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vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
In ten pages this research study proposal considers whether or not single parent households are responsible for the increases in j...
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of girls during the same period rose 6% (Siegel and Welsh, 2005). Even more striking and troubling is the fact that arrests for se...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
(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...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
scenario indicates that the student researching this topic has been assigned to help Hector with this learning task. The scenario ...
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 ...
to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
riotous behavior inasmuch as students contend their rights are being violated by the limitation. The issue at hand, points ...
use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...
as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...
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 ...
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...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...