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Essays 181 - 210
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
is about one-fourth of the entire population. Of those, over two million are arrested each year. That accounts for about 17 percen...
the criminal justice system, some designed to help inmates, others to keep track of them. This paper discusses a program called "E...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
Analysis There are very few people in society today want to see bad men and women doing bad things in public --...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
between offender and staff and reductions in recidivism, then, are central to acknowledging a variety of new correctional approach...
Over the course of the last decade, researchers, social and criminal theorists, and the general public have debated the issue of p...
reentry of certain criminal populations into the general society. When sexual abusers, for example, are reintroduced into society...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
(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...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
In 8 pages this paper offers solutions to the growing juvenile crime problems and focuses upon valuable programs of victim and off...
This paper examines what alternatives exist in the criminal justice system for youth offenders with the emphasis being on deterren...
Victim offender mediation is discussed in an overview of twelve pages that includes its history, a description, and an assessment ...
This paper consists of eight pages and assesses boot camps for juvenile offenders in terms of their pros and cons with such issues...
In six pages an article that considers the relationship between JTPA program participants who were onetime offenders and those who...
confronting corrections in the 21st century are prison overcrowding, limited funds, and protecting society from criminals by impri...
p.PG). Courts in the West have been struggling with the definition for quite awhile as they try to keep a balance for the right ...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
expect to see relatively consistent figures at each successive stage of the juvenile justice system. In fact, the disparities get...