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In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...

fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...

Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the trying of juvenile offenders in adult courts. Insights are derived from an anno...

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...

our complex world. Lets look at a few of them. Gang membership: Teams at several universities collaborated in studies of the Caus...

In five pages this paper examines trying juveniles in adult courts in an assessment of the pros and cons of this practice with reh...

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...

This paper examines the social issues of juvenile violence among minorities, and the legal ramifications of trying a child as an a...

by the managers and administrators when a juvenile is reminded to an adult facility. Conclusion: Provides a summary of the points...

In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...

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

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

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...

Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...

parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...

#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

of rehabilitation seems to have disappeared. Anyone who is aware of the new high-tech supermax prisons and the inhumane condition...

a serious drug and mental health problems when they were incarcerated. These juveniles have serious problems with hallucinogens, ...

and one flowchart. The logo, shown in Figure 1, is quite striking and pointedly appropriate for juvenile justice. It provides of...

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...