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In eight pages the deviance concept is examined in an overview that discusses various factors such as the labeling theory with an ...
compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...
things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...
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...
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are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...
if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...
mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...
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...
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...
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...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
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...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
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 ...
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...