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

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...

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...

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

youth homicides, with the highest of these rates being committed by males between the ages of 15 and 24 (Coupet, 2000; Carr, 1996)...

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

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

groups, prison reformers, and other activists" Restorative justice restores rather than punishes (Dzur, 2003)....

times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...

to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

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

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

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...