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This paper consists of seven pages and discusses the changes of the family since the Fifties and its impact upon increased juvenil...
by juveniles. Tragedies such as Jonesboro, Arkansas; Bethel, Alaska and Paducah, Kentucky have shocked the world as young people h...
This paper addresses the idea of using education as a preventative measure for fighting crime. The author focuses on juvenile del...
In four pages the use of government funds in the treatment and prevention of juvenile delinquency is assessed in order to determin...
In five pages this paper examines mentally retarded adolescence and the increases in juvenile crime which result. There is the in...
In nine pages this paper examines punishment for juvenile delinquency in an evaluation of program strengths and weaknesses with bo...
on the fact that other states are closing their boot camps for lack of funds and poor success rates, Nunnlee commented "at this po...
and 1991, the number of Violent Crime Index arrests for murder increased by 85 percent, compared with 21 percent for those 18 or o...
In nine pages this paper examines the problem of juvenile delinquency in American society with the primary focus being upon the yo...
In five pages the accomplishments of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo are examined with the emphasis being upon his efforts re...
Juvenile delinquency is considered in twelve pages within the context of the Theory of Differential Association by Sutherland and ...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
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...
(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...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...