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a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
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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...
juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
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...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent 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...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
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 ...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
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...
juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...
Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...