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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...

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...

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...

Corrections Facilities and Programs for Juvenile Drug Abusers in Cedar City, Utah

be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...

Societal Perception of Juvenile Offenders

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

Two Social Work Issues

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

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Death Penalty for Juveniles

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...

Trying Juveniles

Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...

Strengthening the Juvenile Criminal Justice System

cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...

Juvenile Crime and the Court System

juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...

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...

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 Programs, A Success to Build Upon

is one of personal lifestyle choice, such as a choice to continue a family tradition of gang affiliation, for instance. The model ...

Parens Patriae is Sometimes Necessary

parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...

The Juvenile Justice System, Pro and Con

of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...

The Death Penalty and Juveniles

(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...

Juveniles and the Death Penalty

turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...

Young Women as the Perpetrators of Crime

Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...

BILL OF RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND SECURITY

in his or her favor (Sixth Amendment, 2012). Finally we have the Fourteenth Amendment. Though not part of the original Bill of Rig...

JUVENILE JUSTICE PROCESS

further into the system (Juvenile Justice System, 2012). Sometimes, juveniles can enter the system through a child welfare agency ...

Rectifying Overcrowded Prisons and Recidivism

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

Setting Appropriate Goals for Children with Disabilities

reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...

California Foster Care Agencies and the Criminal Justice System

for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...

Correctional Programs/Juveniles

decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...

Probation and the Role of Officers

process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...

Rehabilitation in Juvenile Justice

century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...

Overview of the Juvenile Justice System

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...