YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Addressing the Causes of Juvenile Delinquency
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serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
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 ...
in his or her favor (Sixth Amendment, 2012). Finally we have the Fourteenth Amendment. Though not part of the original Bill of Rig...
Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...
further into the system (Juvenile Justice System, 2012). Sometimes, juveniles can enter the system through a child welfare agency ...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
(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...
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...
more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
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...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...