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a responsive juvenile justice system is critical (Briscoe, 1997). In Texas, for example, children as young as ten will fall und...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
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...
general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...
traditional pedagogies are inadequate to meet the needs of the 21st century and that education paradigms that were created in the ...
things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
the federal courts to mandate minimum rights for prisoners" (Platt, 1999, p. 237). But by the 1990s, prison reform had died out a...
confronting corrections in the 21st century are prison overcrowding, limited funds, and protecting society from criminals by impri...
Information about the juvenile system of criminal justice of these three centuries are compared and contrasted. There are 6 bibli...
amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...
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...
This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...
remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...
punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...