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a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
very distinct physical characteristics (Clinton Community College, n.d.). Examples include a flattened nose, very large jaws, stro...
windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...
In five pages this paper argues against punishing parents for juvenile delinquent behavior of their children but does strongly rec...
In eleven pages this paper discusses the correlation between LD students and incidences of delinquency. Nine sources are cited in...
if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...
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...
want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...
be more delinquency in these families (Department of Criminal Justice, 2008). Children are less likely to graduate from high schoo...
In fifteen pages this paper examines delinquency in terms of the relationship between family life and family structure and delinqu...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
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...