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Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...
fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...
per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...
16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...
(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...
incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
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...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
(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...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...
erroneously employed as the stand-alone solution of a much more complicated issue. Moreover, there are conflicting findings wheth...
The second basis of the appeal was that evidence of an alibi had been excluded by the initial trial judge under s.150 of the Crimi...
is a law that is more basic that that which is made by man, supports of this such as Aristotle and the stoics such as Cicero and S...
there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...
and complicated issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in any notable fashion" prior to this movie (Tepper, 1995). Fi...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...