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neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...

In fifteen pages this paper examines delinquency in terms of the relationship between family life and family structure and delinqu...

p.PG). Courts in the West have been struggling with the definition for quite awhile as they try to keep a balance for the right ...

In fifteen pages the health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are compared with an emphasis on Canada's private and public fundi...

both an arduous and complicated process by which change occurs at a slow pace - even slower when the special interest group is sup...

protection, and both of the nations are on an even keel as it respects economic considerations. Mexico fares much worse in that de...

the 2010 Olympic Winter Games draws on the lyrics of the two versions of "O Canada" ("Olympic mottoes"). These lines are: "With gl...

For example, she is intrigued when the ship passes islands that have herd of cattle grazing on them. The captain explained that lo...

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

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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...

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...

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...

effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

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...

be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...

amounted to youth prisons in the guise of "training" or "reform" schools, Massachusetts formulated the necessary policies for a sy...

use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...

In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...

punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...

and administrative changes have transformed the juvenile court from an initial rehabilitative social welfare agency into a scaled...

Juvenile justice models are considered in an overview consisting of seven pages in which the community corrections approach to juv...

also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...