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and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

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

initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...

Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...

be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...

the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...

M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...

was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...

approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...

2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...

to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...

emergency and routine health-related issues must be made available to the juvenile, including dental, medical and behavioral by th...

of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...

parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...

(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...

is one of personal lifestyle choice, such as a choice to continue a family tradition of gang affiliation, for instance. The model ...

turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...

juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...

want to prostitute themselves because they become especially interested in sex, or they simply engage in criminal activity as a wa...

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...

to improve childrens readiness levels for school and to retain early childhood professionals in the area of early childhood educat...