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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...
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...
that blockage of these goals can result in delinquency that indicates that deviant behavior is an illegitimate method for achievin...
(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...
The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...
and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...
if this is non bias is present in reality it should be reflected in the way fathers rights are interpreted. However, in UK law and...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
seeds and need punishment. Rather, criminal issues are complicated. In fact, in criminology, the classical school emerged around 1...
of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...
more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...
vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...
the Bloods and the Crips, both originating in Los Angeles (Siegel, Welsh & Senna, 2005). Both gangs mentioned expanded to the poi...
behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
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 ...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
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...