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    Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis The United States Court system is much the same for Juvenile Court‚ as it is for Adult Court. The main differences are that Adult court adjudicates offenders over the age of 18. Juvenile court adjudicates minors‚ or persons under the age of 18. However‚ certain circumstances like the severity of crime‚ and age of individual‚ and number of occurrences can present a case‚ which

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    Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis Juvenile and Adult Courts:  A Comparative Analysis: Introduction The United States government is based on a checks and balances type system. The three main parts of this system are the executive branch‚ the legislative branch‚ and the judicial branch. This judicial system’s job is to uphold the law of the land. Law can be defined as a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate‚ proscribe or permit specified relationships among people

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    factors contribute to rising rates of juvenile crimes? Con One of the reason is most juvenile crimes are rising in such a growing is most of the juveniles have no structure in the home. So they struggle in the homes where there are no father figure in the child life. The father never comes around so most of the young adults look for the street to be there guide in life how to become men/women. Most of the times these juveniles are looking at other people older adults is selling drugs seeing the fast

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    Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis Paper Tami Hiltunen CJS/245 January 26‚ 2015 LEDETRA JONES Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis Paper The Juvenile Justice System is part of the criminal law system that focuses on those individuals who are between the ages of 9 and 18. This system was set up for those persons who did criminal acts‚ but who are not yet considered adults. In most states the age for criminal culpability is 18. While the age of being treated as a juvenile

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    Crime in the United States is a fascinating phenomenon. It has changed throughout time and history. It evolved and progressed. There are visible waves in crime rates in the American history; this is often caused by changes in the economy‚ political situation as well as unemployment rate. Crime rates can also depend on the demographics of the area being studied. These are the several variables which can alter the outcome of crime rate measurement. The crime statistics in the United States‚ as well

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    Who is to be blamed for Juvenile Delinquency? suggests juvenile delinquency refers to crimes committed by children and youth. There is an ongoing discussion as to who should be held responsible for such crimes in scholarly publications ‚ case law and the media (Brank et al‚ 2006; Brown et al‚ 2009). The responsibility for juvenile delinquency is usually associated with the delinquent (Economist‚ 1993)‚ parents (Brank et al‚ 2006)‚ the educational institutions  (Brown et al‚ 2009) as well as the society

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    53‚500 juveniles were arrested for committing violent crimes. However‚ many of these crimes go unpunished under the Juvenile Justice Act‚ “on the theory that long sentences are unlikely to help rehabilitate young offenders‚ the new act specifies relatively short terms for offences”(Dolphin). While violent crimes are being committed‚ the juvenile offenders go on‚ hardly punished at all. These juveniles need to be taught that they are responsible for the actions that they commit. The Juvenile Justice

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    Factors of Juvenile Delinquency: A Proposed Study Research Methods Grand Canyon University December 21‚ 2011Introduction Juvenile delinquency‚ despite falling overall rates of crime in the United States‚ remains a serious problem in this country. Around 2.5 million juveniles are arrested every year for various crimes in America‚ of which around 100‚000 are violent crimes; however‚ it is estimated that this issue may be much larger than arrests show‚ because only about half of all crimes involving

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    Juvenile Crime and Parenting Education “Will Teaching Parents how to Parent decrease Juvenile Crime” What is the Best Evidence Based Program that can be Implemented and Successful In Reducing Juvenile Crime By Vanessa Figueiras Capella University Dr. Linda Samuels Table of Contents I. Abstract II. Problem Statement III. Introduction IV. Conclusion V. Annotated Bibliography A. Juvenile Crimes and statistics B. Support for parental education & importance of parents

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    Based on the information presented‚ poor Warfield can easily be charged by the authority for Conspiracy to commit a crime‚ cruelty to children‚ kidnapping‚ and attempted to robbery. Although Warfield did not commit the crimes with his associates‚ he was still with the men that committing the crimes. For example‚ Warfield made his choice and ride along with his associates that was intended to commit robbery and he fled the house after the authority enter the premises. Warfield knew the situation and continue

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