Juvenile Justice Submitted to: Submitted by: Dr. Bala Raju Nikku Bidhya Joshi Bikina Chhetri Kadambari Memorial College Date: 21st November‚ 2010 Juvenile Justice: Juvenile justice is the area of criminal law applicable to persons not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts. In most states‚ juvenile justice law is applicable to those under 18 years old. Juvenile law is mainly governed by the juvenile justice codes of
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Juvenile Corrections & Treatment Your name CJS 240 October 24‚ 2010 The Juvenile corrections system has various methods to support the underlying goal of rehabilitation and reform. This system affects the entire community in its successes and failures; members of the society should take time to understand what efforts are being made to reform these young offenders and what obstacles must be eliminated to make it more effective. The following paper will attempt to summarize community
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Introduction Who are adolescent sex offenders? In its basic and most simple form adolescent sex offenders could be defined as any juvenile male or female‚ approximately between the ages of 12 and 17 years of age who commit any sexual act with another person‚ unlawfully against that persons will‚ regardless of age limit. Research has suggested that adolescent sexual offenders are also embedded in multiple systems (family‚ peer‚ school) in which dysfunctional transactions are rather evident. There
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Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis Zanetta Eave‚ Tasha Harris‚ and Lee Blackmon CJA/374 July 29‚ 2013 Cory Kelly Introduction The “Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis” paper will compare juvenile courts with adult courts. This paper will present an overview of the juvenile justice system‚ a point-by-point comparison between juvenile and adult courts. The adjudication process by which a juvenile is transferred to the adult court system. This paper will also discuss
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A juvenile court is a court of law responsible for the trial or legal supervision of children under the age of 18. In most cases‚ a juvenile case is handled much differently than an adult criminal case. Instead of going to a county court or a criminal district‚ juvenile cases are sent directly to a juvenile court. This court deals with issues ranging from drug dependency issues to truancy. Parents or guardians of the juvenile are required to appear and participate with the final settlement of the
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| Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness‚ Criminal Responsibility‚ and Sentencing Policy | Barry C. Field | | | | | CJ523-01N: Critical Issues in Juvenile Justice Page 1 The article Abolish the Juvenile Court: Youthfulness‚ Criminal Responsibility and Sentencing Policy by Barry Fields is power packed with his research‚ his opinions on the Juvenile Justice System. There is no question why he has reached the conclusions that he has because his research
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THE PROS AND CONS OF A SEPARATE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM Separate Juvenile Justice System DeVry University Professor C. Robins CRMJ300 Katja C. Bonds August 14‚ 2011 I. Introduction A. Juvenile 1. Age range for juveniles 2. Delinquent juvenile 3. Young offenders II. History overview of Juvenile Justice System A. Parent Interaction 1. The responsibilities of the parent 2. The responsibilities of the juvenile B. Police Interaction 1. Discretion
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paper would discuss the unique and general nature of an American street gang. It would discuss the motorcycle gang‚ Hell’s Angels and how they characterized the unique nature of an American gang. It would also consider the dangerous tendencies of juvenile delinquents in fueling the growth of the American street gang member population. Gangs never just developed as an accident. Society had inadvertently produced them in such a manner that the only approach to defeating it a social problem would be
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Ebony Dickens Causal Factors of Juvenile Delinquency: A Proposed Study Research Methods Grand Canyon University December 21‚ 2011Introduction Juvenile delinquency‚ despite falling overall rates of crime in the United States‚ remains a serious problem in this country. Around 2.5 million juveniles are arrested every year for various crimes in America‚ of which around 100‚000 are violent crimes; however‚ it is estimated that this issue may be much larger than arrests show‚ because only about half of
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JUVENILE DELIQUENCY IN IBADAN‚ NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION In the 1990s‚ juvenile delinquency has become a major global problem. The rising incidence of juvenile delinquency in many countries may be caused by certain socio-economic problems often associated with development. These includes; poverty‚ rapid population growth‚ unemployment‚ urbanization‚ industrialization‚ inadequate shelter and housing‚ youth unemployment‚ and under employment‚ breakdown of the family unit‚ inadequate
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