Juvenile Incarceration Victoria McMillian Troy University Introduction to Social Science Inquiry CJ3375DL T4 T. Newvine TABLE OF CONTENT I. GOAL STATEMENT‚ VARIABLES‚ QUESTIONS P.3 II. HYPOTHESES/THEORIES P.4-5 III. SAMPLING PROCEDURE P.6 IV. COVER LETTER
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Juvenile Delinquent Renee Washington American Intercontinental University Abstract This report is in regards to our young people today that need to be helped to a point that they have meaning in their lives. There are ways that can be presented to insure that young offenders can work through the pain‚ and rage surrounding their emotions which causes negative behavior. Healing programs have been a recommendation thru the court systems to analyze juvenile delinquency‚ and find the factors
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In recent discussion of Juvenile Justice‚ a controversial issue has been whether juveniles should be tried as adults in adult courts for heinous crimes they have committed. On one hand‚ some argue that they should not be tried as adults and do not deserve harsh sentences but as children seeking help. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that those who commit such heinous crimes ought to be punished no matter the age. The juvenile court was created to handle juvenile offenders on the basis of
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Lee Weng Khin (13) 4O3 Juveniles are mainly responsible for their own crimes. Do you agree? A juvenile delinquent is a person under the age of 18 and commits an act that otherwise would have been charged as a crime if he was an adult. In most cases‚ many juvenile offenders often fall into bad company or they lack proper parental guidance. Furthermore‚ juvenile offenders are still young; they have not reach a level of maturity where they are able to exercise good decision-making. Therefore‚ I disagree
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Juvenile Delinquency; Causes and Possible Solutions 06/12/2011 By definition a juvenile delinquent is a young person‚ under the age of 18‚ who fails to do what is required by law. Our juvenile court system has the difficult task of finding the proper way to deal with these individuals. Unfortunately there is no perfect solution. Should juvenile delinquents be treated harshly? Should they be treated as an adult? Should they be put into a rehabilitation facility? There have been several
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Are substance use and delinquency among juvenile correlatively related? In the article “Substance Use and Delinquent Behavior Among Serious Adolescent Offenders” by Edward P. Mulvey‚ Carol A. Schubert‚ and Laurie Chassin‚ substance use and delinquency are strongly linked together. Studies of youth in juvenile court demonstrate that a majority of court-involved adolescents have recently used illegal substances that are more serious‚ and frequent adolescent offenders have used more substances
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society‚ media portrays tough love as a negative factor that should not be applied to children. Coming from a family with a tough love approach‚ I would have to disagree with the majority. Tough love opens up a whole new way of raising a child especially when it comes to them growing up in the long run. Many people would look down upon “tough love” considering they want to see their child content and corporal punishment would of course upset them. The road to taking a tough love approach may be rough
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In America‚ the rise in violent crimes over the years can be attributed to Juvenile Gangs. In a March‚ 1996 study‚ DR .James Alan Fox‚ Dean of the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University reported that from 1985 to 1994‚ the rate of murder committed by teens‚ ages 14-17 increased 172 percent. So why do teenagers join gangs and become involved in risky behavior that can ultimately lead to incarceration‚ great bodily harm‚ or even death? What can they possibly gain from such a risky endeavor
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the federal government expunging juvenile records is to allow youth who has made bad decisions‚ and found guilty of their youthful transgressions to enter adulthood without the heavy stigmatic freight of a criminal record (Funk & Polsby‚ 1997). The fundamental philosophy for juvenile laws is that a juvenile delinquent should be considered and treated not as a criminal‚ but as a person requiring care‚ education and protection. Furthermore‚ in their eyes‚ juveniles are not thought of as bad people
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What happen in the video in Tough Guise 2 is that it was discussing about how young boys‚ young men‚ and older men are using their masculinity to portray violence like fighting and using guns. The narrator in the video Jackson Katz talks about how he has been studying and researching the causes of violence in American culture for more than 25 years and how cultural ideas about manhood contribute to interpersonal and relationship violence and shape U.S. political culture. Additionally‚ the narrator
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