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In five pages this paper examines mentally retarded adolescence and the increases in juvenile crime which result. There is the in...

be held any more responsible for his or her actions than a 15 year-old. While certain differences in criminal treatment should pre...

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

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

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

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...

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...

disappear in the next few decades. A full exploration of the issues is thus critical to allowing us to turn around our juvenile j...

idea that juvenile offenders needed to be handled different from adult offenders; as the goal was to retrain the child toward more...

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

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

This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...

This paper discusses the question of trying youth in adult courts. The paper reports research reports and opinions on this topic. ...

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

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

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

This paper consists of six pages and considers the lack of success with reforming the prison system in a consideration of perpetua...

In twelve pages this paper assesses these two alternatives on the basis of recidivism and cost effectiveness with trends apparentl...

when they have only served probation rather than having been incarcerated. The study in England was also based on a population ma...

to the criminal justice system (SCP, 2003). The program addresses the roots of recidivism, which are drug addiction and lack of jo...

the criminal justice system, some designed to help inmates, others to keep track of them. This paper discusses a program called "E...

terms of their parole (Pew Center, 2010). Nobody knows exactly what kinds of prison programs would definitely reduce recidivism r...

In fifteen pages this research paper presents a literature review regarding programs for long term prison inmates and their famili...

and 1991, the number of Violent Crime Index arrests for murder increased by 85 percent, compared with 21 percent for those 18 or o...

In eight pages this paper examines 1990s' crime rate statistics in this consideration of Pennsylvania's juvenile crime system. Ei...

houses between the juvenile leaving the correctional system and reentering the community. Juvenile delinquency is just one ...

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

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

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