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    following: juvenile corrections and community-based treatment programs‚ including covering over community-based treatment‚ institutionalization‚ and aftercare programs. Corrections and Treatment Juveniles needs to learn from their crimes‚ so that is where the consequences comes into play for the juvenile’s criminal behavior. Juvenile can go through different consequences like community-based like probation and treatments programs that the judge has sent them to‚ for the juveniles to learn from

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    sexuality 4) Juvenile Delinquency- Participation in illegal behavior by a minor who falls under a statutory age limit. 5) Chronic Juvenile offenders- youths that have been arrested 4 or more times during their minority and perpetuate a stricking majority of serious criminal acts. Known as the "chronic 6 percent" is believed to engage in significant portion of all delinquent behavior‚ these youths do not age out of crime but continue their criminal behavior into adulthood. 6) Juvenile Justice System-

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    Juvenile Delinquents and Treatment Models Mark Roggeman Colorado Christian University Juvenile Delinquents and Treatment Models Among those who work in the juvenile justice system there is much discussion on how to effectively determine the appropriate consequences and or treatment for their actions. There are those who believe in punishment that includes incarceration and boot camp and there are those who believe in treatment programs with the goal of rehabilitation

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    Understanding and Responding to Girl’s Delinquency Jennifer Hester Columbia College PSYC 260 September 27‚ 2009 Abstract Few studies have examined which girls become delinquent or why; and little is known about how well girls respond to interventions that have been traditionally designed with boys in mind. According to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation‚ from 1991 to 2000‚ arrests of girls increased more‚ or decreased less‚ than those of boys for the same offenses. By

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    Juvenile Justice Chapter 5 Assignment Cristian Contreras Shaw and McKay’s developed their own theory in the 1920s; this was one of the first attempts to focus on the social conditions that lead to delinquency. They wanted to explain why juvenile crime rates were so high in areas of a city characterized by urban decay. Why was there increased delinquency in the zone in transition? There were three characteristics of interstitial areas identified by Shaw McKay: cultural heterogeneity‚ mobility‚ and

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    Juveniles entering in the criminal justice system can bring a number of serious problems with them. The problems include substance abuse‚ academic failure‚ emotional disturbances‚ physical health‚ family problems‚ and a history of physical or sexual abuse. However‚ the rehabilitation programs in the juvenile criminal justice system is not meeting the needs of the adolescent population and the problems that come with them. Effectively addressing these problems require the programs to be successful

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    All programs need to undergo an evaluation process. The evaluation of a program helps to determine whether the program is meeting the set goals and objectives. During the life time of a program‚ the program undergoes several changes and adjustments. It is through the program evaluation that the changes and adjustments are identified. The identification of the adjustments gives room for implementation of the necessary adjustments. Proper program evaluation will tell if the objectives are met in a

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    Juvenile Delinquency: A Tremendous Finality _____ A Research Paper Presented to Mrs. Elizabeth B. Villanueva St. Joseph College - Olongapo‚ Inc. Olongapo City _____ In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements in English IV ____ By: yeyehirano IV-love ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Experts say that if children can’t read by the end of the fifth grade‚ they lose self-confidence and self-esteem‚ making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. * Dirk Kempthorne The researcher

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    the impacts I’m going to be exploring is the likelihood of a child becoming delinquent in a single parent household. There has been countless research done on this issue suggesting that a single parent household is more likely/will espouse to delinquency. The daily telegraph highlights this issue with shocking statistics that “Children from broken homes ’nine times more likely to commit crimes than those from stable families’”. Work and pensions secretary Duncan smith said “the breakdown of marriage

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    | Juvenile Corrections | The History‚ Recidivism Rates‚ and What Works | | Gina Pardue | Corrections - SPEA J331Dr. Robert Ramsey | 12/12/2012 | | Definition of Juvenile Corrections Juvenile corrections encompasses the portions of the criminal justice system that deal with juvenile offenders. Many of these facilities and programs seem to mirror jails and prisons‚ but juvenile corrections are not meant for long term sentences. Sometimes sentences for juveniles are only several

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