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youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
(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...
does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...
left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken". The job confronting the juvenile officer then is fixing the wi...
the juveniles who are punished through the adult court (Urbina and White, 2009, p. 122). Ostensibly, the purpose of transferring y...
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)....
young children, although incontestable, is one of the prominent societal concerns of the time. Such graphical violence has been d...
In five pages this paper discusses the insulin dependent form of diabetes that was once thought to only affect young children. Si...
This paper examines pertinent issues regarding the due process and Miranda rights of minors in the US criminal justice system. Th...
In ten pages this paper examines how adolescents are affected by gang membership and culture. Six sources are listed in the bibli...
In thirteen pages this paper presents a problem analysis, objectives establishment, policy or program design, action development, ...
attention in their federal death penalty trial in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Michael L. Taylor and Keon D. Moses start...
understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...
although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...
need it, and monitor their blood; both of these could interfere with daily routine and make the child feel hes being singled out (...