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Juvenile Crime Court Approaches and Other Options

disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...

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...

A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

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...

Juvenile And Adult Court: Comparison

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

Adult Courts' Role and Juvenile Violence

In five pages this paper examines trying juveniles in adult courts in an assessment of the pros and cons of this practice with reh...

Adult Court Versus Juvenile Court

2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Try Juveniles in Juvenile Courts

This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...

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...

Trying Juveniles

Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...

North Carolin's Justice

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...

Core Concepts of Juvenile Delinquency

is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...

Juveniles, Transfer Laws And Adult Court

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

Juvenile Offenders and Adult Prosecution

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

Annotated Bibliography - Youths Tried as Adults

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the trying of juvenile offenders in adult courts. Insights are derived from an anno...

Juvenile Justice Diversion Programs - Their Importance

States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...

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...

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...

Sealed Records and Juvenile Crime

be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...

Juveniles and Adult Criminal Sentencing

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

Comparisons Between Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

Juvenile Delinquency and A Child's Emotional Needs

contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...

Overview of America's Juvenile Court System

serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...

Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Offenders to Adult Offenders

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...

Juvenile Justice: The Importance of Separating Juveniles and Adults

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

Morse et. al. v Frederick: An Analysis

not been violated but the Ninth Circuit Court reversed that decision. Although that reversal accepted the argument that the event...

John Kerry v. George W. Bush's Views on the Supreme Court Contrasted

of Bush and Kerry are intimately aware, of course, that the judicial branch can override both the President and Congress. They ar...

Programs Targeting Juvenile Crime

gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...