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M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...
was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
to the budgetary and constructive limits of the organization. This class also helped me understand the link between different de...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...
A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
reapplying existing ideas" (p. 46). Creative thinking is about putting a new twist on something but it will always involve the kno...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...
Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...
has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...
is one of personal lifestyle choice, such as a choice to continue a family tradition of gang affiliation, for instance. The model ...
2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...
II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...
In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...