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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...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
understanding of the way in which the current system, is failing to serve not only the prison population, but the total population...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
the point is that this issue cannot be discussed calmly. It is loaded with emotion and those who supported the measure counted on ...
is responsible for such behaviors as domestic violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occ...
Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...
they dont realize how important non-verbal communication is. This paper considers the impact of verbal and non-verbal communicatio...
was to insure that prior to being released from prison, sex criminals received psychatric evaluation to insure they would not comm...
is about one-fourth of the entire population. Of those, over two million are arrested each year. That accounts for about 17 percen...
the criminal justice system, some designed to help inmates, others to keep track of them. This paper discusses a program called "E...
in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
sentence; 5. when enrolled in a NC institute of higher education 6. when working in the State for more than 14 days or a period th...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
between offender and staff and reductions in recidivism, then, are central to acknowledging a variety of new correctional approach...
Over the course of the last decade, researchers, social and criminal theorists, and the general public have debated the issue of p...
reentry of certain criminal populations into the general society. When sexual abusers, for example, are reintroduced into society...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
Analysis There are very few people in society today want to see bad men and women doing bad things in public --...
of sex crimes, however. Sexual violence often targets children as well (Nester, 1998). The issues surrounding child abuse alone ...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...