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juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...
as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
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juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...
sociological or environmental forces. His statement that biology constitutes the only important factor in causing criminality set ...
an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...
a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...
achievement and follow a child into his or her adulthood (Ensign, Scherman, and Clark, 1998). Authors such as Wooten (1959), Vold...
by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
(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...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
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 ...