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was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
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...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
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...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
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...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...
emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...
In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...
to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...
seeds and need punishment. Rather, criminal issues are complicated. In fact, in criminology, the classical school emerged around 1...
more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...
and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...
as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...