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likely to have substance abuse problems, which ultimately establishes a cyclical arrangement for both living and socializing. ...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
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...
This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...
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...
Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...
This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...
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...
effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...
and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
he saw his little sister having sex, he might have been angry enough to throw something. However, whether or not he is guilty of t...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
This thirty page paper presents an overview of the Explorers Program, a program that allows juveniles to accompany police officers...
In ten pages this research proposal assesses the recidivism impacts and success rates of juvenile delinquency programs versus juve...
be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...
In ten pages this paper discusses juvenile delinquency in a consideration of the roles played by family, school, and the church wi...
This paper consists of eleven pages and examines whether or not juvenile delinquency is effectively treated through juvenile wilde...
use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...
amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...
also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...
of the illness events (formed by prior experiences) are violated" (pp. 66). Mishel also found that other factors such as the pati...
punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...
In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...