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Type 1 Diabetes

was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...

Should Minors be Tried as Adults?

approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...

Steve Christian's 'Out of Lock-UP: Now What?', Juvenile Crime and Drug Use

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

Mixed Method Study and Juvenile Crime Intervention Strategies

The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...

State Government Website Assessment

and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...

Is the Death Penalty for Juveniles Constitutional?

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

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...

Children and Diabetes

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Jury Trials and Juveniles

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...

Life Effects of Insulin

would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...

PA Act 33 and Juvenile Justice

In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...

Juvenile Offenders and Capital Punishment

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

Criminal Law and Current Trends

In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...

Criminal Justice VI

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...

'The Maximum Security Adolescent' by Margaret Talbot

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

US Juvenile Justice System

(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...

Adult Courts' Role and Juvenile Violence

In five pages this paper examines trying juveniles in adult courts in an assessment of the pros and cons of this practice with reh...

Crime, Drugs, Guns, and Juvenile

In 5 pages this paper on juvenile crime discusses the effects of weapons and drugs on its incidences. There are 4 sources cited i...

Youth Offenses, the Juvenile Justice System, and Probation Issues

rather noble institution and embraces the authority to encompass the most important duty imaginable which is to protect and reform...

Definition of Juvenile Gangs and Their Social Implications

gangs also adopt certain types of hairstyles, and communicate publicly, through the use of hand signals and graffiti on walls, str...

The Many Impacts of Domestic Violence

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

Options for Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Crime

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

21st Century Juvenile Justice System in America

a responsive juvenile justice system is critical (Briscoe, 1997). In Texas, for example, children as young as ten will fall und...

Juvenile Criminal Justices Systems of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries

Information about the juvenile system of criminal justice of these three centuries are compared and contrasted. There are 6 bibli...

Overview of Juvenile Gangs

In six pages this paper presents a detailed overview of juvenile gangs in a consideration of their rituals and activities. Six so...

ACA Accreditation and Juvenile Correction Centers

In twenty four pages this paper examines how juvenile correction facilities can be improved through American Correctional Associat...

Edward Humes' 'No Matter How Loud I Shout : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court'

This is a 5 page critical review that criticizes the nation's system of juvenile justice and its many shortfalls, emphasizing the ...

Causes and Solutions Regarding Juvenile Homicide

and 1991, the number of Violent Crime Index arrests for murder increased by 85 percent, compared with 21 percent for those 18 or o...