YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :U S Drug Offenders and Laws
Essays 301 - 330
study will involve three groups of between 6 and 8 sex offenders. The student researching this topic should note that, ideally, th...
for them in many respects. This is something to consider when arguing for involuntary sterilization of child abusers. In the sam...
be better. This is a condition for young women in many situations, and thus also applies to women who ultimately commit crimes who...
(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...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
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...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...
is responsible for such behaviors as domestic violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occ...
Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...
in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
understanding of the way in which the current system, is failing to serve not only the prison population, but the total population...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
reentry of certain criminal populations into the general society. When sexual abusers, for example, are reintroduced into society...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
between offender and staff and reductions in recidivism, then, are central to acknowledging a variety of new correctional approach...
Over the course of the last decade, researchers, social and criminal theorists, and the general public have debated the issue of p...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
Analysis There are very few people in society today want to see bad men and women doing bad things in public --...
of sex crimes, however. Sexual violence often targets children as well (Nester, 1998). The issues surrounding child abuse alone ...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...
from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...