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Child Abuse Victims and Whether or Not They Become Abusers in Adulthood

In fifteen pages this research paper considers the causes, definitions, and incidences of child abuse and includes theories, stati...

Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency

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

Treatment and Rehabilitation of Female Offenders

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

Drug Offenders and Modern Day Prisons

incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...

Juvenile Crime and the Death Penalty

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

Nonviolent Drug Offenders and Incarceration

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

Arguing in Support of Violent Juvenile Offender Sentencing as Adults

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

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...

Arguing in Favor of Adult Sentences for Certain Juvenile Offenders

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

Juvenile Offenders and Adult Prosecution

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

Australia and Indigenous Female Convicts

16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...

Offender Population and Behavioral Motivation

In five pages the offender population in terms of a lack of motivation is discussed with the argument presented that self worth an...

Juvenile Justice and Morality

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

History of Vocational Youth Organizations

In nine pages this paper examines vocational youth organizations from an historical perspective with criminal offender retraining ...

Fully Restorative Programs

An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

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

Criminally-Minded Mothers

be better. This is a condition for young women in many situations, and thus also applies to women who ultimately commit crimes who...

Juvenile Offenders and Capital Punishment

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

The War on Drugs in Arizona

per year, while public safety is not enhanced ("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the ...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

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

Jury Trials and Juveniles

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...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

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...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

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

Drug Offenders and Treatment Alternatives

conclusion as to what is the best way of going about treating drug addicted offenders. The important question is: What is the bes...

Philadelphia, Legal Issues in the Film

and complicated issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in any notable fashion" prior to this movie (Tepper, 1995). Fi...

Have International Human Rights Really Changed Over the Last Sixty Years?

is a law that is more basic that that which is made by man, supports of this such as Aristotle and the stoics such as Cicero and S...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

Issues in Australian Law

The second basis of the appeal was that evidence of an alibi had been excluded by the initial trial judge under s.150 of the Crimi...

Juvenile Offenders Should Not Always Be Tried As Adults

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

Juvenile And Adult Court: Comparison

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...