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publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
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...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
and reformed" (An Overview of Juvenile Justice). Much of the juvenile justice system is comprised of drug-related offenses ...
This research paper pertains to 2 Supreme Court cases involved the provisions of the the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of ...
This 5 page paper provides an overview of a case where physicians were sued for assisting terminal patients with suicide and were ...
part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...
Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
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...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
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...
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...
As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...
are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...
an individual level rather than a collective level. Not only will children be dealt with one on one they will be dealt with by ca...
by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...
In five pages this research paper discusses criminal law and its current trends with the three major issues that have recently dev...