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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...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...
A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
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...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
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...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
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...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
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...