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is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
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things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
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...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...
more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...