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“Natural Crimes” and “Legal Crimes”

be charged with statutory rape even if the girl consents, provided she is not of age. If she wants to make love with her boyfriend...

Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Key Points

2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Juvenile Justice, Due Process, and Social Control

Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...

Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Programs

to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...

Juvenile Arrests 2001

the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...

Case Disposition and Drug Offenders

of drug case is processed across the state (OSCA, 2004). For instance, a drug offender might be assigned to a treatment program du...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Mixed Method Study and Juvenile Crime Intervention Strategies

The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...

Trying Juveniles as Adults and Crime Deterrence

of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

Overview of Juvenile Crime

youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...

Prevention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun and Canada

his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...

Programs and Juvenile Crime

a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...

Connection Between Poverty and Juvenile Crime in Australia

In five pages Australia is the focus of this inquiry into the relationship between juvenile delinquency and crime with topics incl...

Florida Community Approaches to Juvenile Crime

In eight pages this paper discusses how recidivism rates can be improved through community based programs in a consideration of Fl...

Problems Associated with Juvenile Crime

Juvenile crime is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...

Gideon’s Trumpet & Constitutional Law

a capital case, Gideons request did not fit the parameters of Betts. In the early chapters of his book, Lewis provides this backgr...

Juvenile Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...

Juvenile Crime Approaches and Restorative Judgment Value

groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....

Comparing Federal and Texas State Judicial Systems

well as handling legal matters. Although literature is sparse as to why the Texas justices are elected rather than appoint...

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...

Delinquency and Crime Correlation

of aggravated assault yet lacks the capacity to ascertain that he actually committed a crime, then it would seem prudent that he b...

Problems and Solutions Regarding Juvenile Crime

In 8 pages this paper offers solutions to the growing juvenile crime problems and focuses upon valuable programs of victim and off...

Drug Usage and Theories on Juvenile Crime

In ten pages this paper examines drug use as one of the primary juvenile crime causes in a consideration of various theories inclu...

Culture of Turkey

In 8 pages this paper on the culture of Turkey includes a discussion of popular music, juvenile crime, and prisons. There are 5 ...

Crime, Drugs, Guns, and Juvenile

In 5 pages this paper on juvenile crime discusses the effects of weapons and drugs on its incidences. There are 4 sources cited i...