YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Societal Perception of Juvenile Offenders
Essays 631 - 660
In eight pages the deviance concept is examined in an overview that discusses various factors such as the labeling theory with an ...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...
as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...
reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...