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of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
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...
(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...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
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...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...