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be more delinquency in these families (Department of Criminal Justice, 2008). Children are less likely to graduate from high schoo...

neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...

the 2010 Olympic Winter Games draws on the lyrics of the two versions of "O Canada" ("Olympic mottoes"). These lines are: "With gl...

both an arduous and complicated process by which change occurs at a slow pace - even slower when the special interest group is sup...

p.PG). Courts in the West have been struggling with the definition for quite awhile as they try to keep a balance for the right ...

In fifteen pages the health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are compared with an emphasis on Canada's private and public fundi...

protection, and both of the nations are on an even keel as it respects economic considerations. Mexico fares much worse in that de...

For example, she is intrigued when the ship passes islands that have herd of cattle grazing on them. The captain explained that lo...

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

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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...

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

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

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...

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...

States was developed to contend with the operational responsibilities of dealing with the punishment of crimes commissioned by adu...

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

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

of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...

fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...

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

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

effectiveness, although difficult to prove, seemed to be less than that of traditional options. Recidivism rates, the rate at whic...