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process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...

century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...

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

This book review is on a juvenile, Christian novel that features a funny, charismatic sixth grader. The write assumes the persona ...

This research paper describes the various approaches that have been tried in regard how best to handle juvenile justice and the wr...

This research paper presents discussions on the differences between male and female juvenile delinquents and how female delinquent...

This research paper pertains to the history of juvenile courts and describes how it has changed over the course of the twentieth c...

This paper discusses the five-stage model developed by the Vera Institute, which describes the process used to enter adolescents i...

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

and process evidence with the intent of catching the perpetrator. While not all sudden unexpected death is of a criminal nature, ...

Checking to make sure the light switch is turned off even though the light bulb is not illuminated, locking and unlocking doors se...

that the CIA covertly engineered a coup in Iran that overthrew a democratically elected president and instituted a dictatorial rul...

M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...

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...

with these companions (Haynie and Osgood, 2005). Their results indicate that the normative influence of peers on delinquent behavi...

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...

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...

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

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 ...

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

that blockage of these goals can result in delinquency that indicates that deviant behavior is an illegitimate method for achievin...

(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...

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...