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Anomie Theory of Delinquency and Juvenile Delinquency

cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...

Research Studies, School Delinquency, and Disruptive Behaviors

programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...

Juvenile Offenders and Capital Punishment

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...

Euthanasia

i.e., death. While euthanasia does not allow people to avoid the "cause of our fear-death-it does allow us to control its manner, ...

Societal Perception of Juvenile Offenders

with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...

Medical Testing On Animals

on animal use in experiments for human well being (Singh, 2006). II. IN FAVOR OF Michael et al (1994) attempt to sharpen...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

Juvenile Delinquency and Gender

help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...

Children and Diabetes

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

Addressing the Causes of Juvenile Delinquency

statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...

The Many Impacts of Domestic Violence

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

Life Effects of Insulin

would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

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...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

Jury Trials and Juveniles

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...

Prevention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

Community Programs and Juvenile Delinquency

do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Death Penalty for Juveniles

has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...

Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Programs

to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...

Juveniles and the Death Penalty

turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...

Young Women as the Perpetrators of Crime

Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...

Parens Patriae is Sometimes Necessary

parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...

Juvenile Delinquency and Sexual Abuse

want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...