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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...

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 ...

Community Programs and Juvenile Delinquency

do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...

Prevention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

Juvenile Delinquency and Reform Schools

In 7 pages this paper discusses how reform schools are making a return in a consideration of juvenile delinquency. There are 7 so...

Adult Courts' Role and Juvenile Violence

In five pages this paper examines trying juveniles in adult courts in an assessment of the pros and cons of this practice with reh...

Major Causes of Juvenile Delinquency Overview

our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...

Juvenile Delinquency and the Group Home

who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...

US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Juvenile Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...

Defense of Laredo, Texas' Juvenile Detention Center

not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...

Public Agency's Budget Curbing

cut 2 454900 GROUP TOTAL $689,242 Total salary...

Female Juvenile Delinquency Influences

juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...

Juvenile Sex Crimes and Treatment

juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...

Functional and Behavioral Approaches to Juvenile Delinquency

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

Canada, Victimization, and Juvenile Delinquency

reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...

Media Coverages of Juvenile Sniper John Lee Malvo's Trial

are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...

Aspects of Crime

things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...

Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, and Girls

compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...

Overview of Juvenile Crime

youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...

A History of Children In Mental Health Facilities

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

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...

At Risk Program Design Targeting Juvenile Delinquency

an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...

Juvenile Delinquency and the Role of Family

by18--and sometimes much younger. He considers himself "hard core". He often will no longer be using his birth name, but rather on...

Crime, Drugs, Guns, and Juvenile

In 5 pages this paper on juvenile crime discusses the effects of weapons and drugs on its incidences. There are 4 sources cited i...

Film Rebel Without a Cause and Theories of Sociology

In seven pages this paper examines juvenile delinquency in this analysis of the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause from a perspective...

1999 Report by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

In ten pages the Action Plan of the OJJDP is examined in a step by step analysis with juvenile delinquency causal theory also disc...

Juvenile Delinquency and Divorce

In fifteen pages this hypothetical study looks at the link between divorce and juvenile delinquency and includs an abstract, intro...

US Juvenile Justice System

(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...

Juvenile Crime and Families with Single Parents

In fifteen pages this paper examines juvenile delinquency in a consideration of the relationship between youth crime incidence and...