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Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Jury Trials and Juveniles

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...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

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...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

Australia and Indigenous Female Convicts

16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...

Criminally-Minded Mothers

be better. This is a condition for young women in many situations, and thus also applies to women who ultimately commit crimes who...

Criminal Law and Current Trends

In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...

'The Maximum Security Adolescent' by Margaret Talbot

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

History of Vocational Youth Organizations

In nine pages this paper examines vocational youth organizations from an historical perspective with criminal offender retraining ...

Offender Population and Behavioral Motivation

In five pages the offender population in terms of a lack of motivation is discussed with the argument presented that self worth an...

Juvenile Justice and Morality

In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...

Canada's Struggle With Child Pornography

p.PG). Courts in the West have been struggling with the definition for quite awhile as they try to keep a balance for the right ...

Juveniles and Adult Criminal Sentencing

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

British Law and Criminal Justice System and the Offender as a Victim

In forty five pages this paper discusses the British system of criminal justice in an assessment of the 'offender as victim' conce...

Evaluating the Fairness of Megan's Law

headline: "High-Risk Sex Offenders Identified: Post Reporter, 2 Ridge Residents on List" (Sheppard, 1997, p. 37). On July 7, Mei...

Perceptions and Laws Governing Juvenile Justice

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

H.R. 863 Congressional Bill of 2001

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

Fully Restorative Programs

An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...

Counselors, Sexual Offenders, and Ethics

In fourteen pages this paper examines the importance of ethical guidelines with regard to the sexual offender and counselor relati...

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

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

Licensed Sexual Offender Counselor Interview

Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...

Treatment and Rehabilitation of Female Offenders

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

Constitutional Rights and Registries for Sex Offenders

differentiations between crimes? Is it more important to register a sex offender than a convicted drug dealer or armed robber? Sho...

Juvenile Crime and the Death Penalty

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

Sexual Offender Characteristics

to understand that these characteristics alone do not conclusively determine that a person is a pedophile" (Anonymous Pedophiles a...

Child Abuse Victims and Whether or Not They Become Abusers in Adulthood

In fifteen pages this research paper considers the causes, definitions, and incidences of child abuse and includes theories, stati...

Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency

In eight pages this paper examines how to address the problem of juvenile delinquency and how to productively reintroduce offender...

Sex Offense Therapies

about sex, sexual deviation as well as obsessive behaviors. It appears as if he was born this way and that he cannot stop himself ...

Criminal Conflict and the Victim Offender Medication Concept

Victim offender mediation is discussed in an overview of twelve pages that includes its history, a description, and an assessment ...