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is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...

The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...

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...

In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...

2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...

he saw his little sister having sex, he might have been angry enough to throw something. However, whether or not he is guilty of t...

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...

While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...

effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...

also by engaging in certain activities or behavior patterns (1999). Also, gangs are universally loyal to their neighborhood, and ...

contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...

In ten pages this research proposal assesses the recidivism impacts and success rates of juvenile delinquency programs versus juve...

This thirty page paper presents an overview of the Explorers Program, a program that allows juveniles to accompany police officers...

In eight pages this paper examines how to address the problem of juvenile delinquency and how to productively reintroduce offender...

This paper consists of eleven pages and examines whether or not juvenile delinquency is effectively treated through juvenile wilde...

use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...

In ten pages this paper discusses juvenile delinquency in a consideration of the roles played by family, school, and the church wi...