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Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, and Girls

compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...

Overview of Juvenile Crime

youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...

Juvenile Sex Crimes and Treatment

juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...

Public Agency's Budget Curbing

cut 2 454900 GROUP TOTAL $689,242 Total salary...

Female Juvenile Delinquency Influences

juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...

Perceptions and Laws Governing Juvenile Justice

There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun and Canada

his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...

Programs and Juvenile Crime

a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...

Theoretical Perspectives on Juvenile Violence

sociological or environmental forces. His statement that biology constitutes the only important factor in causing criminality set ...

Juveniles and Drug Abuse

similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...

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...

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...

PA Act 33 and Juvenile Justice

In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...

Research Studies, School Delinquency, and Disruptive Behaviors

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

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...

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...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

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

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...

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...

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...

AB 2989: Outdoor Environmental Education And Recreation Program

to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...

Juvenile Detention Centers and Suicide

In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...

Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Key Points

2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

Single Parent Households and Juvenile Delinquency

mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...

Juvenile Delinquency and the Group Home

who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...

Theories on Juvenile Delinquency and Its Reasons

duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...

A Juvenile Corrections Exploration

Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...

Juvenile Corrections Facilities

Unfortunately, the United States is becoming a more and more violent and aggressive environment for todays youth. According to sta...