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Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

Answering Economic Questions

(Nellis and Parkler, 1998). Therefore once more or less than the optimal number of units are produced the average total cost will ...

Should Juveniles Be Tried as Adults?

Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...

Against Illegal Immigration

eradicated in the US; suggestions to tighten borders, punish those who hire illegal workers; eliminate amnesty IV CONCLUS...

Core Concepts of Juvenile Delinquency

is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...

Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

Street Gangs and Juvenile Delinquency

not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...

The Reduction in Criminal Offences After Adolescence

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

The Change In Family Structure

applies a qualitative approach in order to reach into the greater human element involved in this particular subject matter. Indee...

Juvenile Justice: Evolution Of Parens Patriae To Due Process

and reformed" (An Overview of Juvenile Justice). Much of the juvenile justice system is comprised of drug-related offenses ...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

Uncertainty and Culture Change

parents for the safety of their children, wanting to know where they are and who they are with. There is an increased feeling of t...

Rick Porrello's The History of the Cleveland Mafia

In 10 pages this memoir considers the author's family's organized crime activities during the Prohibition era. One source is cite...

An Overview of Child Custody Issues in America

This paper examines various child custody issues in the United States. The author addresses cases from current events, including ...

Divorce Effects on Children

In ten pages social research is applied to the issue of divorce and how it impacts upon children with changes that have occurred w...

Functioning of a Single Parent Household

by the therapeutic community. The term "nuclear family" brings to mind the American concept of the ideal family, of the mot...

Poverty Crisis

group that has so far studied the cost of living in metropolitan and rural areas in ten states" (Bettendorf 2000, 4). All indic...

Scenarios Featuring Single Parenting

place one squarely in the middle of the single parents role. For some this role, however, is a desired one and not a burden. For...

Erik Erikson and Children with Single Parents

go to daycare or school * Single parents have no personal "sick days," a real problem when children are small...

Parents and Time with Children

time together. But, as is the case with any research, any real changes in society are not really evident or available through rese...

Youth Violence In The United States

in a society where proper parenting has become a thing of the past. Detachment of this extent can reach epic proportions when men...

Single Parents Must Rise to the Challenge

to make up for the dissolution of the nuclear family as a whole. Much has changed in our society over time. In traditional socie...

Single Parenting

has not been good and people died young quite often. Many women died in childbirth, many men went off to war and died, and childre...

Families Should Decide Own Health Goals

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

Parental Punishment and Juvenile Delinquency

In five pages this paper argues against punishing parents for juvenile delinquent behavior of their children but does strongly rec...

Children from Single or Two Parent Homes and Academic Achievement

In this paper consisting of ten pages researchers consider whether or not it is possible to determine if there is a link between t...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

Neonaticide

The writer discusses the crime of neonaticide (killing of infants) with specific reference to the case of Amy Grossberg and Brian ...

Sociological Effects of Single Parenting

parents were to divorce when the time came that their relationship was no longer considered beneficial. "For many children, the e...

4 Questions on Criminal Justice

II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...