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is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...
not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...
contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...
also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...
their health and their morality. How can something that fits in the palm of ones hand evoke such cultural tension and strife? To ...
In fifteen pages the health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are compared with an emphasis on Canada's private and public fundi...
the states - which paid half the costs. By 1939, all states had enacted OAA and, as a result, it came to be the primary method of ...
amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...
accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...
2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...
of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...
This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...