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2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...

States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

vision and they are passionately committed to that vision. The most effective leaders are capable of having others adopt the vis...

An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...

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

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...

This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...

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...

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

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

the streets? Will Valentine disgrace himself in the commodities market? Since this is a comedy, we know the answer to both questio...

see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...