Essays 61 - 90
windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...
In 8 pages this paper offers solutions to the growing juvenile crime problems and focuses upon valuable programs of victim and off...
In ten pages this paper examines drug use as one of the primary juvenile crime causes in a consideration of various theories inclu...
punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...
expect to see relatively consistent figures at each successive stage of the juvenile justice system. In fact, the disparities get...
our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...
In 7 pages this paper discusses how reform schools are making a return in a consideration of juvenile delinquency. There are 7 so...
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 thirteen pages this paper presents a problem analysis, objectives establishment, policy or program design, action development, ...
In eleven pages this paper discusses the correlation between LD students and incidences of delinquency. Nine sources are cited in...
In 5 pages this paper on juvenile crime discusses the effects of weapons and drugs on its incidences. There are 4 sources cited i...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
by18--and sometimes much younger. He considers himself "hard core". He often will no longer be using his birth name, but rather on...
(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...
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...
very distinct physical characteristics (Clinton Community College, n.d.). Examples include a flattened nose, very large jaws, stro...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken". The job confronting the juvenile officer then is fixing the wi...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
a result, non-profit and private organizations have tried to step forward to provide diversion programs, or alternates, to incarce...