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2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...
A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...
was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
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...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
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...
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...
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...
understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...
attention in their federal death penalty trial in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Michael L. Taylor and Keon D. Moses start...
windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...
very distinct physical characteristics (Clinton Community College, n.d.). Examples include a flattened nose, very large jaws, stro...
heinous, atrocious or cruel, that the crime was committed for the purposes of avoiding or presenting ...a lawful arrest, and that ...
This research paper focuses on the role of peer pressure in regards to adolescent use of marijuana. Whether or not marijuana shoul...
is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....