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rather noble institution and embraces the authority to encompass the most important duty imaginable which is to protect and reform...

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

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...

to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

as this deal with damage to property during public disorder where property is damaged, but this time it may be purposefully, but i...

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

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...

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...

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...

a great deal of ignorance and disrespect for that individual; just because someone is a member of a certain race does not mean tha...

in group settings, these community-based probation programs ensure public protection in ways not possible using standard casework ...

process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...

not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...

be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...

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...