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this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...
and, therefore, cannot begin to identify with the situation or see the need for drastic change. What, exactly, compels one ...
(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...
a responsive juvenile justice system is critical (Briscoe, 1997). In Texas, for example, children as young as ten will fall und...
Information about the juvenile system of criminal justice of these three centuries are compared and contrasted. There are 6 bibli...
In seven pages this report discusses contributing factors of juvenile delinquency and discusses how it is defined within the crimi...
rather noble institution and embraces the authority to encompass the most important duty imaginable which is to protect and reform...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
In eight pages this paper examines 1990s' crime rate statistics in this consideration of Pennsylvania's juvenile crime system. Ei...
behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...
the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...
although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
on the fact that other states are closing their boot camps for lack of funds and poor success rates, Nunnlee commented "at this po...
riotous behavior inasmuch as students contend their rights are being violated by the limitation. The issue at hand, points ...
use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
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...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
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...