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

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

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...

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

believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...

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...

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

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...

for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...

Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

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...

#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...