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to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...
the Bloods and the Crips, both originating in Los Angeles (Siegel, Welsh & Senna, 2005). Both gangs mentioned expanded to the poi...
behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...
the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...
birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...
similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...
a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...
There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...
sociological or environmental forces. His statement that biology constitutes the only important factor in causing criminality set ...
relates to ones personal development, which has been suspected of influencing the rising violent tendency of juveniles. II. TELEV...
by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
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...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
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...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
seeds and need punishment. Rather, criminal issues are complicated. In fact, in criminology, the classical school emerged around 1...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...
and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...
of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...