YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Adult Court Versus Juvenile Court
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This research paper pertains to the history of juvenile courts and describes how it has changed over the course of the twentieth c...
only non-identifying information about the other person, such as physical descriptions, age, basic medical data, hobbies, and such...
the juveniles who are punished through the adult court (Urbina and White, 2009, p. 122). Ostensibly, the purpose of transferring y...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...
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...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...
culture, leading to an understanding of the enshrined values and expectations as well as resulting in outward symbols of that cult...
a capital case, Gideons request did not fit the parameters of Betts. In the early chapters of his book, Lewis provides this backgr...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
In six pages contemporary linguistics are examined in a terminology overview that includes register versus dialect, descriptive ve...
In five pages three articles featuring the topic of homosexuality are summarized and analyzed. They are Christopher Hewitt's 'Hom...
feel lethargic, further disinclining the individual to exercise, which escalates the problem. In regards to population, all age gr...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...