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#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
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...
be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...
When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...
A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...
The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...
and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...
more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...
a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...
seeds and need punishment. Rather, criminal issues are complicated. In fact, in criminology, the classical school emerged around 1...
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...
that blockage of these goals can result in delinquency that indicates that deviant behavior is an illegitimate method for achievin...
would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...
In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...
done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...
does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...
out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
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...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...