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Delinquency Concept Evaluation

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

Juvenile Gang Activity

While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...

Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

Overview of Deviance

In eight pages the deviance concept is examined in an overview that discusses various factors such as the labeling theory with an ...

Impact of Disruptive Family

be more delinquency in these families (Department of Criminal Justice, 2008). Children are less likely to graduate from high schoo...

Programs Targeting Juvenile Crime

gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...

Problems with the Juvenile System in America

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

1830 Swing Riots and Their Causes

from many different sources, some more literate than others, and some were quite clearly fakes or parodies (such as one written by...

Delinquency and Deviance Theories

However, in some cases the desired goals would not be equally available to all social groups, in others there might be too...

Gender and Delinquency

of girls during the same period rose 6% (Siegel and Welsh, 2005). Even more striking and troubling is the fact that arrests for se...

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

Overview of Juvenile Crime

youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...

Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, and Girls

compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...

Functional and Behavioral Approaches to Juvenile Delinquency

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

Canada, Victimization, and Juvenile Delinquency

reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...

Female Juvenile Delinquency Influences

juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun and Canada

his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...

At Risk Program Design Targeting Juvenile Delinquency

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...

Connection Between Poverty and Juvenile Crime in Australia

In five pages Australia is the focus of this inquiry into the relationship between juvenile delinquency and crime with topics incl...

Juvenile Delinquency Influential Factors

achievement and follow a child into his or her adulthood (Ensign, Scherman, and Clark, 1998). Authors such as Wooten (1959), Vold...

System of Criminal Justice and Juvenile Delinquency

In seven pages this report discusses contributing factors of juvenile delinquency and discusses how it is defined within the crimi...

Contemporary Juvenile Delinquency

In fifteen pages this paper examines the current state of juvenile delinquency in America in a consideration of various treatments...

Parental Blame and Juvenile Delinquency

In eight pages this paper examines child behavior and juvenile delinquency with a consideration of parental roles and influences u...

Juvenile Delinquency and Illiteracy

In ten pages this paper examines the linkage between juvenile delinquency and illiteracy. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Juvenile Delinquency as it Presently Exists

by which to vent their anger, which can translate into juvenile delinquency. It is important for the student to realize that aggr...

Juvenile Delinquency and the Group Home

who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...

Single Parent Households and Juvenile Delinquency

mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...

Theories on Juvenile Delinquency and Its Reasons

duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...

Community Programs and Juvenile Delinquency

do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...