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(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...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
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...
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...
his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...
a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...
similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...
sociological or environmental forces. His statement that biology constitutes the only important factor in causing criminality set ...
an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...
achievement and follow a child into his or her adulthood (Ensign, Scherman, and Clark, 1998). Authors such as Wooten (1959), Vold...
gangs also adopt certain types of hairstyles, and communicate publicly, through the use of hand signals and graffiti on walls, str...
In five pages this paper argues against punishing parents for juvenile delinquent behavior of their children but does strongly rec...
In six pages this paper discusses juvenile case handling in America with the emphasis being upon this Florida state case. Five so...
In five pages social exclusion of children for various reasons are examined within the context of such juvenile literary works as ...
In six pages this paper presents a detailed overview of juvenile gangs in a consideration of their rituals and activities. Six so...
In twenty four pages this paper examines how juvenile correction facilities can be improved through American Correctional Associat...
social factors can be used as the best method to explain juvenile delinquency. Differential Association In 1939 Criminologist Edw...
our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...
In 5 pages this paper on juvenile crime discusses the effects of weapons and drugs on its incidences. There are 4 sources cited i...