for youths including the sentencing of juveniles as adults and the death penalty that is focused on such issues as punishment, justice, and accountability. This terminology reflects the view that juveniles must bear individual responsibility for their crimes, particularly serious crimes, as adults do. (Gennaro E. Vito; Julie C. Kunselman, 2012) The get tough movement recognized the shortcomings of the original doctrines of the child savers and the juvenile court philosophies. Child savers under
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relation with the child are collected through self reports. Understanding the family structure can have an important role in the intervention and prevention of deviant behavior in the child. More parental monitoring was associated with less delinquency in a single parent household. We examine family structure including two parent families, single mother families, single father families, and stepfamilies. This paper addresses the implications of different theories and findings designed to
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Grizcely Hernandez Period 1 AVID IIII 13 May 2016 Juvenile Offenders Youth violence is escalating in the United States. More juveniles crimes, are sentenced to juvenile court, and then sent right back to where they started The question is, are these juveniles being treated right, are they getting the proper attention? Should they be treated like adults? Or should teenagers, no matter what the crime may be, be treated as juveniles? Many social and cultural factors in a child's life may influence
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norms and values are violated, they result in social problems. They are problems because such deviation of norms and values are dysfunctional in the society. Some of the examples of social problems are drug addiction, terrorism, youth unrest, juvenile delinquency, corruption, offences against women, environmental degradation, etc. However, not all violations of social norms and values result in social problems. For example, when a person sports an unusual hairstyle it does not become a social problem
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Living in a small community one does not expect to see gang activity. You say to yourself not here, this is not a city with a large population nor is there easy access to guns, drugs, poverty, etc. some of the conditions to bring gang activity into the area. A youth gang is ‘”commonly known as a self-formed association of peers having the following characteristics: three or more members ,aged 12-24, a gang name and some sense of identity ,generally indicated by symbols such as clothing style, graffiti
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O was caught smoking in the school bathroom. During the investigation at school, the schools principal asked to see her purse and found incriminating evidence. That evidence was used against her in juvenile court to find her guilty of delinquency. Procedural History: T.L.O appealed the juvenile courts decision and the New Jersey Appellate Court affirmed that the evidence was legal and thus admissible. She appealed again, and the New Jersey Supreme Court reversed, saying the search was unreasonable
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In the article, “Democracy for the Few”, by Michael Parenti, there is a section regarding victimization of children and the practice of trying them in the court system as adults and placing them in adult jails. This is clearly punitive rather than reformative for the child and sets him up to be victimized and abused. This practice also occurred in America’s Colonial Era as mentioned in, The Reluctant Welfare State, by Bruce Jansson. By allowing this to ensue lawmakers and the judicial system are
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(1969). Causes of Delinquency. Berkeley: Univeristy of California. Kempf-Leonard, K., & Morris, N. (2012). Social Control Theory. Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology. Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services. (2016, 5 6). Review of the Roots of Youth Violence: Literature
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Checkpoint: Drug Use and Delinquency Response Christina Whitaker CJS/240 August 8, 2013 Kathy Holder In all honesty I feel that with adolescents they may try drugs just in order to experiment and to see what it’s like or they were most likely pressured into giving it a try by member of their peers. Drug use that’s among adolescents behavior will most likely start before the start of drugs and/or alcohol. According to the studies some professionals believe that adolescents who are basically
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