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them a growing population in the world of crime and incarceration. The first section of the book deals with such things as "Trends...
2006). With many available programs for offenders, what might be done with a particularly problematic criminals? II. Case Study: ...
a child sexual offender category but have committed an offense that is related to sexual abuse such as child pornography, solicita...
Community Service" (Probation division, 2001). How It Works Adult services, as the name implies, "is responsible for supervising...
study will involve three groups of between 6 and 8 sex offenders. The student researching this topic should note that, ideally, th...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
for them in many respects. This is something to consider when arguing for involuntary sterilization of child abusers. In the sam...
patterns of response throughout the test. The scales by which alleged or admitted sexual offenders are assessed work in slightly ...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...
per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
be better. This is a condition for young women in many situations, and thus also applies to women who ultimately commit crimes who...
conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...
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...
(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...
is responsible for such behaviors as domestic violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occ...
Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
understanding of the way in which the current system, is failing to serve not only the prison population, but the total population...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...