SEARCH RESULTS

2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

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

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...

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

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

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...

be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...

the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...

cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...

was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...

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...

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

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

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...

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

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 ...