YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Core Concepts of Juvenile Delinquency
Essays 391 - 420
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...
that blockage of these goals can result in delinquency that indicates that deviant behavior is an illegitimate method for achievin...
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...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
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...
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...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
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...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
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 ...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
relates to ones personal development, which has been suspected of influencing the rising violent tendency of juveniles. II. TELEV...
similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...
youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...
sociological or environmental forces. His statement that biology constitutes the only important factor in causing criminality set ...
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...