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Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...
juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...
turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...
want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...
In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
(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...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...
who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...
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...
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...