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Self-efficacy is a concept that refers to the degree to which individuals perceive themselves as having the ability and capability...
This research paper pertains to an evaluation plan for an HIV prevention program that is targeted at African Americans. Three page...
This research paper describes the targeted learner population, which is African American men and women between the ages of 18 and ...
This research paper presents an overview of adolescent suicide. Gender and causal factors, warning signs and symptoms and preventi...
The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...
the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...
5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...
Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...
a result, non-profit and private organizations have tried to step forward to provide diversion programs, or alternates, to incarce...
a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...
This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...
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...
2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...
not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...
effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...
accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...
and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...
punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...
In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...
be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...
This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...
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...
by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...
This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...
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...