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The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
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...
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...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
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...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...
amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...
of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...
This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...
punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...
expect to see relatively consistent figures at each successive stage of the juvenile justice system. In fact, the disparities get...
be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...