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The death penalty has consequently been in and...
has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...
to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...
Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...
cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...
be minors. One aspect of being a minor is the inability to enter a legally binding contract. For many, this represents a glaring l...
for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...
reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...
part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...
one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...
decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...
process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...
century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...
(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...
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...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...