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amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...
NCPPs objectives are to identify and promote innovative ways of reducing and preventing crime and the fear of crime. The program i...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...
This thirty page paper presents an overview of the Explorers Program, a program that allows juveniles to accompany police officers...
on the fact that other states are closing their boot camps for lack of funds and poor success rates, Nunnlee commented "at this po...
In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...
accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...
This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
years ago that could benefit children in those districts that had adopted alternative approaches, and has been challenged in varyi...
fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...
This paper features two topics. the first relates to the bullying and the role it plays in regards to school shootings. The second...
In four pages the use of government funds in the treatment and prevention of juvenile delinquency is assessed in order to determin...
and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...
to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...