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part of the American judicial system that juvenile offenders could be transferred to adult court under a waiver system; however, b...
decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...
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...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
Juvenile crime is a very real problem in this country and, in fact, the world over. Although they are typically...
The death penalty has consequently been in and...
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...
Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...
cruelty, and shoplifting. These programs are utilized to give youth another chance instead of throwing them in juvenile detention ...
of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...
parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
is one of personal lifestyle choice, such as a choice to continue a family tradition of gang affiliation, for instance. The model ...
turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...
juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...
Juveniles present an interesting consideration in criminal justice. Police officers are in a position to make a very real differe...
in his or her favor (Sixth Amendment, 2012). Finally we have the Fourteenth Amendment. Though not part of the original Bill of Rig...
this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...
for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...
Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...
further into the system (Juvenile Justice System, 2012). Sometimes, juveniles can enter the system through a child welfare agency ...
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 paper discusses the five-stage model developed by the Vera Institute, which describes the process used to enter adolescents i...
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 pertains to the history of juvenile courts and describes how it has changed over the course of the twentieth c...
#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...
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...