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    Juvenile delinquency

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    Juvenile Delinquency Do we still have hope? Our future is in the hands of the young children who are growing up to be delinquents. Delinquency is when a juvenile has engaged in a criminal act and this problem has become a social norm for youth in the United States. Undisciplined children are those beyond parental control. Some of these children feel untouchable because their parents have no type of control over them. These are the type of children who are more likely

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    Juvenile delinquency Juvenile delinquency‚ also known as juvenile offending‚ or youth crime‚ is participation in illegal behavior by minors (juveniles) (individuals younger than the statutory age of majority).[1] Most legal systems prescribe specific procedures for dealing with juveniles‚ such as juvenile detention centers‚ and courts. A juvenile delinquent is a person who is typically under the age of 18 and commits an act that otherwise would have been charged as a crime if they were an adult

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    Juvenile Problems

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    Juvenile Problems Paula Barton Texas A&M Commerce Table of Content Abstract 3 Chapter 1: Introduction 4 Chapter 2: Issues Involved with Juvenile 5 The Media 5 Treatments 6 Sentencing 7 Death Penalty 8 Chapter 3: Juvenile Crime Gangs 9 Latin Kings 10 Mexican Mafia 10 Aryan Brotherhood 11 Bloods 12 Crips 13 Female Gangbanging

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    Juvenile Justice

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    Ivy Martinez Esguerra ERWC‚ Period 05 February 7‚ 2013 Juvenile Justice-Final Draft We See Them as Children‚ How About the Legal System? If minors do not share the same rights as adults‚ then the legal system should not treat them as so. When a crime is committed‚ fair punishment is what every criminal expects when walking into the court room. However‚ certain journalists have proven that when juveniles commit a crime they are charged as children to a certain extent and that the legal system

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    Juvenile Justice

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    ------------------------------------------------- Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 Republic Act No. 9344‚ also known as the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 (full text)‚ is an act establishing a comprehensive juvenile justice and welfare system‚ creating the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council under the Department of Justice. R.A. 9344 is a consolidation of Senate Bill No. 1402 and House Bill No. 5065‚ passed by the Senate and House of Representatives on 22 March 2006. It was

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    Juvenile Justice

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    crimes committed by juvenile delinquents in today’s society. These crimes consist of violent crimes‚ property crimes‚ forgery‚ fraud‚ vandalism as well as many others. In 2009‚ there were 32‚638‚900 youths in the United States and 1‚906‚600 of them were arrested for a type of crime. (Puzzanchera & Adams‚ 2012). There are many options that the Department of Juvenile Justice System can lead towards such as punishment or treatment‚ but the rehabilitation depends on the juvenile at hand. Most research

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    Juvenile Rights

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    JUVENILE RIGHTS 1 Juvenile Rights Kimberly Burrows CRJ 301 Farrell Binder April 11‚ 2011 JUVENILE RIGHTS 2 Juveniles have different rights at the time of arrest then adults have. There are also additional protections for juveniles that adults don’t have. In this paper I will compare and contrast the additional protections afforded to juveniles as compared to adult offenders‚ I will discuss a juveniles rights at the time of arrest‚ and my opinion on whether or not

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    Juvenile Corrections

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    Raheel Hanif Allan Skrocki Juvenile Justice‚ CJ 221 Juvenile Corrections: Probation‚ Community Treatment‚ and Institutionalization Until the early 1800s‚juvenile offenders‚as well as neglected and dependent children‚ were confined in adult prisons.The inhumane conditions in these institutions were among the factors that led social reformers to create a separate children’s court system in 1899. Early juvenile institutions were industrial schools modeled after adult prisons but designed

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    Juvenile Justice

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    The Juvenile Criminal Justice System and Adult court system have many simalities and differences. While the Juvenile Justice system is more concerned with rehabilitation of the Juvenile so he wont contine with more crime when he become an adult ‚ the adult court sytem is looking look to punish the adults with more harsh time‚ and consequences. They share similarlites such as procedural safeguards to protect their rights and also they both have the right to councel to help defend they self. Even though

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    Juvenile Crime

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    Juvenile Crime Introduction Every year‚ millions of juveniles are involved in criminal activities. According to statistics‚ as of 1999‚ the arrest rate for juvenile crime has dropped from its peak in the mid-1990 ’s. Statistics about juvenile crime have shown a steady increase of juvenile arrests from 1987 to 1994. Although overall crime rates have decreased since 1994‚ they are still above what they were in 1980. The following paragraphs and charts show the crime rates of specific crimes

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