YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency
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the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...
While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
out the details of how that grant will be distributed among the various agencies. It is obvious in this case that the Milledgevil...
average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...
behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...
In fifteen pages this paper examines delinquency in terms of the relationship between family life and family structure and delinqu...
be more delinquency in these families (Department of Criminal Justice, 2008). Children are less likely to graduate from high schoo...
In twenty five pages this paper analyzes how delinquency can be addressed through the development and use of effective communicati...
This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...
windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...
This thirty page paper presents an overview of the Explorers Program, a program that allows juveniles to accompany police officers...
account of youth cultures that exist among white, middle class adolescents in California, and relates these suburban sub-cultures ...
In five pages this paper argues against punishing parents for juvenile delinquent behavior of their children but does strongly rec...