt and Stenning, 2011). For example, where a...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
is the responsibility of the criminal and juvenile justice systems to prosecute all violations of the law, and ... failure to do s...
force they can join an existing municipal force or contract with the RCMP or the provincial police in order to police the area (Mc...
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...
This thirty page paper presents an overview of the Explorers Program, a program that allows juveniles to accompany police officers...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
firing guns and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic, then turned over the ominous recording to a clerk at Circuit City in Mount Lau...
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...
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...
amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...
not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...
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...
This paper consists of eight pages and discusses policing function, trends, and issues including training and powers of discretion...
In sixteen pages this paper examines the importance of discretion in community policing with issues including training, ethics, Fo...
In an essay consisting of twelve pages the process involved in becoming a New York City Police Department auxiliary police officer...
if they will make an arrest it is apparently the case that they do not need to witness the crime, but can make their own judgments...
punish and which to ignore, they are said to be using discretion" (Gaines and Miller, 2009, p. 155). For example, it is not even f...