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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...

similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...

an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...

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...

compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

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...

for the next several years. The exceptions to this generalization are some older youths who get involved in car theft, robbery, bu...

This paper consists of twelve pages and two chapters regarding the social environment provided by the home and its impact upon juv...

This paper consists of seven pages and discusses the changes of the family since the Fifties and its impact upon increased juvenil...

by juveniles. Tragedies such as Jonesboro, Arkansas; Bethel, Alaska and Paducah, Kentucky have shocked the world as young people h...

This paper addresses the idea of using education as a preventative measure for fighting crime. The author focuses on juvenile del...

In four pages the use of government funds in the treatment and prevention of juvenile delinquency is assessed in order to determin...

In five pages this paper examines mentally retarded adolescence and the increases in juvenile crime which result. There is the in...

This research paper attempts to define exactly what makes up exploitation of women in advertising. The author also addresses alle...

executes minors (Eckford). This may surprise some as the United States system of justice has always been looked up to compared wit...

In four pages this paper argues that children should not be legally punished as adults and confined to separate juvenile detention...

In five pages a speech discussing juvenile crime problems proposes some radical solutions by President Bill Clinton in a considera...

This paper consists of four pages and considers the societal roles juvenile halls and prisons play regarding youth crime. Three s...

This paper consists of ten pages and assesses juvenile detention centers and their impact. Eight sources are cited in the bibliog...

In nine pages political, social, and economic issues are considered in this discussion of juvenile offenders and capital punishmen...

In about six pages this paper examines the controversy regarding 'light' sentences that are often unfairly received for juvenile o...

in group settings, these community-based probation programs ensure public protection in ways not possible using standard casework ...

In nine pages this paper examines punishment for juvenile delinquency in an evaluation of program strengths and weaknesses with bo...

on the fact that other states are closing their boot camps for lack of funds and poor success rates, Nunnlee commented "at this po...

and 1991, the number of Violent Crime Index arrests for murder increased by 85 percent, compared with 21 percent for those 18 or o...

In nine pages this paper examines the problem of juvenile delinquency in American society with the primary focus being upon the yo...