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Reactions of the Libyan forces to the protests have included the indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilians by military aircraft. ...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
that "natural crime" is a crime against the laws that were given to all men by God, whereas "legal crime" is "an act that violates...
The writer discusses the crime of neonaticide (killing of infants) with specific reference to the case of Amy Grossberg and Brian ...
publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...
Over the last decade, there have been numerous high-profile, huge scams from organizations. These are called white-collar crimes a...
II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...
rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...
be charged with statutory rape even if the girl consents, provided she is not of age. If she wants to make love with her boyfriend...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
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...
2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
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...
if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...
In 5 pages this paper on juvenile crime discusses the effects of weapons and drugs on its incidences. There are 4 sources cited i...