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Criminally-Minded Mothers

be better. This is a condition for young women in many situations, and thus also applies to women who ultimately commit crimes who...

Steve Christian's 'Out of Lock-UP: Now What?', Juvenile Crime and Drug Use

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

Reducing Recidivism, Lancaster, et al (2011)

fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...

The Juvenile Justice System and Violent Juvenile Offenders

The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...

Rectifying Overcrowded Prisons and Recidivism

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

Young Women as the Perpetrators of Crime

Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...

Problems of Probation Offices

Community Service" (Probation division, 2001). How It Works Adult services, as the name implies, "is responsible for supervising...

Child Abuser Sterilization

for them in many respects. This is something to consider when arguing for involuntary sterilization of child abusers. In the sam...

Turkey's System of Criminal Justice

security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...

Repeat Offenders After Probation and or Parole

Analysis There are very few people in society today want to see bad men and women doing bad things in public --...

Developmental Psychology and a Premier Virtual Computer Generated Symposium

labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...

Juvenile Crime Approaches and Restorative Judgment Value

groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....

PACTS Model and the Connection Between Counselors and Offenders

between offender and staff and reductions in recidivism, then, are central to acknowledging a variety of new correctional approach...

Applied Research Project Proposal on Recidivism and Training of Offenders

Over the course of the last decade, researchers, social and criminal theorists, and the general public have debated the issue of p...

Managing and Treating Sexual Offenders

reentry of certain criminal populations into the general society. When sexual abusers, for example, are reintroduced into society...

Juvenile Corrections Facilities

Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...

Australia and Indigenous Female Convicts

16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...

The War on Drugs in Arizona

per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...

Juvenile Offenders and Adult Prosecution

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

Arguing in Favor of Adult Sentences for Certain Juvenile Offenders

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

England's Crime and Crime and Punishment from 1800 to 1850

times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

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...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Jury Trials and Juveniles

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...

Overview of Canadian Criminal Justice Articles

This paper provides summary of three articles that report on a new Canadian law that increases the victim surcharge penalty and ma...

Victimization, A Theory with Examples

This research paper/essay pertains to the "Offender Searches/Victimization Patterns" theoretical perspective on victimization. The...

Rehabilitation Versus Court

This 5 page papver gives an overview of restorative justice practices worldwide. This paper includes the feelings of victims as we...

Annotated Bibliography - Youths Tried as Adults

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the trying of juvenile offenders in adult courts. Insights are derived from an anno...