YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Addressing the Causes of Juvenile Delinquency
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does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
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....
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...
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...
reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...
for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...
birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...
cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...
has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...
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are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...