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Gender, Family/Juvenile Delinquency

one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...

Correctional Programs/Juveniles

decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...

Probation and the Role of Officers

process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...

Rehabilitation in Juvenile Justice

century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...

California Foster Care Agencies and the Criminal Justice System

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

Trends and Interventions in Juvenile Justice

be minors. One aspect of being a minor is the inability to enter a legally binding contract. For many, this represents a glaring l...

Setting Appropriate Goals for Children with Disabilities

reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...

Juvenile Delinquency, Rebel Without a Cause, and Sociology

social factors can be used as the best method to explain juvenile delinquency. Differential Association In 1939 Criminologist Edw...

Youth Offenses, the Juvenile Justice System, and Probation Issues

rather noble institution and embraces the authority to encompass the most important duty imaginable which is to protect and reform...

Juvenile Violence and Florida vs. Leonardo Diaz

In six pages this paper discusses juvenile case handling in America with the emphasis being upon this Florida state case. Five so...

Juvenile Literature and 'Outsider' Children

In five pages social exclusion of children for various reasons are examined within the context of such juvenile literary works as ...

Parental Punishment and Juvenile Delinquency

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

Juvenile Justice and Morality

In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...

Parental Blame and Juvenile Delinquency

In eight pages this paper examines child behavior and juvenile delinquency with a consideration of parental roles and influences u...

Contemporary Juvenile Delinquency

In fifteen pages this paper examines the current state of juvenile delinquency in America in a consideration of various treatments...

Juvenile Delinquency and Illiteracy

In ten pages this paper examines the linkage between juvenile delinquency and illiteracy. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

Juvenile Delinquency and Gender

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

Children and Diabetes

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Jury Trials and Juveniles

Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

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

Community Programs and Juvenile Delinquency

do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...

Prevention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

The Many Impacts of Domestic Violence

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

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

England's Crime and Crime and Punishment from 1800 to 1850

times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...