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This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...
the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...
In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...
amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...
This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...
In seven pages 2 violent child crime videos are reviewed in terms of the justice system and whether or not it is fair to try youth...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
the death penalty is rarely used and perhaps not used on a consistent basis involving particular crimes. Regardless, however, ther...
this implies that if an individual has been convicted of murdering another human being, then the death of that person is justified...
In seven pages an argument that supports the death penalty as justified punishment in terms of retribution, deterrence, and infall...
and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...
States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...
development necessarily flourish from assuming they want to and will fit into what is needed or what exists" (Schimel, 2008). ...
also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...
Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...
This paper's content is the speaker notes that accompany the PowerPoint presentation khjuvawarpro.ppt, and the topic addressed is ...
A research paper consisting of eight pages considers juvenile crime statistics in an assessment of whether or not getting tough on...
In eight pages this paper examines 1990s' crime rate statistics in this consideration of Pennsylvania's juvenile crime system. Ei...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
see needs that should be filled. Barber has been in the justice system for many years and she finally began to realize that many o...
be the case. This is because they want justice for their loved one. They do not want to see a murderer enjoy even another hour of ...
them by type ("Serial killer," 2005). Motive types of serial killing include the visionary, one that is mission oriented, the hedo...
Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...