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Reducing Recidivism, Lancaster, et al (2011)

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

Try Juveniles in Juvenile Courts

This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...

Critically Examining America's Juvenile Gangs

also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...

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...

Preventing Juvenile Delinquency

and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...

Juvenile Law Case Study Analysis

he saw his little sister having sex, he might have been angry enough to throw something. However, whether or not he is guilty of t...

Quality of Life, Delinquency, and Crime

In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...

Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency

In eight pages this paper examines how to address the problem of juvenile delinquency and how to productively reintroduce offender...

Rates of Success and Recidivism Impacts of Juvenile Delinquent Programs versus Juvenile Boot Camp

use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...

Assessing the Effectiveness of Juvenile Wilderness Camps

This paper consists of eleven pages and examines whether or not juvenile delinquency is effectively treated through juvenile wilde...

Roles of Family, School, and Church in Juvenile Delinquency

In ten pages this paper discusses juvenile delinquency in a consideration of the roles played by family, school, and the church wi...

Juvenile Delinquency Programs and Juvenile Boot Camps

In ten pages this research proposal assesses the recidivism impacts and success rates of juvenile delinquency programs versus juve...

The Explorers Program as a Preventative Measure in Juvenile Delinquency

This thirty page paper presents an overview of the Explorers Program, a program that allows juveniles to accompany police officers...

Sealed Records and Juvenile Crime

be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...

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...

Racism in Criminal Justice?

black men were imprisoned in 2006 (MacDonald, 2008)! This compares to only one in 79 Hispanic men and one in 205 white men (MacDon...

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....

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...

Drug Offenders and Criminal Justice Planning

interaction competencies has been found to be effective (Office of National Drug Policy, Principles, 2003). There are many differe...

Book Review of Child Victims Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice

by many experts to be a "breakthrough" book - for the most part, while studies of victimization of adults of crime have been print...

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...

Criminal Justice and the Feminist Movement

However, women continue to be restrained by social expectation by being routinely invalidated in popular culture. The road to gen...

Rape and England's Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act

challenges after challenges, which have ended up weakening the act, rather than strengthening it. When it comes to the law...

DNA A Tool in Criminal Justice

Practically since its discovery DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) has had phenomenal implications for the criminal justice system. With...

One Problem in Criminal Justice

terms of their parole (Pew Center, 2010). Nobody knows exactly what kinds of prison programs would definitely reduce recidivism r...

Research in Criminal Justice

internal and external stressors. b. Repeat offenders repeat their crimes because there are no other options. B. Incapacitation 1....

Statistical Testing of Criminal Justice Data

the critical level, this the score against which the test statistic will be assessed to determine whether to accept or reject the ...

Criminal Justice and the Practice of Deontological Ethics

words, the private behavior of individuals may well be governed by simple emotional reactions to ethical scenarios. The actions of...

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 ...

Budget Analysis for One Criminal Justice Agency

The budget reflected a decrease from the previous fiscal year and very close to the same personnel costs as 2007/2008. The data ar...