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a responsive juvenile justice system is critical (Briscoe, 1997). In Texas, for example, children as young as ten will fall und...
(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...
In eight pages the deviance concept is examined in an overview that discusses various factors such as the labeling theory with an ...
emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...
Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...
see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
for the next several years. The exceptions to this generalization are some older youths who get involved in car theft, robbery, bu...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...
of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...
111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...
closely at how and why the dam was built. Glen Canyon Dam One of the most powerful elements, or perspectives, in...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
proven detrimental to all Los Angeles communities that become caught in the crossfire of racial discord. So prevalent is the viol...
This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...
religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...
gang members. Over their history they have also been known to unite as in the 1980s when the Gangster Disciples and Latin Disciple...
This 6 page paper discusses the development of the gang culture in Shanghai and Los Angeles, the causes of such behavior and the c...
own wives for 9/11 widows. While perhaps these individuals were not burned out, one can see how someone in a helping profession ca...
disintegration exists and how it exists so that effort can be focused to prevent the conflict arising and ensure that there is int...
by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...
gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...
city" (Duke, 2000, 3). Most people became familiar with such locations during the 1960s and 1970s when the so-called "white flight...
that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...
that accounts for gang activity. By studying some of the biggest gangs in the nation, especially those in Chicago (The Latin King...
happens is that while gang injunctions prohibit gang-banging activities like vandalism, graffiti, and possessing weapons, the inj...
they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...
areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...