YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Youth and the Societal Roles of Juvenile Halls and Prisons
Essays 121 - 150
In five pages this paper examines how time and culture have defined the social roles of male and female and formed expectations of...
In five pages this research paper examines the societal role played by African Americans with the emphasis being on males with ste...
sometimes through undercover work. An officer may pose as an ordinary citizen or mark, or he may pose as a drug dealer or drug use...
Ron Wiebe (2000) flatly states that the major security problem that prisons face is "contraband control and the management of drug...
provides a healthy venue for socializing. Rather than meet clients in a bar, for example, they can chat on the golf course. Young ...
10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...
recent national-level data reveal that gang members account for a very small proportion of any individual prison system" (Trulson,...
are not always paragons of virtue; they may use methods of unfair intimidation against certain inmates while allowing the actions ...
While the region was relatively rural and it ultimately existed on the outskirts of the county, with many dirt roads and limited a...
he were tidying up and cleaning his cell, it is unlikely that he would strew items about. Rather, it is quite likely that he woul...
system is the easier it is to accomplish that goal. In some way, prison is a deterrent in and of itself, but that is debatable. If...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...
males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...
to "active" and "aggressive" pursuits. This is not the model we find in Beauty and the beast. In the fairy tale itself (this expl...
is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...
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...
each town adopted their own ways of dealing with criminals (Meskell, 1999). Punishment was swift, nearly as soon as the crime had ...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
of homosexual behaviour in male prisons is not something which necessarily reflects the sexual orientation of the participants in ...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
he saw his little sister having sex, he might have been angry enough to throw something. However, whether or not he is guilty of t...
our new culture with such new pursuits as video games, new styles of music, and even new forms of art that play a negative role in...
2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...
In ten pages this research proposal assesses the recidivism impacts and success rates of juvenile delinquency programs versus juve...
This thirty page paper presents an overview of the Explorers Program, a program that allows juveniles to accompany police officers...
be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...