Essays 31 - 60
be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
development necessarily flourish from assuming they want to and will fit into what is needed or what exists" (Schimel, 2008). ...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
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...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...
is a great deal of evidence that suggests a teenager is really not aware enough to stand trial, or to make the same kinds of good ...
This research paper describes the various approaches that have been tried in regard how best to handle juvenile justice and the wr...
Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
In seven pages 2 violent child crime videos are reviewed in terms of the justice system and whether or not it is fair to try youth...
our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...
an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...
In four pages this paper argues that children should not be legally punished as adults and confined to separate juvenile detention...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...