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The death penalty has consequently been in and...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
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 administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...
toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...
at the wrong time"), it would be counterproductive both to my brother and to the community to remove him completely from any oppor...
examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
In about six pages this paper examines the controversy regarding 'light' sentences that are often unfairly received for juvenile o...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifested in a number of ways including various arms of corruption within the Chicago p...
corruption in Illinois enjoyed its hey day it seems during the administration of recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifes...