| Juvenile Justice | | | Paul Eyster | 4/3/2013 | Prof. Bidwell | Though crime, in general, is on the decline there are specific crimes and group offenders that are actually increasing. Specific crimes such as hate crimes, those crimes motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group, based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation, and juvenile crimes have become escalating debates. Lionel Tate, a 12-year-old boy at the time of his actions, is a suitable case
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Name: Ashleigh Seabrook Burglary is a typical juvenile crime. Describe this crime in detail, including 1) a definition of the crime; 2) trends in burglary; 3) where it is more common; 4) nature of stolen goods; and 5) ) fencing issues (5 pts) Burglary is the unlawful entering of a legally defined structure or building with the intent to commit a felony or theft. The reporting rate for this type of crime is around 50%. In 2016, 25,513 total juveniles were arrested for burglary. The National Crime
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Juvenile Justice Process and Corrections Journal Entry Today I got caught up once again. This life is tough, living in the projects, not having or even knowing my father, and my mom is always working. She has two jobs and I never really see her. I try to stay out of trouble, but for some reason always find my way back to it. My name is Xander, I’m only 17, and tonight I know I have disappointed my mom again. I have a long rap sheet already at this young age, everything from robberies to possession
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The attorneys that speak about Alonza suggested that he was charged harshly and should have been dealt differently. But because he was the first juvenile under a new law to commit a crime his case just dealt with any typical superpredator case. The system failed him because the system did not take the time out to fully understand what they were actually doing with Alonza Thomas. I could see if he was arrested multiple times and each arrest being worse than the next and that is when I could picture
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wrong! Juveniles (anyone under the age of eighteen) set over 98,000 fires each year. Over one million children are injured due to fire and three thousand die from fire-related deaths annually. It has been determined that twenty-five percent of children who die in a fire incident have started the fire themselves. The average property loss caused by juvenile arson setters is three billion dollars and there is also an economic loss of approximately eight billion dollars annually. Juveniles set fire
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of Lynching Reading Response In The Legacy of Lynching, Jeffrey Toobin examines the life of Bryan Stevenson, who is an African American civil rights lawyer. Throughout his career, Stevenson has worked hard to get prisoners ,who are convicted as juveniles, their life sentences reduced and their death penalties taken away. Most of these young people convicted and sentenced have been minorities, more specifically, African Americans. Throughout the article, Toobin shows and tells the multiple hardships
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Juvenile Delinquency Casey Cooper During the late 1980's and early 1990's, the nature of offenses committed by juveniles changed. Juvenile crime grew more serious and violent, the rate of offending by females increased disproportionately, youth began entering the juvenile justice system at younger ages, and gang involvement became more prevalent. Recommendations for improving the juvenile justice system must take these
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Drink up, or drink down? People 18 years and older are considered adults and should be treated as such by being allowed to legally purchase and consume alcohol. The United States is one of the few countries that maintains a relatively high minimum legal drinking age of 21. Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to 18? Well, in a way the drinking age should be lowered to 18, because we have persons that go into the armed forces at the age of 18. We also have the buying of tobacco products, by
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This semester must come to an end. This was one the most breathtaking courses that I have taking Kaplan University. I have had the chance to voluntary at Kent County Juvenile Community Service Department. I am going to share with you in this paper what I have learned about the program, describe how it is ran, tell the roles I played, and also give a piece of my mind on the experience that I encounter during my voluntary work. Explanation of the agency’s function After the passing
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like schools, church, vacation, by the baby sitter, their fathers, uncles, cousins, grandparents, complete strangers, someone who they have come in contact with several times, etc. Children who do not receive help are likely to grow up and become adult offenders’ and do the same things that the perpetrator did to them. It
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