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Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

Overcrowding in German Prisons

one third during this period ("Where is"). While this increase differed in severity between German states, all states experienced ...

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

Rectifying Overcrowded Prisons and Recidivism

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

Integrating Information about Violence in Prisons

2009). During this incident, 32 inmates and 11 guards were killed. In 1980 there was a riot in a prison in New Mexico that took ...

The Importance of Prison Reform

Indeed, the law is not perfect, which is why the average citizen should care about the prison system. Even if they do not break th...

HIV in the California Prison System

economic and historical issues surrounding the problem of HIV in prison. Perhaps one place to start is to look at the overall pro...

Criminal Justice V

offender and his history at the time of his arrest. Protection of society. This goal of sentencing is to remove the offend...

Youth and the Societal Roles of Juvenile Halls and Prisons

This paper consists of four pages and considers the societal roles juvenile halls and prisons play regarding youth crime. Three s...

Culture of Turkey

In 8 pages this paper on the culture of Turkey includes a discussion of popular music, juvenile crime, and prisons. There are 5 ...

Prison Violence

home (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2001). Those who live in poverty have always been the victims of the most violenc...

Overcrowding of Prisons

Building the new prison was supposed "expunge a stigma" from the state, and "Maine officials expected the savings in operating exp...

Prison Overcrowding, as a Flaw in Criminal Justice

This paper focuses on prison overcrowding as an ethical issue that affects the American criminal justice system Three pages in len...

Challenges for the Criminal Justice Administrator

executive officer (CEO) of a small corporation (Dennis, 1999). For example, a "typical medium security prison houses 1,300 inmates...

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...

Core Concepts of Juvenile Delinquency

is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...

Problems with the Juvenile System in America

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

The Reduction in Criminal Offences After Adolescence

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

Street Gangs and Juvenile Delinquency

not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...

Programs Targeting Juvenile Crime

gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...

Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

History of Juvenile Boot Camps

2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...

Prison and Juveniles

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Juvenile And Adult Court: Comparison

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

Analysis of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

Life in Prison from the Inside

are not always paragons of virtue; they may use methods of unfair intimidation against certain inmates while allowing the actions ...

Research Proposal; Success Factors in Rehabilitation in Ugandan Prisons

understanding of the way in which the current system, is failing to serve not only the prison population, but the total population...

Law Enforcement, Prison Overcrowding and Privatization :

While the region was relatively rural and it ultimately existed on the outskirts of the county, with many dirt roads and limited a...