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per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...

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...

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...

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

be better. This is a condition for young women in many situations, and thus also applies to women who ultimately commit crimes who...

An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...

In fourteen pages this paper examines the importance of ethical guidelines with regard to the sexual offender and counselor relati...

headline: "High-Risk Sex Offenders Identified: Post Reporter, 2 Ridge Residents on List" (Sheppard, 1997, p. 37). On July 7, Mei...

from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...

to understand that these characteristics alone do not conclusively determine that a person is a pedophile" (Anonymous Pedophiles a...

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

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...

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...

differentiations between crimes? Is it more important to register a sex offender than a convicted drug dealer or armed robber? Sho...

In ten pages this paper discusses the alternatives to incarceration that might be available to minor drug offenders in the crimina...

There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

is a more certain way to monitor the offenders and also serves to result in a higher rate of those who do not return to a life of ...

In nine pages this paper examines vocational youth organizations from an historical perspective with criminal offender retraining ...

This paper considers the punishment of institutionalizing violent sexual offenders. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

In eight pages this paper examines how to address the problem of juvenile delinquency and how to productively reintroduce offender...