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positive outcomes. However, researchers and clinicians are constantly seeking new means of therapeutic intervention for treatment ...
is a more certain way to monitor the offenders and also serves to result in a higher rate of those who do not return to a life of ...
a matter that is automatically seen as euthanasia. If we consider the case of Diane Petty we may see why it was that she sought t...
of our lives, even in the way we viewed our role and that of Gods in the universe. During the first half of the seventeenth centu...
In ten pages this paper discusses the alternatives to incarceration that might be available to minor drug offenders in the crimina...
comedy has been a staple of American movies since movies were first created. There is an undeniable connection that exists betwee...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
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 ...
drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...
to understand that these characteristics alone do not conclusively determine that a person is a pedophile" (Anonymous Pedophiles a...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...
differentiations between crimes? Is it more important to register a sex offender than a convicted drug dealer or armed robber? Sho...
incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
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...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
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, ...
per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
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...
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...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...