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living world. Through the centuries, this perpetual quest for upholding said rights has been met with great resistance from those...
adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...
souls of "the violent against themselves" (1194). To arrive at their destination, Dante and Virgil must travel across a "river of...
In six pages this research paper discusses juvenile status offender penalties and how probation could solve the problems associate...
Juveniles are responsible for an astounding percentage of the crime in this country. Even more disturbing is the degree of violen...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
publications. Statistics, however, are not the most important thing when we are considering how to treat the problem. A prerequi...
not career criminals. While the label does have a negative connotation, it is not the same as calling someone a murderer or a thie...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
gets into trouble in the future, however, they are subject to sentencing as an adult (Montagne, 2000). There are certain ...
In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...
2007).by the year of 1996 there were ten states that had juvenile boot camps (Schnurer; Lyons, 2007). The states were "Alabama, Ca...
social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...
is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...
(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...
penalty. It may be argued this is a nature or a nurture difference or may be explained by another factor however whatever the rea...
used (The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, 2007). In relationship to Oklahoma there was a bill which was passed, "writte...
this implies that if an individual has been convicted of murdering another human being, then the death of that person is justified...
A 12 page paper which discusses how and why the death penalty is obsolete and useless. Bibliography lists 10 sources....
all those "red blooded Americans" who have the "love it or leave it" mindset, it might be useful to point out that this list conta...
was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly establish [sic] federal law as determined by the Supreme Cour...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
death penalty to be Constitutional (White, 2006). It is interesting to note that many nations around the world, democratic...
foremost and absolutely critical to the success of any community cohesiveness; oftentimes just the presence of too many patrol off...
prior to its implementation. The crime must have been extremely egregious to warrant the ultimate penalty. An important point is...
history of Arkansas, the first Republican governor for some time, almost a hundred years, and he was a man who believed in many po...
justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...
car accidents). In light of how diverse murder can be deemed in the courts of law it seems important to note that the death penalt...
have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy ...