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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 ...
decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...
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...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
(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...
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...
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...
Americans are against taking away the rights of individuals to own a gun. But what theyre increasingly demanding is rational cont...
and for use as a ready food source, the Eurasians were able to far surpass other cultures in their development. This shift from h...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
be seen in the development of medicienn, where today there is linear development, but there has aso been a retrun to more natural ...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
A persuasive essay on this controversial topic is presented in 3 pages. The bibliography cites 3 sources....
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...