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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...
(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...
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...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
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 ...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
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...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
8 pages and 4 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the use of a program called IMPACT that integrates IT systems that...
this condition is unknown (CKD, 2005). The challenge facing this focus area of HP 2010 is to establish effective programs that wil...
Most institutions of higher education have been searching for innovative ways to increase their revenues for about a decade. Their...
The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...
the juveniles who are punished through the adult court (Urbina and White, 2009, p. 122). Ostensibly, the purpose of transferring y...
left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken". The job confronting the juvenile officer then is fixing the wi...
the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...
although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...
need it, and monitor their blood; both of these could interfere with daily routine and make the child feel hes being singled out (...
windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...
heinous, atrocious or cruel, that the crime was committed for the purposes of avoiding or presenting ...a lawful arrest, and that ...