SEARCH RESULTS

to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...

serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...

In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...

emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...

want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...

is one of personal lifestyle choice, such as a choice to continue a family tradition of gang affiliation, for instance. The model ...

juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...

Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...

parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...

to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...

Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...

cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...

Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...

part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...

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 ...

decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...

process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...

century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...

be minors. One aspect of being a minor is the inability to enter a legally binding contract. For many, this represents a glaring l...

reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...

in his or her favor (Sixth Amendment, 2012). Finally we have the Fourteenth Amendment. Though not part of the original Bill of Rig...

further into the system (Juvenile Justice System, 2012). Sometimes, juveniles can enter the system through a child welfare agency ...