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Risk Factors in Criminal Behavior Among Juveniles

Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....

Do Genes or Environment Determine Crime

Theories abound as to why people commit crime. One of these theories purports...

Marxist Viewpoint on Rational Choice

theories that serve to establish a basis upon which law enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for it...

The Reduction in Criminal Offences After Adolescence

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

Juvenile Delinquency Theories - Choice And Criminal Atavism

very distinct physical characteristics (Clinton Community College, n.d.). Examples include a flattened nose, very large jaws, stro...

Article Critique/Male v. Female Substance Abuse Patterns

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

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 ...

Pressure Ulcers; Risk Management

In 1997 it is estimated the pressure ulcers cost the Australian healthcare system A$350 million and with patients that develop ulc...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

Juvenile Crime and the Court System

juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency

(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...

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...

College Students and Underage Drinking, A Proposal

This paper presents a research proposal that is written in a sentence outline format. The research study it describes would invest...

Rate of Recidivism and Drug Use

Before delving into proving the thesis, looking at relevant literature and statistics, it is important to look at drug use and its...

System of Criminal Justice and Juvenile Delinquency

In seven pages this report discusses contributing factors of juvenile delinquency and discusses how it is defined within the crimi...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Issues in Juvenile Delinquency

This research paper pertains to the association between child abuse and juvenile delinquency. The paper also discusses the relati...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

Scared Straight

other programs are designed to be more educational with interactive discussions between the inmates and the youth" (Schembri, 2006...

Comparisons Between Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

Alcohol Abuse Among College Students and Risk Factors

fraternity or sorority is already biologically or psychosocially geared toward alcohol abuse, then this simply strikes a match to ...

Criminal Law and Current Trends

In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...

Case Study/Breast Cancer

to replace lost cells or to repair damaged tissue and once this task has been achieved, "proliferation-repressing signals" are act...

Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

Studies for Heart Disease Contributors

This 7 page paper gives an outline of the heart disease studies and risk factors. This paper includes the studies on risk factors ...

Person vs. Environment Debate, Behavior Influences

This paper presents the writer/tutor's opinion that neither personal nor environment factors are fully responsible for shaping hum...

Theories Regarding Teen Misbehavior Regarding Sex and Substance Abuse

In twelve pages this paper examines teenage deviant behavior in a consideration of various social factors and how they can escalat...

Nurture vs. Nature in an Exploration of Criminal Behavior

biological determinism and the changing values of our day which expose us on a daily basis to such concepts as criminal deviancy h...

The Factors that Influence Behavior in Criminal Justice Work

the persons subjective view of the situation are important (More, Wegener and Vito, 2005, p. 56). This perspective suggests tha...