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is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

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...

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...

States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...

punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...

This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

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

gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...