SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Programs Targeting Juvenile Crime

Essays 61 - 90

Australia's Approach to Crime Prevention

NCPPs objectives are to identify and promote innovative ways of reducing and preventing crime and the fear of crime. The program i...

History and Progress of Community Policing

In seven pages community policing is considered in terms of history and impact of 1994's Crime Act that established a COPS grant p...

Natural and Legal Crime

that "natural crime" is a crime against the laws that were given to all men by God, whereas "legal crime" is "an act that violates...

“Natural Crimes” and “Legal Crimes”

be charged with statutory rape even if the girl consents, provided she is not of age. If she wants to make love with her boyfriend...

Investigating Different Crimes

Over the last decade, there have been numerous high-profile, huge scams from organizations. These are called white-collar crimes a...

Neonaticide

The writer discusses the crime of neonaticide (killing of infants) with specific reference to the case of Amy Grossberg and Brian ...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

4 Questions on Criminal Justice

II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Key Points

2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

Juvenile Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...

Juvenile Crime and the Court System

juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...

Juvenile Justice, Due Process, and Social Control

Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun and Canada

his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...

Connection Between Poverty and Juvenile Crime in Australia

In five pages Australia is the focus of this inquiry into the relationship between juvenile delinquency and crime with topics incl...

Problems Associated with Juvenile Crime

Juvenile crime is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...

Aspects of Crime

things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...

Overview of Juvenile Crime

youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

Crime, Drugs, Guns, and Juvenile

In 5 pages this paper on juvenile crime discusses the effects of weapons and drugs on its incidences. There are 4 sources cited i...

Trying Juveniles as Adults and Crime Deterrence

of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...

Steve Christian's 'Out of Lock-UP: Now What?', Juvenile Crime and Drug Use

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

Mixed Method Study and Juvenile Crime Intervention Strategies

The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...

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 ...

Criminal Law and Current Trends

In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...

Juvenile Crime Approaches and Restorative Judgment Value

groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

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

Options for Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Crime

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...