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to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...
with an ethical foundation. Out from all the bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: ...
life of this boy, asking what went wrong may help to comprehend juvenile delinquency in America. There are many implications and t...
the most telling incidents was when he told his fathers fiancee, Cathy, that she was insane to consider marrying somebody as self-...
In five pages the journal article featured in a November 4, 1994 issue of Criminology (Vol. 29) entitled, 'The Influence of Delin...
and reformed" (An Overview of Juvenile Justice). Much of the juvenile justice system is comprised of drug-related offenses ...
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...
In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...
M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...
A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...
to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...
emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...
those who already have a predilection to antisocial behavior are far more likely to take the bait of such mind numbing media than ...
in group settings, these community-based probation programs ensure public protection in ways not possible using standard casework ...
on the fact that other states are closing their boot camps for lack of funds and poor success rates, Nunnlee commented "at this po...
and 1991, the number of Violent Crime Index arrests for murder increased by 85 percent, compared with 21 percent for those 18 or o...
In five pages this paper examines mentally retarded adolescence and the increases in juvenile crime which result. There is the in...