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Juvenile Delinquency and Reform Schools

In 7 pages this paper discusses how reform schools are making a return in a consideration of juvenile delinquency. There are 7 so...

Adult Courts' Role and Juvenile Violence

In five pages this paper examines trying juveniles in adult courts in an assessment of the pros and cons of this practice with reh...

Crime, Drugs, Guns, and Juvenile

In 5 pages this paper on juvenile crime discusses the effects of weapons and drugs on its incidences. There are 4 sources cited i...

Juvenile Offenses and Education

expect to see relatively consistent figures at each successive stage of the juvenile justice system. In fact, the disparities get...

Juvenile Crime and Families with Single Parents

In fifteen pages this paper examines juvenile delinquency in a consideration of the relationship between youth crime incidence and...

Juvenile Delinquency and the Role of Family

by18--and sometimes much younger. He considers himself "hard core". He often will no longer be using his birth name, but rather on...

1999 Report by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

In ten pages the Action Plan of the OJJDP is examined in a step by step analysis with juvenile delinquency causal theory also disc...

Film Rebel Without a Cause and Theories of Sociology

In seven pages this paper examines juvenile delinquency in this analysis of the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause from a perspective...

'The Maximum Security Adolescent' by Margaret Talbot

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

Juvenile Delinquency and Divorce

In fifteen pages this hypothetical study looks at the link between divorce and juvenile delinquency and includs an abstract, intro...

Juvenile Delinquency, Domestic Violence, and the Effects of Substance Abuse

In twelve pages this paper examines how juvenile delinquency and domestic violence increases are affected by substance abuse in th...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

Juvenile Delinquency and Gender

help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...

Children and Diabetes

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

Community Programs and Juvenile Delinquency

do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...

Prevention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Jury Trials and Juveniles

Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

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...

Insanity Defense and Juvenile Justice

to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...

England's Crime and Crime and Punishment from 1800 to 1850

times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

Addressing the Causes of Juvenile Delinquency

statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...

The Many Impacts of Domestic Violence

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

Options for Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Crime

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

Juvenile Offenders and Adult Prosecution

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

Scared Straight Programs and Deterrence Theory

This paper's content is the speaker notes that accompany the PowerPoint presentation khjuvawarpro.ppt, and the topic addressed is ...