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Juvenile Delinquency and Illiteracy

In ten pages this paper examines the linkage between juvenile delinquency and illiteracy. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Contemporary Juvenile Delinquency

In fifteen pages this paper examines the current state of juvenile delinquency in America in a consideration of various treatments...

Parental Blame and Juvenile Delinquency

In eight pages this paper examines child behavior and juvenile delinquency with a consideration of parental roles and influences u...

Juvenile Violence and Florida vs. Leonardo Diaz

In six pages this paper discusses juvenile case handling in America with the emphasis being upon this Florida state case. Five so...

Juvenile Literature and 'Outsider' Children

In five pages social exclusion of children for various reasons are examined within the context of such juvenile literary works as ...

Parental Punishment and Juvenile Delinquency

In five pages this paper argues against punishing parents for juvenile delinquent behavior of their children but does strongly rec...

Florida Community Approaches to Juvenile Crime

In eight pages this paper discusses how recidivism rates can be improved through community based programs in a consideration of Fl...

Problems Associated with Juvenile Crime

Juvenile crime is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Juvenile Delinquency as it Presently Exists

by which to vent their anger, which can translate into juvenile delinquency. It is important for the student to realize that aggr...

Minority Groups and Juvenile Violence

This paper examines the social issues of juvenile violence among minorities, and the legal ramifications of trying a child as an a...

England's Crime and Crime and Punishment from 1800 to 1850

times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...

At Risk Program Design Targeting Juvenile Delinquency

an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...

Addressing the Causes of Juvenile Delinquency

statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...

The Many Impacts of Domestic Violence

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

Juvenile Delinquency and Gender

help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...

Children and Diabetes

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Juvenile Offenders and Capital Punishment

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

Research Studies, School Delinquency, and Disruptive Behaviors

programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

Community Programs and Juvenile Delinquency

do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...

Prevention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

Jury Trials and Juveniles

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...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...