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all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

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...

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

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...

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...

who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...

mechanisms of attachment and supervision (2002). These things demonstrate a relationship between elements such as parental unempl...

labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...

duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...

Protective Agency, established in 1885 (Roberts and Brownell, 1999). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, tha...

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...

reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...

are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...

juvenile offender who targets adults and peers the approaches which seem to be having the most success are those which elicit comp...

Mahins treatment programs were highly effective at rehabilitating juvenile offenders when critical assessments were done thoroughl...

juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...

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...

compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...

As a consequence there has been a growing tendency within our criminal justice system to try juveniles who commit such atrocities ...

similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...

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...