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    Juvenile Crime Statistics

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    relation to juveniles‚ location‚ and crime types. The statistical information developed and presented is used to help law enforcement agencies and individuals with interests in juvenile justice to develop programs to lower the types of crimes and help juveniles to refrain from committing crimes. The Juvenile Justice Bulletin of 2008 complied submitted information that reflected an “overall reduction of 2% in violent juvenile crime” (Puzzanchera‚ 2009‚ p. 1) and a “reduction of 3% in all juvenile crimes”

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    Juvenile Justice According to the article “Many Kids Called Unfit for Adult Trial‚” 200‚000 juveniles a year are being tried as adults in the United States. They are sentenced to life in prison and even the death penalty. But is that what is really best for them? Putting these teenagers in prison for life gives them no chance to change their lives around and learn from what they’ve done. I strongly believe that adolescents should not be sentences as adults but still deserve a huge punishment.

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    Juvenile Court Process

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    Juvenile Court Process Elisha Lambert CJS/220 5/23/12 Reginald Anthony Before juvenile courts existed‚ children’s parent would determine their punishment. The odds of a child going through the court system were slim. Today when law enforcement arrests a juvenile the officer decides were the juvenile will go based the crime. Juvenile court has partial jurisdiction which means that they can only hear certain cases (Meyer & Grant‚ 2003). Normally

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    The Impact of Juvenile Inmates’ Perceptions and Facility Characteristics on Victimization in Juvenile Correctional Facilities is written by Aaron Kupchik and R. Bradley Snyder. The significance of the problem the article focuses on is evidence of a third theoretic model in addition to the deprivation and importation theoretic models. The third model combines facility and individual variables that concentrate on the perception of the youth toward the facility’s rules and standards. The deprivation

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    Old Girls Tried As Adults

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    old girls accused of plotting and attempting to kill a classmate in order to please a fictional character will be tried as adults. This decision came about because of the seriousness of the crime and because the court felt that if‚ convicted and sentenced in the juvenile courts that the girls would not receive long-term mental health treatment. However‚ does prosecuting them as adults really allow for their mental health needs to be addressed or is it rather a way to appease the public with a “get

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    In Tennessee‚ a juvenile can be transferred from juvenile court to adult court after a petition is filed alleging delinquency based on conduct that is a crime under Tennessee law‚ local ordinances‚ or the Court. A hearing is held to determine if the child is sixteen years of age at the time of the alleged crime or if the child is less than sixteen years old. If the child is less than sixteen years old‚ then for the transfer hearing to move forward the child has to be charged with a serious offense

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    Juvenile Justice System

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    The juvenile justice system and parents across America struggle on a day-to-day basis with their children and substance abuse. It is stated that four out of every five children arrested within the system are under the influence of a substance (alcohol or drugs) when committing the crimes that forced them to be detained and arrested (Alcoholism.about.com‚ 2010). It is reported within the textbook that seventy-three percent of high school seniors had used alcohol within the past year‚ which makes

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    person turns eighteen he or she is considered an adult. The individual is able to move out their parent house‚ buy cigarettes and even join the army‚ but what cannot happen is for him or her to buy alcohol. Buying alcohol and drinking alcohol has been a huge controversy for many years among adults and young adults. Drinking has always had its problems with adults such as the health effects as well the mental capability‚ but when it comes to young adults and teenagers the thought of drinking brings up

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    Juvenile Boot Camps

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    The issue that I plan to take on in this research proposal is rehabilitation for minors. I mainly want to focus on minors 16 years of age or younger. The question I wish to answer more specifically is‚ does boot camp benefit or harm a troubled minor? I also wish to learn the short and long term affects of these camps‚ do they just create a short term solution‚ or do they in fact shape minors into law abiding citizens that can contribute to society? I plan on answering these questions using past and

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    Juveniles The United States take juvenile offenders very seriously because these juvenile offenders can become even worse offenders when they are adults. Not letting a juvenile get away with a warning or minor charge from what they should of got‚ helps teenagers understand that there are consciousness for their actions. If other teenagers observe and are aware that the Criminal Justice field is not going to take petty on them it will stir them away from trouble. It is better to teach someone right

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