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In five pages this paper examines trying juveniles in adult courts in an assessment of the pros and cons of this practice with reh...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
This paper examines the social issues of juvenile violence among minorities, and the legal ramifications of trying a child as an a...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the trying of juvenile offenders in adult courts. Insights are derived from an anno...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
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...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...
our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
This paper argues that both adults and children can be negatively impacted by violent video games. The medial plays a dual role i...