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late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...
less attention and other social problems such as crime and drugs are also more likely to emerge and proliferate due to the level o...
This paper examines the concepts of assimilation and social mobility in the US as they relate to immigration and minority citizens...
hundred years later, Americans are looking for a way to escape the ominous presence of taxation, a system that has succeeded in de...
The US National Holocaust Memorial and Museum is examined in an overview of eight pages and includes history and displayed exhibit...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
he saw his little sister having sex, he might have been angry enough to throw something. However, whether or not he is guilty of t...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...
punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...
expect to see relatively consistent figures at each successive stage of the juvenile justice system. In fact, the disparities get...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
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...
and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...
to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....
This paper discusses the five-stage model developed by the Vera Institute, which describes the process used to enter adolescents i...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...
use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...
While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...