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Mental Illness And The Juvenile Offender

to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...

Scared Straight Programs and Deterrence Theory

This paper's content is the speaker notes that accompany the PowerPoint presentation khjuvawarpro.ppt, and the topic addressed is ...

Issues in Juvenile Delinquency

This research paper pertains to the association between child abuse and juvenile delinquency. The paper also discusses the relati...

Its Past, Police Discretion and Juvenile Justice

This research paper pertains to the history of juvenile courts and describes how it has changed over the course of the twentieth c...

Juvenile Delinquency and Gender

help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...

Children and Diabetes

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Jury Trials and Juveniles

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...

The “N” World and the Constitutional Right to Free Speech

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...

Female and Male Delinquents

This research paper presents discussions on the differences between male and female juvenile delinquents and how female delinquent...

Juveniles, Transfer Laws And Adult Court

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

Type 1 Diabetes

was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...

Should Minors be Tried as Adults?

approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...

Case Study Analyses in Criminal Justice

M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...

Anomie Theory of Delinquency and Juvenile Delinquency

cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...

Article Critique/Male v. Female Substance Abuse Patterns

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

Two Social Work Issues

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

Societal Perception of Juvenile Offenders

with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...

Juvenile Offenders Should Not Always Be Tried As Adults

#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...

Is the Death Penalty for Juveniles Constitutional?

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency

(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...

Turkey's System of Criminal Justice

security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...

Defense of Laredo, Texas' Juvenile Detention Center

not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...

Juvenile Delinquency and the Group Home

who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...

US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Single Parent Households and Juvenile Delinquency

mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...

Developmental Psychology and a Premier Virtual Computer Generated Symposium

labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...

Theories on Juvenile Delinquency and Its Reasons

duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...

Insanity Defense and Juvenile Justice

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