YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Juvenile Delinquency and Sexual Abuse
Essays 31 - 60
In a comprehensive paper consisting of sixty five pages the history of disassociative identity disorder is examined as are its cau...
similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...
Neglected children and adolescents seemed to be harmed just as severely as victims of more active sorts of abuse. Indifference, f...
In five pages child abuse is legally defined and then discussed in terms of memory, sexual abuse, and how to address these problem...
The Journal of Interpersonal Violence was the source for an article on Valerie Whiffen and Melissa Judd's 1999 study on childhood ...
of girls during the same period rose 6% (Siegel and Welsh, 2005). Even more striking and troubling is the fact that arrests for se...
However, in some cases the desired goals would not be equally available to all social groups, in others there might be too...
these things to occur. Interestingly, many stories--not involving Priests-- that surface on the news are the ones of horrific t...
of abuse. In fact, it can be argued that a large percentage of children who are sexually abused become sexual predators in adulth...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
riotous behavior inasmuch as students contend their rights are being violated by the limitation. The issue at hand, points ...
use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...
as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
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...
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...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...
as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...
reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...