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Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...

M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...

approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...

(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

a responsive juvenile justice system is critical (Briscoe, 1997). In Texas, for example, children as young as ten will fall und...

This is a 5 page critical review that criticizes the nation's system of juvenile justice and its many shortfalls, emphasizing the ...

Information about the juvenile system of criminal justice of these three centuries are compared and contrasted. There are 6 bibli...

In six pages this paper presents a detailed overview of juvenile gangs in a consideration of their rituals and activities. Six so...

a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...

In twenty four pages this paper examines how juvenile correction facilities can be improved through American Correctional Associat...

similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...

sociological or environmental forces. His statement that biology constitutes the only important factor in causing criminality set ...

There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...

further into the system (Juvenile Justice System, 2012). Sometimes, juveniles can enter the system through a child welfare agency ...

In 8 pages this paper offers solutions to the growing juvenile crime problems and focuses upon valuable programs of victim and off...

in his or her favor (Sixth Amendment, 2012). Finally we have the Fourteenth Amendment. Though not part of the original Bill of Rig...

part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...

decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...

process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...

century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...