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Essays 271 - 300
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
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...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...
youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
is one of personal lifestyle choice, such as a choice to continue a family tradition of gang affiliation, for instance. The model ...
juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...
Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...
turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...
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...
There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...
sociological or environmental forces. His statement that biology constitutes the only important factor in causing criminality set ...
In seven pages this paper discusses juvenile diabetes in a consideration of the role of nursing intervention in monitoring and tre...
An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...
from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...
This paper examines the social issues of juvenile violence among minorities, and the legal ramifications of trying a child as an a...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
relates to ones personal development, which has been suspected of influencing the rising violent tendency of juveniles. II. TELEV...