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Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...
to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...
was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...
with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...
A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
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 ...
the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...
as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...
birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
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...
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...