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Essays 481 - 510
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...
as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...
his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...
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 ...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
(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...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
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...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...