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see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...

The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

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...

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...

punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

In eight pages this paper examines how to address the problem of juvenile delinquency and how to productively reintroduce offender...

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...