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US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Turkey's System of Criminal Justice

security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...

Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, and Girls

compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...

Functional and Behavioral Approaches to Juvenile Delinquency

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

Aspects of Crime

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...

Media Coverages of Juvenile Sniper John Lee Malvo's Trial

are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...

Canada, Victimization, and Juvenile Delinquency

reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...

Perceptions and Laws Governing Juvenile Justice

There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...

Juveniles and Drug Abuse

similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun and Canada

his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...

Programs and Juvenile Crime

a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...

Connection Between Poverty and Juvenile Crime in Australia

In five pages Australia is the focus of this inquiry into the relationship between juvenile delinquency and crime with topics incl...

Juvenile Delinquency Influential Factors

achievement and follow a child into his or her adulthood (Ensign, Scherman, and Clark, 1998). Authors such as Wooten (1959), Vold...

Overview of Juvenile Crime

youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...

A History of Children In Mental Health Facilities

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

At Risk Program Design Targeting Juvenile Delinquency

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...

Juvenile Delinquency and TBI

In seven pages traumatic brain injury is examined in terms of types, treatments, and also the relationship between TBI and juvenil...

Schools and Juvenile Delinquency

In eight pages the problems connected with juvenile delinquency in public schools are examined in terms of the students who are th...

Capital Punishment and Juveniles

In nine pages political, social, and economic issues are considered in this discussion of juvenile offenders and capital punishmen...

'Light' Sentences and Juvenile Crime

In about six pages this paper examines the controversy regarding 'light' sentences that are often unfairly received for juvenile o...

Juvenile Corrections and Probation

in group settings, these community-based probation programs ensure public protection in ways not possible using standard casework ...

Punishment and Juvenile Delinquency

In nine pages this paper examines punishment for juvenile delinquency in an evaluation of program strengths and weaknesses with bo...

Juvenile Crime and Programs of Shock Incarceration and Boot Camps

on the fact that other states are closing their boot camps for lack of funds and poor success rates, Nunnlee commented "at this po...

Causes and Solutions Regarding Juvenile Homicide

and 1991, the number of Violent Crime Index arrests for murder increased by 85 percent, compared with 21 percent for those 18 or o...

New Jersey and Juvenile Delinquency In New Jersey

In nine pages this paper examines the problem of juvenile delinquency in American society with the primary focus being upon the yo...

Juvenile Delinquency Position of Mario Cuomo

In five pages the accomplishments of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo are examined with the emphasis being upon his efforts re...

Theories of Cultural Deviance

Juvenile delinquency is considered in twelve pages within the context of the Theory of Differential Association by Sutherland and ...

Success Evaluation of Juvenile Crimes and Tough Punishment

A research paper consisting of eight pages considers juvenile crime statistics in an assessment of whether or not getting tough on...