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amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
In eight pages this paper examines how to address the problem of juvenile delinquency and how to productively reintroduce offender...
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 research proposal assesses the recidivism impacts and success rates of juvenile delinquency programs versus juve...
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...
2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...
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...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
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...
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...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...
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...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
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...
This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...
This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...
Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...
contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...
effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...
This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...
(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...
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...
In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...