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done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

(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...

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...

would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

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...

understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...

attention in their federal death penalty trial in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Michael L. Taylor and Keon D. Moses start...

windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...

very distinct physical characteristics (Clinton Community College, n.d.). Examples include a flattened nose, very large jaws, stro...

heinous, atrocious or cruel, that the crime was committed for the purposes of avoiding or presenting ...a lawful arrest, and that ...

left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken". The job confronting the juvenile officer then is fixing the wi...

the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...

a result, non-profit and private organizations have tried to step forward to provide diversion programs, or alternates, to incarce...

need it, and monitor their blood; both of these could interfere with daily routine and make the child feel hes being singled out (...

account of youth cultures that exist among white, middle class adolescents in California, and relates these suburban sub-cultures ...

In five pages this paper discusses the insulin dependent form of diabetes that was once thought to only affect young children. Si...

In eleven pages this paper discusses the correlation between LD students and incidences of delinquency. Nine sources are cited in...

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, ...

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...

This research paper focuses on the role of peer pressure in regards to adolescent use of marijuana. Whether or not marijuana shoul...