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those codified into law ...and creating societal pressures for reform" (p. 167). Indeed, the world is changing and more attention...
does not have a good track record in terms of sexual encounters. In defense of the verdict, Rainey (2004) notes that those who op...
of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...
II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...
Over the last decade, there have been numerous high-profile, huge scams from organizations. These are called white-collar crimes a...
that "natural crime" is a crime against the laws that were given to all men by God, whereas "legal crime" is "an act that violates...
publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...
be charged with statutory rape even if the girl consents, provided she is not of age. If she wants to make love with her boyfriend...
rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...
The writer discusses the crime of neonaticide (killing of infants) with specific reference to the case of Amy Grossberg and Brian ...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
and Bernstein, 2007, p. 78). While Eysenck apparently did not develop his theory of behavior specifically with regard to crime, la...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...
by juveniles. Tragedies such as Jonesboro, Arkansas; Bethel, Alaska and Paducah, Kentucky have shocked the world as young people h...
This paper addresses the idea of using education as a preventative measure for fighting crime. The author focuses on juvenile del...
juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...
Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...
In 5 pages this paper on juvenile crime discusses the effects of weapons and drugs on its incidences. There are 4 sources cited i...
In fifteen pages this paper examines juvenile delinquency in a consideration of the relationship between youth crime incidence and...
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...
youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...
In five pages Australia is the focus of this inquiry into the relationship between juvenile delinquency and crime with topics incl...
Juvenile crime is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....
In eight pages this paper discusses how recidivism rates can be improved through community based programs in a consideration of Fl...
from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...
on the fact that other states are closing their boot camps for lack of funds and poor success rates, Nunnlee commented "at this po...