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#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...

the juveniles who are punished through the adult court (Urbina and White, 2009, p. 122). Ostensibly, the purpose of transferring y...

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

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

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...

Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...

approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...

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

In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...

from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...

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

This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the trying of juvenile offenders in adult courts. Insights are derived from an anno...

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...

In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...

development necessarily flourish from assuming they want to and will fit into what is needed or what exists" (Schimel, 2008). ...

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

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...

part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...

of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...