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US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Study:

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

Problems with the Juvenile System in America

publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...

Juvenile Justice Diversion Programs - Their Importance

States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...

Comparisons Between Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

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...

Aspects of Crime

things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...

Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

Delinquency Concept Evaluation

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

Overview of the Juvenile Justice System

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...

US Juvenile Justice System

(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...

The Juvenile Justice System

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

English Legal System and Inquisitorial and Adversarial Approaches

may be more equal than others, having the funds to hire the most experiences and persuasive lawyers that will not only be able to ...

Criminal Justice System and Fairness

amazed that Bostick consented to the search. The United States Supreme Court held that Bostick had the ability to refuse. ...

North Carolin's Justice

of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...

Issues Pertaining to Juvenile Court System

This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...

Massachusetts Program of Juvenile Courts and Crime Prevention Policy

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

Prison and Juveniles

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...

Understanding and Addressing Juvenile Crime

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

Options for Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Crime

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

Criminal Law and Current Trends

In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...

Juvenile Justice: The Importance of Separating Juveniles and Adults

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

Process of Juvenile Justice

punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...

Women and Children as Products in the Sex Industry

Women and children have been exploited throughout history by those that seek to profit in one way or another from that...

Street Gangs and Juvenile Delinquency

not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...

Juvenile And Adult Court: Comparison

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

African Americans, Poverty, and the War on Drugs

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the criminal justice system in regards to multicultural problems. This paper includes the s...

The Reduction in Criminal Offences After Adolescence

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...