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one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...
decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...
process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...
century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...
for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...
be minors. One aspect of being a minor is the inability to enter a legally binding contract. For many, this represents a glaring l...
reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...
(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...
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...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
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...
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...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
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...
the footprint we leave on the world. Geothermal energy is made possible because of the heat differential that exists betwee...
a company has made the decision to globalise there are many consideration, the decisions not enough. George S Yip outlines a pract...
one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...
Genetically altered food stuffs offer an avenue of meeting our food needs on the limited areas which we have available. G...
Our conception of the ideal diet is shaped by a number of factors. As Pollan observes, many of these factors are political and sh...