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    Juvenile Delinquent Gangs

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    Juvenile Delinquent Gangs As a kid I could remember walking to school every day. While on the way to school there was always a group of kids sanding outside of the school walking away. These kids dressed differently and they all whore the same type of clothes. It wasn’t until years later that I was told to stay away from them because they were gangsters. They were gangsters that caused problems to the community. These gangsters would go up to kids and try and jump them into their gang. For

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    Thousands of juveniles‚ which are people under 18‚ are locked away in detention centers each year due to crime. The juvenile justice system is more focused on the child than the actual crime he or she commits. Young people are not fully developed when it comes to their mental‚ emotional‚ and the physical state. Juveniles are sent to detention facilities due to the justice system wanting them to be separated from adults.The detention centers are to rehabilitate young people or restore them with normality

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    The juvenile justice system has been around since the late 19th century. Before this time if a juvenile committed a crime they would be tried in the same court system as an adult. Today‚ this would seem very strange or unfair to most people. But‚ before the end of the 19th century there were no court systems designed for juvenile offenders. When it came to prosecuting juveniles in the adult court system‚ it had to be determined whether or not a juvenile could be criminally responsible for their actions

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    Running head: JUVENILE OFFENDERS: RACE AND ETHNICITY Juvenile Offenders: Race and Ethnicity University of Phoenix Juvenile Offenders: Race and Ethnicity "Researchers have long observed differences in rates of serious juvenile and adult offending among ethnic and racial groups in the United States. These differences have prompted competing theoretical interpretations and public policy debates. However‚ conclusions about the racial differences in serious and violent juvenile offending

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    1) Describe the main features of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act‚ 2000. 2) Discuss the causes of Juvenile Delinquency. 3) Who is a child in need of care and protection? 4) State the procedure followed by Juvenile Justice Court. 5) State the orders that can be passed for delinquent children under this act.  6) What protections are given by the legislature and the judiciary to juvenile delinquents?  1) Describe the main features of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act‚ 2000

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    The legal concept of juvenile status is relatively new. The juvenile court system was established in the United States a little more than a century ago. The first court appearing was in Cook County‚ Illinois in 1899. Prior to that time‚ children and youth were seen as small adults and were tried and punished as adults. Until the late 19th century‚ the criminal courts tried youth and adults. The sixteenth century educational reform movement in England that had perceived youth to be different from

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    Criminal Justice

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    CRIMINAL JUSTICE Robert Reiff once said‚ the problems of crime always get reduced to “What can be done about criminals?” Nobody asks‚ what can be about victims?” (Shcmelleger‚ 1999) The consequences of crime vary from one individual to another. Crime can involve financial loss‚ property damage‚ physical injury‚ and death. Less obvious but sometimes more devastating are the psychological wounds‚ left in the wake of victimization‚ wounds that may never heal. In an attempt to prevent victimization

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    Justice

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    An experiment is a study in which the researcher manipulates the level of some independent variable and then measures the outcome. Experiments are powerful techniques for evaluating cause-and-effect relationships. Many researchers consider experiments the "gold standard" against which all other research designs should be judged. Experiments are conducted both in the laboratory and in real life situations. Types of Experimental Design There are two basic types of research design: True experiments

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    The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate both the welfare principals and punitive principals that are paramount to the youth justice system‚ firstly by looking at what is meant by welfare approaches and how they have been used in adapting the Children’s Hearing System that is used in Scotland today when dealing with young offenders. Then looking at punitive approaches‚ how they are also used in dealing with young offenders and how they appear to be re-emerging back into the system in the

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    a separate justice system should exist for juveniles and adults. While some juveniles have demonstrated the need for a separate justice system for juveniles‚ others have proven otherwise. There are separate justice systems for juvenile and adult offenders because of the belief that the mind of juveniles can be reformed unlike adult offenders. However‚ the juvenile justice system is similar to the adult justice system in many ways. In terms of the rights of the offenders‚ both juvenile and adult offenders

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