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serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...
one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...
decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...
process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...
century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...
be minors. One aspect of being a minor is the inability to enter a legally binding contract. For many, this represents a glaring l...
Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...
reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...
for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...
cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...
Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...
to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...
Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...
want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...
juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...
is one of personal lifestyle choice, such as a choice to continue a family tradition of gang affiliation, for instance. The model ...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...
in his or her favor (Sixth Amendment, 2012). Finally we have the Fourteenth Amendment. Though not part of the original Bill of Rig...
further into the system (Juvenile Justice System, 2012). Sometimes, juveniles can enter the system through a child welfare agency ...
the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...
the Bloods and the Crips, both originating in Los Angeles (Siegel, Welsh & Senna, 2005). Both gangs mentioned expanded to the poi...
behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...
use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...
riotous behavior inasmuch as students contend their rights are being violated by the limitation. The issue at hand, points ...