YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Juvenile Justice System and Violent Juvenile Offenders
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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...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
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...
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 six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...
Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...
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...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...
contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
rather noble institution and embraces the authority to encompass the most important duty imaginable which is to protect and reform...
This is a 5 page critical review that criticizes the nation's system of juvenile justice and its many shortfalls, emphasizing the ...
(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
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....
to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...
and, therefore, cannot begin to identify with the situation or see the need for drastic change. What, exactly, compels one ...