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Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

Pros And Cons Of Interstate Compact, AA Approach, Drug Testing And Restitution For Sex Offenders

erroneously employed as the stand-alone solution of a much more complicated issue. Moreover, there are conflicting findings wheth...

Juveniles, Transfer Laws And Adult Court

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

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...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Jury Trials and Juveniles

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...

Juvenile Offenders and Adult Prosecution

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

Australia and Indigenous Female Convicts

16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...

The War on Drugs in Arizona

per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...

Drug Offenders and Modern Day Prisons

incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...

Juvenile Crime and the Death Penalty

believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...

Proposition 184

drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...

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 ...

Nonviolent Drug Offenders and Incarceration

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

Minor Drug Offenses and Incarceration Alternatives

In ten pages this paper discusses the alternatives to incarceration that might be available to minor drug offenders in the crimina...

H.R. 863 Congressional Bill of 2001

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

Evaluating the Fairness of Megan's Law

headline: "High-Risk Sex Offenders Identified: Post Reporter, 2 Ridge Residents on List" (Sheppard, 1997, p. 37). On July 7, Mei...

Incarceration, Probation, and Rates of Recidivism

is a more certain way to monitor the offenders and also serves to result in a higher rate of those who do not return to a life of ...

Perceptions and Laws Governing Juvenile Justice

There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...

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...

Fully Restorative Programs

An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...

Offender Population and Behavioral Motivation

In five pages the offender population in terms of a lack of motivation is discussed with the argument presented that self worth an...

Juvenile Justice and Morality

In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...

History of Vocational Youth Organizations

In nine pages this paper examines vocational youth organizations from an historical perspective with criminal offender retraining ...

Canada's Struggle With Child Pornography

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 ...

Juveniles and Adult Criminal Sentencing

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

British Law and Criminal Justice System and the Offender as a Victim

In forty five pages this paper discusses the British system of criminal justice in an assessment of the 'offender as victim' conce...

'The Maximum Security Adolescent' by Margaret Talbot

be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...

Why Adolecents Commit Crimes

is about one-fourth of the entire population. Of those, over two million are arrested each year. That accounts for about 17 percen...

Communicating Clearly Verbally and Nonverbally

they dont realize how important non-verbal communication is. This paper considers the impact of verbal and non-verbal communicatio...