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with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...
not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...
fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...
In eight pages this paper examines how to address the problem of juvenile delinquency and how to productively reintroduce offender...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
Clearly, not everyone is a fan of the boot camp approach to rehabilitation, with critics contending how such brutal methods do not...
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...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...
An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...
from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...
be arrested, even though he was portrayed as basically a good kid. Jeff is a case study that commences this article which tugs at...
In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...
This paper consists of eight pages and assesses boot camps for juvenile offenders in terms of their pros and cons with such issues...
In 8 pages this paper offers solutions to the growing juvenile crime problems and focuses upon valuable programs of victim and off...