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In a paper of eleven pages, the writer looks at the Canadian justice system. Fitness to stand trial is examined in respect to a nu...

of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

differed so that the young offender will have time to make amends. Other forms of mediation are found within the prisons themselve...

justice has been entrenched in three areas which are offender accountability, victim restoration, and the reintegration of the of...

after hearing of the deaths of the children and the illness in the community (Trevino, 2000). Today it has been proven that there ...

varies considerably from the twentieth century definition quoted above. Regulation, of course, is typically implemented by govern...

and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...

to domestic legal strategies. One of the principle reasons has to do with why legal strategies are sought in the first place, whi...

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

nations would "interact with one another in a zone of comity, cooperation and law" (see 142, 143). The Kantian theory, in fact, is...

review may be sought, this was seen in the case of Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1985] AC 374...

Today in America there is a great but subtle poison that has worked its way into the minds of those who recline nightly in their c...

is the same: someone has been killed at the hands of another. Steinbock bristles at the idea that one form of murder should be v...

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

during the seventeenth century, where jurors were disqualified from judging if they had a precious knowledge of that case (Smith ...

This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...

This paper discusses the five-stage model developed by the Vera Institute, which describes the process used to enter adolescents i...

This essay reports different definitions of the concept of criminal as it is used as a noun and has an adjective. One of the ways ...

Lenore Walker which outlined the relationship between the defendants (Mrs. Ibn-Tamas) behavior and the characteristics of a "batte...

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

been stretched into prevention efforts. Based on a wide range of viewpoints and actual criminal activity within each of th...

resources on deterring individuals from crime. Socioeconomically disadvantaged and lesser educated individuals seem to be...

to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...

inadmissible if a case is already being handled by a state with jurisdiction, unless it is deemed that the state in question is "g...

America was attacked on September 11, 2001. The many American agencies that gather and analyze intelligence had missed the cues. W...

In sixty pages this paper discusses psychological profiling of criminals in an application of various principles to Jack the Rippe...

countries and these rights have been written on an international standard. The principal international human rights laws protect t...

the conviction of most crimes. The intent element is usually fulfilled if the defendant was generally aware that she or he was ve...

an early incident sent Gacy to prison for molesting a teenager and then his wife divorced him (1997). After he served a short pris...