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out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
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...
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...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
enjoy each others company, happy to but there, not feeling any awkwardness at the absence of words, just feeling contented. Thes...
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...
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...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
facets of daily life, from job availability to health care and public education, but the list is growing, even to the long term af...
(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...
theoretical framework for promoting professional development through the use of quality circles. This management theory involves a...
between 100,000 and 249,999 population (St. Gerard, 2004). Gang activity was also reported in more than 2,300 cities where the pop...
for clean-up, the bottles and plates end up becoming trash, which ends up clogging landfills (and filling landfills) and ends up t...
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...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
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...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
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...
to restore security by those that had lost it as a result of changing lifestyles associated with their changing occupations. As f...
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...