YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults
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Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...
In four pages this paper argues that children should not be legally punished as adults and confined to separate juvenile detention...
This paper examines the social issues of juvenile violence among minorities, and the legal ramifications of trying a child as an a...
by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...
our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...
In five pages this paper examines trying juveniles in adult courts in an assessment of the pros and cons of this practice with reh...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
to bother the moth any. She reflects on how she watches a particular moth and how he seems quite happy and content with his life....
examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...
meaning that is constantly up for interpretation within the psychiatric community. Clearly, the very concept of normal hinges upo...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
load of inmates weighing down the penal system. By contrast, a significant drawback is the pressure to place a convicted criminal...
states laws regarding identity theft can be quite different with penalties varying significantly (Perl, 2003). Whether or not the...
2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...
offender and his history at the time of his arrest. Protection of society. This goal of sentencing is to remove the offend...
(Kopel, 1995). Another article supports the notion that the majority of offenders in prison are not violent ("Crime," 1998). Ther...
Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or t...
the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...
the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...
2006, p. 551). The assignment calls for students to relate how the topic can be applied in their academic life. This perspective...
Each child is unique and develops at his own pace, an important realization adults must understand to keep from imposing undue pre...
the juveniles who are punished through the adult court (Urbina and White, 2009, p. 122). Ostensibly, the purpose of transferring y...
United States, everyone has equal rights. That charming theory doesnt always play out in practice, however, and sex offenders tend...
Criminal justice has benefitted tremendously from recent scientific and technological improvements. Crime scene investigators no ...
The law, as well intended as it is, can vary in regard to its application. The law is not always black and white in terms...