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issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
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...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
seeds and need punishment. Rather, criminal issues are complicated. In fact, in criminology, the classical school emerged around 1...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
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believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...
was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...
Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...