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2 Theories on Juvenile Delinquency

While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...

Gender, Family/Juvenile Delinquency

one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...

Correctional Programs/Juveniles

decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...

Probation and the Role of Officers

process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...

Rehabilitation in Juvenile Justice

century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Jury Trials and Juveniles

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...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

Juvenile Delinquency and Gender

help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...

Children and Diabetes

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

Welfare State, Power Transformation, and Managerialism

for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...

Juvenile Offenders and Adult Prosecution

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

Addressing the Causes of Juvenile Delinquency

statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...

The Many Impacts of Domestic Violence

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Juvenile Delinquency and the Group Home

who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...

Gun Ownership and the Rights of the People

Americans are against taking away the rights of individuals to own a gun. But what theyre increasingly demanding is rational cont...

Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel

and for use as a ready food source, the Eurasians were able to far surpass other cultures in their development. This shift from h...

Single Parent Households and Juvenile Delinquency

mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...

Understanding Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel

be seen in the development of medicienn, where today there is linear development, but there has aso been a retrun to more natural ...

Developmental Psychology and a Premier Virtual Computer Generated Symposium

labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...

Theories on Juvenile Delinquency and Its Reasons

duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...

A Juvenile Corrections Exploration

Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...

Juvenile Corrections Facilities

Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...

Insanity Defense and Juvenile Justice

to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...

Second Amendment and Gun Control

A persuasive essay on this controversial topic is presented in 3 pages. The bibliography cites 3 sources....

A Police Officer Steals Guns

held to a higher standard that the rest of the society because they have power over the public. Even so, their behavior on-duty an...