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In nine pages political, social, and economic issues are considered in this discussion of juvenile offenders and capital punishmen...
Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...
experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...
be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...
has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...
This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...
This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...
amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
eighty percent rate that is currently representative of juvenile re-arrest in this country, only sixty percent find their way back...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
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...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
(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...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
is a great deal of difficulty resuming normal life. This is true for any convict, but it is especially difficult for the sex offen...
The concept of "house arrest" is an old one and in the past was accomplished by placing armed guards outside the residence of the...
under federal law" (Anderson, 2004). The California law allowing the medical use of...
(Kopel, 1995). Another article supports the notion that the majority of offenders in prison are not violent ("Crime," 1998). Ther...
United States, everyone has equal rights. That charming theory doesnt always play out in practice, however, and sex offenders tend...