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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...

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...

Female Juvenile Delinquency Influences

juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...

Juvenile Delinquency and the Group Home

who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...

Single Parent Households and Juvenile Delinquency

mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...

Theories on Juvenile Delinquency and Its Reasons

duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...

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...

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...

A Criminology Overview

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

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...

Research Studies, School Delinquency, and Disruptive Behaviors

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

School Truancy, Using Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...

Juvenile Arrests 2001

the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...

Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency

(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...

Scared Straight Programs and Deterrence Theory

This paper's content is the speaker notes that accompany the PowerPoint presentation khjuvawarpro.ppt, and the topic addressed is ...

Juvenile Crime Theories

This paper, first of all, discusses a recent murder case and then describes the juvenile delinquency theories that are relevant to...

Delinquency and Labeling Theory

try to negotiate the labels and in fact, they "attempt to disavow their deviant imputations" (Adams, 2003). These theorists do not...

Juvenile Crime and Programs of Shock Incarceration and Boot Camps

on the fact that other states are closing their boot camps for lack of funds and poor success rates, Nunnlee commented "at this po...

Juvenile Justice Programs, A Success to Build Upon

is one of personal lifestyle choice, such as a choice to continue a family tradition of gang affiliation, for instance. The model ...

Police Officers and Domestic Violence

In ten pages this research paper examines the incidences of domestic violence in the law enforcement profession and how the relati...

Gang Prevention Programs in Schools and an Article Review of 'How Great is G.R.E.A.T. (Gang resistance education and training)?'

that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...

Nurse Attendees Responses to an Educational Program

The writer presents the simulated results from a questionnaire used to collect the perception of nurses who attended a training p...

Program for the Prevention of Teen Suicide

suicide. This same instrument can be used following therapy to determine differences before and after counseling. Because teen su...

Evaluation of a Prevention Program

the standards of utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy (CDC, 1999). These standards are defined by the CDC in the followin...

A Program to Reduce Infidelity

Vaughan also argues that it is unlikely that with this level of occurrence the reasons behind infidelity are unlikely to be simply...

Decreasing Drop-Out Rate In Washington State

rate in the state of Washington was 30 percent (Puget Sound Educational Service District, 2006). Although how this figure was dete...

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...

How to Prevent Youth Recruitment by The Bloods

the Bloods and the Crips, both originating in Los Angeles (Siegel, Welsh & Senna, 2005). Both gangs mentioned expanded to the poi...

Juvenile Justice and Individual Prevention

This research paper describes the various approaches that have been tried in regard how best to handle juvenile justice and the wr...

Should Juveniles Be Tried as Adults?

Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...