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go unexplained based on ordinary criminological theory. Trait theory provides new explanations for odd behavior. At the same time,...

and is a significant problem, but while the problem remains, legal aid programs do little to help. An example of why this is the c...

an early incident sent Gacy to prison for molesting a teenager and then his wife divorced him (1997). After he served a short pris...

the author notes that labelists do not generally support such simplistic notions (Goode, 1994). In other words, one label does not...

resources on deterring individuals from crime. Socioeconomically disadvantaged and lesser educated individuals seem to be...

windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...

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

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

In eleven pages this paper discusses the correlation between LD students and incidences of delinquency. Nine sources are cited in...

account of youth cultures that exist among white, middle class adolescents in California, and relates these suburban sub-cultures ...

This thirty page paper presents an overview of the Explorers Program, a program that allows juveniles to accompany police officers...

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

want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...

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

be more delinquency in these families (Department of Criminal Justice, 2008). Children are less likely to graduate from high schoo...

emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...

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

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

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

Information about the juvenile system of criminal justice of these three centuries are compared and contrasted. There are 6 bibli...

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

In fifteen pages this paper examines delinquency in terms of the relationship between family life and family structure and delinqu...

basis of social norms, thereby causing them to seek out the only measure of achievement they can. Boot camp and shock incarcerati...

things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...

Before delving into proving the thesis, looking at relevant literature and statistics, it is important to look at drug use and its...

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

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

does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...

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