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be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
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 ...
of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...
and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...
the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
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...
decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...
reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...
Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...
serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...
In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...
2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...
II. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE CLASSIFICATION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS More than one hundred and seventy years ago, the...
emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...
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...
has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...
The death penalty has consequently been in and...
Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...