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Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...
Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...
further into the system (Juvenile Justice System, 2012). Sometimes, juveniles can enter the system through a child welfare agency ...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...
one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...
process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...
century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...
in his or her favor (Sixth Amendment, 2012). Finally we have the Fourteenth Amendment. Though not part of the original Bill of Rig...
2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...
Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...
In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...
to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...