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approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...
interaction competencies has been found to be effective (Office of National Drug Policy, Principles, 2003). There are many differe...
the elements that concern those who work with the output of the criminal justice system. The inconsistencies of the judiciary and ...
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...
per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
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 serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
for them in many respects. This is something to consider when arguing for involuntary sterilization of child abusers. In the sam...
Community Service" (Probation division, 2001). How It Works Adult services, as the name implies, "is responsible for supervising...
of drug case is processed across the state (OSCA, 2004). For instance, a drug offender might be assigned to a treatment program du...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
be better. This is a condition for young women in many situations, and thus also applies to women who ultimately commit crimes who...
In addition, these security measures are not particularly effective against fraud which makes use of social engineering: the scams...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...
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...
This paper argues that the purpose of prison is punishment. Although some offenders go through the system and are rehabilitated, t...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...
In a four page paper, the author considers the issue of hypersexuality in sexual offenders. Many sexual predators have been the v...