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of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
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...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...
This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
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...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
This paper examines the social issues of juvenile violence among minorities, and the legal ramifications of trying a child as an a...
In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
In five pages this paper examines trying juveniles in adult courts in an assessment of the pros and cons of this practice with reh...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the trying of juvenile offenders in adult courts. Insights are derived from an anno...
part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
the juveniles who are punished through the adult court (Urbina and White, 2009, p. 122). Ostensibly, the purpose of transferring y...