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Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

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

Correctional Programs/Juveniles

decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...

Probation and the Role of Officers

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

Rehabilitation in Juvenile Justice

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

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

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

Young Women as the Perpetrators of Crime

Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Death Penalty for Juveniles

has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...

Trying Juveniles

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

Strengthening the Juvenile Criminal Justice System

cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...

The Juvenile Justice System, Pro and Con

of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...

Parens Patriae is Sometimes Necessary

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

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Juvenile Justice Programs, A Success to Build Upon

is one of personal lifestyle choice, such as a choice to continue a family tradition of gang affiliation, for instance. The model ...

Juveniles and the Death Penalty

turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...

Juvenile Crime and the Court System

juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...

Juvenile Justice, Due Process, and Social Control

Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...

BILL OF RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND SECURITY

in his or her favor (Sixth Amendment, 2012). Finally we have the Fourteenth Amendment. Though not part of the original Bill of Rig...

Overview of the Juvenile Justice System

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...

California Foster Care Agencies and the Criminal Justice System

for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...

Rectifying Overcrowded Prisons and Recidivism

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

JUVENILE JUSTICE PROCESS

further into the system (Juvenile Justice System, 2012). Sometimes, juveniles can enter the system through a child welfare agency ...

Annotated Bibliography - Youths Tried as Adults

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

Sharon Hambrick, Arby Jenkins

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

Chapter 9, Forensics Handbook, An Analysis

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

Juvenile Justice and Individual Prevention

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

Its Past, Police Discretion and Juvenile Justice

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

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...

California Drug Statistics

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

Should Minors be Tried as Adults?

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