YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :School Truancy Using Drugs and Juvenile Justice
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as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...
use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
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...
in which "many public schools have adopted a policy of zero tolerance toward drug use, weapon possession and sexual harassment on ...
similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...
punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
gang activity. It is also noted that in particular graffiti and burglaries may subside as a result of targeting truancy. One may t...
is the issue of whether random drug tests should be aimed at a specific group of students who are considered to be at a higher ris...
An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
In seven pages this paper examines the increased incidences of violence in schools and considers how the environment can be improv...
This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...
accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...
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 aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...
Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...
amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...
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...
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...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...