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In ten pages the Action Plan of the OJJDP is examined in a step by step analysis with juvenile delinquency causal theory also disc...

and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...

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

the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...

contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

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

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

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

Juvenile delinquency and gang violence are subjects discussed in the scope of this research report. Legal reassures, prevention an...

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

In seven pages this report discusses contributing factors of juvenile delinquency and discusses how it is defined within the crimi...

In ten pages this paper discusses juvenile delinquency in a consideration of the roles played by family, school, and the church wi...

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

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

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

In four pages the use of government funds in the treatment and prevention of juvenile delinquency is assessed in order to determin...

This paper features two topics. the first relates to the bullying and the role it plays in regards to school shootings. The second...

compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...

(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...

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...

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

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. ...

This research paper pertains to the association between child abuse and juvenile delinquency. The paper also discusses the relati...

be minors. One aspect of being a minor is the inability to enter a legally binding contract. For many, this represents a glaring l...

cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...

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