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While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...
one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...
In eight pages this paper examines child behavior and juvenile delinquency with a consideration of parental roles and influences u...
In ten pages this paper examines the linkage between juvenile delinquency and illiteracy. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograp...
by which to vent their anger, which can translate into juvenile delinquency. It is important for the student to realize that aggr...
help diffuse the individuals aggressive behavior if the primary source of agitation stems from illiteracy. Because conduct ...
and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...
In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at juvenile delinquency. Modern trends and historical causes alike are examined. Paper...
This research paper pertains to the association between child abuse and juvenile delinquency. The paper also discusses the relati...
be more delinquency in these families (Department of Criminal Justice, 2008). Children are less likely to graduate from high schoo...
is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....
This essay reports an empirical research study that focused on the effect of neighborhoods on juvenile delinquency and recidivism....
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...
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...
be minors. One aspect of being a minor is the inability to enter a legally binding contract. For many, this represents a glaring l...
This paper consists of eleven pages and examines whether or not juvenile delinquency is effectively treated through juvenile wilde...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...
of girls during the same period rose 6% (Siegel and Welsh, 2005). Even more striking and troubling is the fact that arrests for se...
However, in some cases the desired goals would not be equally available to all social groups, in others there might be too...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...
(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...
This paper, first of all, discusses a recent murder case and then describes the juvenile delinquency theories that are relevant to...