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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...
(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...
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...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
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...
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...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
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...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...
youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...
as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...
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...
compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...