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juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
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...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
This 25 page paper looks at the setting up of online tax filing and tax payment systems. The paper starts by outlines the way that...
riotous behavior inasmuch as students contend their rights are being violated by the limitation. The issue at hand, points ...
The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...
of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
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...
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...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
the Bloods and the Crips, both originating in Los Angeles (Siegel, Welsh & Senna, 2005). Both gangs mentioned expanded to the poi...
This book review is on a juvenile, Christian novel that features a funny, charismatic sixth grader. The write assumes the persona ...
In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at juvenile delinquency. Modern trends and historical causes alike are examined. Paper...