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and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
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...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
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...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
(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...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
Criminal justice has benefitted tremendously from recent scientific and technological improvements. Crime scene investigators no ...
Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...
prison. In the United States Judicial System, courts specify when handing down the sentence the amount of time that must be serv...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
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...
be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
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...