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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...
does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
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...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
(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...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
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...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
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...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
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 ...
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...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...
a result, non-profit and private organizations have tried to step forward to provide diversion programs, or alternates, to incarce...