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the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
(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...
While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...
that depression may be a risk factor. Depression causes many different feelings and conditions such as the inability to concentrat...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
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 ...
by which to vent their anger, which can translate into juvenile delinquency. It is important for the student to realize that aggr...
In five pages Australia is the focus of this inquiry into the relationship between juvenile delinquency and crime with topics incl...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the current state of juvenile delinquency in America in a consideration of various treatments...
In eight pages this paper examines child behavior and juvenile delinquency with a consideration of parental roles and influences u...
In ten pages this paper examines the linkage between juvenile delinquency and illiteracy. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograp...
an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...
achievement and follow a child into his or her adulthood (Ensign, Scherman, and Clark, 1998). Authors such as Wooten (1959), Vold...
his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...
who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...
as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...
compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...
Yong et al (2002) in their study of eighth-grade students, found that there was a close correlation between high self-esteem...
reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...
juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
first began to describe a recognizable pattern of birth defects that are attributable to alcohol exposure in the late 1960s. Since...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...