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with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...
not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
In eight pages this paper examines how to address the problem of juvenile delinquency and how to productively reintroduce offender...
in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...
fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
Clearly, not everyone is a fan of the boot camp approach to rehabilitation, with critics contending how such brutal methods do not...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
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...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
(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...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...