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Trends and Interventions in Juvenile Justice

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

Strengthening the Juvenile Criminal Justice System

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

Juvenile Justice: Evolution Of Parens Patriae To Due Process

and reformed" (An Overview of Juvenile Justice). Much of the juvenile justice system is comprised of drug-related offenses ...

Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

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

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Adult Court Versus Juvenile Court

2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Juvenile Gang Activity

While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...

Issues in Juvenile Crime

This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

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

Reducing Recidivism, Lancaster, et al (2011)

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

Risk Factors in Criminal Behavior Among Juveniles

Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....

Try Juveniles in Juvenile Courts

This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...

Prison Overcrowding, as a Flaw in Criminal Justice

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

School Truancy, Using Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...

Juvenile Crime Court Approaches and Other Options

disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...

Social Justice and California Juvenile Hall's Minority Student Education

more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...

Preventing Juvenile Delinquency

and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...

Juvenile Law Case Study Analysis

he saw his little sister having sex, he might have been angry enough to throw something. However, whether or not he is guilty of t...

Insanity Defense and Juvenile Justice

to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...

Arguing in Favor of Adult Sentences for Certain Juvenile Offenders

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

Perceptions and Laws Governing Juvenile Justice

There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...

Juvenile Delinquency and A Child's Emotional Needs

contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...

Critically Examining America's Juvenile Gangs

also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...

Two Articles on Criminal Justice Critically Analyzed

effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...

Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency

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

PA's Juvenile Justice System

In eight pages this paper examines 1990s' crime rate statistics in this consideration of Pennsylvania's juvenile crime system. Ei...

Roles of Family, School, and Church in Juvenile Delinquency

In ten pages this paper discusses juvenile delinquency in a consideration of the roles played by family, school, and the church wi...

Assessing the Effectiveness of Juvenile Wilderness Camps

This paper consists of eleven pages and examines whether or not juvenile delinquency is effectively treated through juvenile wilde...