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with an ethical foundation. Out from all the bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: ...
Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...
pursue their dreams after weve inspired them to dream " (Tilles 1995). Is it easier to make an effort to correct a behavior if we...
In eight pages the deviance concept is examined in an overview that discusses various factors such as the labeling theory with an ...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
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...
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...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...
part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...
century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...
Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...
in his or her favor (Sixth Amendment, 2012). Finally we have the Fourteenth Amendment. Though not part of the original Bill of Rig...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
further into the system (Juvenile Justice System, 2012). Sometimes, juveniles can enter the system through a child welfare agency ...
This paper discusses the five-stage model developed by the Vera Institute, which describes the process used to enter adolescents i...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the trying of juvenile offenders in adult courts. Insights are derived from an anno...
This research paper describes the various approaches that have been tried in regard how best to handle juvenile justice and the wr...
This essay reports an empirical research study that focused on the effect of neighborhoods on juvenile delinquency and recidivism....