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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...

seeds and need punishment. Rather, criminal issues are complicated. In fact, in criminology, the classical school emerged around 1...

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

riotous behavior inasmuch as students contend their rights are being violated by the limitation. The issue at hand, points ...

of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...

The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

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

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

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

While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...

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

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

part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...

(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

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...

parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...

turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...

juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...

Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...

Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...

reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...

believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...