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(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...
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...
juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...
members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...
issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...
houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...
times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...
to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...
groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....
for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...
Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...
labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...
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Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...
security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...
not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...
is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...
things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often con...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
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...
sociological or environmental forces. His statement that biology constitutes the only important factor in causing criminality set ...
youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...
There she has begun a program that brings together police officers and offenders through the use of a four-legged friend: the poli...
a 17- and 18-year-old can turn a gun on a student population and that an 11-year-old can kill a three-year-old child. Nor is it li...
relates to ones personal development, which has been suspected of influencing the rising violent tendency of juveniles. II. TELEV...
by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...