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treated (Hare, 1993). They basically do not believe they have a problem. In most cases, people seek treatment because they want to...

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

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

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

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accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...

of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...

This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...

States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...

This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...

This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...

In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...

punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...

be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...

Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...

the most telling incidents was when he told his fathers fiancee, Cathy, that she was insane to consider marrying somebody as self-...

also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...