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Juvenile Arrests 2001

the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...

School Truancy, Using Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...

2 Theories on Juvenile Delinquency

While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...

Arguing in Favor of Adult Sentences for Certain Juvenile Offenders

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

Single Parent Households and Juvenile Delinquency

mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...

Theories on Juvenile Delinquency and Its Reasons

duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Research Studies, School Delinquency, and Disruptive Behaviors

programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

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...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

Community Programs and Juvenile Delinquency

do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...

Prevention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

Prison and Juveniles

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...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

Should Juveniles Be Tried as Adults?

Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...

Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

Organizational Conflict in Law Enforcement

out the details of how that grant will be distributed among the various agencies. It is obvious in this case that the Milledgevil...

High School Dropouts/North Toledo, OH

average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...

The Juvenile Justice System

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

Delinquency and Family Factors

In fifteen pages this paper examines delinquency in terms of the relationship between family life and family structure and delinqu...

Impact of Disruptive Family

be more delinquency in these families (Department of Criminal Justice, 2008). Children are less likely to graduate from high schoo...

Delinquency and Communications

In twenty five pages this paper analyzes how delinquency can be addressed through the development and use of effective communicati...

Drug Prevention/Delinquency

This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...

The Vicious Circle of Child Abuse, Juvenile Delinquency, and Future Abuse

windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...

The Explorers Program as a Preventative Measure in Juvenile Delinquency

This thirty page paper presents an overview of the Explorers Program, a program that allows juveniles to accompany police officers...

Juvenile Delinquency, Youth Culture, and Renegade Kids, Suburban Outlaws by Wooden

account of youth cultures that exist among white, middle class adolescents in California, and relates these suburban sub-cultures ...

Parental Punishment and Juvenile Delinquency

In five pages this paper argues against punishing parents for juvenile delinquent behavior of their children but does strongly rec...