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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...
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...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...
the juveniles who are punished through the adult court (Urbina and White, 2009, p. 122). Ostensibly, the purpose of transferring y...
part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...
by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...
This paper examines the social issues of juvenile violence among minorities, and the legal ramifications of trying a child as an a...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
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...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
In five pages this paper examines trying juveniles in adult courts in an assessment of the pros and cons of this practice with reh...
In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the trying of juvenile offenders in adult courts. Insights are derived from an anno...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...