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issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
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)....
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
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...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...