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In ten pages this research proposal assesses the recidivism impacts and success rates of juvenile delinquency programs versus juve...
In fifteen pages this paper examines juvenile delinquency in a consideration of the relationship between youth crime incidence and...
use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...
see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...
as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
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...
juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...
juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
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...
if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
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)....
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
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...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...