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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...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
(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...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
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juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...
reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
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...