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be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...
was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...
cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...
A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...
II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
(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...
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...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
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...
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...