Throughout history the American juvenile justice system has changed focus in attempts to provide an efficient system. Additionally‚ these changes have influenced the concept of punishment by replacing it with different methods such as rehabilitation. According to the text‚ American Corrections by Todd R. Clear‚ George F. Cole‚ and Michael D. Reisig‚ the juvenile justice system is characterized by five time periods. The first time period is referred to as the Puritan Period. Between 1646 and 1824
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the Research Paper 2 Juvenile sex offenders are frequently treated in the same manner as their adult counterparts with regards to punishment and sex offender registering. “Nationally‚ juvenile sex offenders make up 20% of all individuals charged with sexual offenses (McGinnis‚ 2006).” Placing a sex offender label on a juvenile may unjustifiably put restrictions on his or her opportunities in adulthood so it is for this reason that cases involving juvenile sex offenders should be prosecuted
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minors in the right direction. Juvenile delinquency has always existed as a problem without a single‚ proper‚ and effective solution. Throughout history society has proposed countless forms of punishment to make an attempt at altering the behavior of these young people in a positive manner. Some judicial and legislation acts have left numerous amounts of juvenile’s suffering in prison‚ and some have been far too lenient. Either way‚ juvenile delinquency is threatening the safety and order
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Corrections Trend Evaluation Tony Lee Merriwether CJA/394 May 22‚ 2014 Ken Jones Corrections Trend Evaluation This paper is the writer’s evaluation based on research of past‚ present‚ and future correction trends in regard to the development and implementation of institutional and community based corrections. There is an urgent need to revamp the antiquated practice of the crime control methodology. The get tough on crime approach requires harsh sentencing laws that subject non-violent
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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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movements (e.g. epileptic and Parkinson patients) making it difficult to obtain a sufficient number of artifact-free trials. Such populations are in fact more likely to exhibit exaggerated movement. Cons of Artifact Correction Researchers have developed several artifact correction procedures (Berg & Scherg‚ 1991a‚ 1994; Gratton‚ Coles‚ & Donchin‚ 1983; Lins et al.‚ 1993b; Verleger‚ Gasser‚ & Moecks‚ 1982). The approach of subtracting voltages from ERP waveforms can be a problematic one. Specifically
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information was inconclusive on exactly how many juveniles have been waived into the adult system. Figure 2 shows that in 1998‚ the Department of Corrections provided some idea of how many juveniles were handled by the adult criminal justice system ("Alaska Juveniles Waived into the Adult System‚" 1998). Implementing the 2 types of juvenile waivers has proven inconclusive as to whether or not there has been a decrease in juvenile crime. Threatening a juvenile that they will be waived to adult status and
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focuses on the way in which error correction is done and the significance of errors in the Romanian context. In designing it‚ I did not use my knowledge on causes of errors as I was not interested to find out whether it can be established a correlation between students’ mother tongue‚ the target language and the production of errors. I oriented this study towards a narrower issue: the attitudes of teachers‚ students and native speakers of Romanian towards error correction. In order to do this‚ I used
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The case under discussion seeks to deal with Law and Morality. This subject area brings about much debate and various views on whether morality should be made a part of law or whether it should be separate. Law can be described as the body of rules which are recognized as binding among the people of a community or state‚ so that they will be imposed upon and enforced by those persons with appropriate sanctions. According to Austin’s positivism view‚ law is sovereign and needs not know relationship
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INTRODUCTION Mishkin (2012) defines macroeconomics as the study of economic activity and prices in the overall economy of a nation or a region. In macroeconomics economic theories are utilised to elucidate particular economic phenomena and the theory involves some economic models. Macroeconomics focuses on three data series which are the real GDP‚ unemployment rate and inflation rate. Focusing on GDP the gross domestic product it has emerged as the single most renowned economic indicator for government
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