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    Female juvenile delinquency: What went wrong with “Sugar and Spice and all things nice”? Ariana Kalaitzaki S2760178 Griffith University Abstract This review addresses major questions around female juvenile delinquency‚ around which much contemporary research is oriented. These involve which factors are contributing to female juvenile delinquency and what causes female juveniles to display criminal behaviour in the first place. Theories and risk factors will be identified. Although research

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    Assess sociological explanations of ethnic differences both in offending and in victimisation Intro: I will explore and evaluate the explanations that sociologists offer for the ethnic differences in offending and victimisation Define key words (crime‚ official stats‚ ethnicity) · What are you going to be exploring‚ re –write aim? · What theories will you need to do this? · Who supports the statement? And why? E.g. · Who critiques the statement? And why? E

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    Juvenile Delinquency is the participation of illegal behavior by a minor who falls under a statutory age limit. A delinquent is a minor who commits a crime or a status offense. A status offense is conduct that is illegal only because the child is under age i.e. smoking cigarettes (Senna 10‚ 20). The cases of Eric Smith‚ Lionel Tate‚ and an unidentified NJ child are similar only because‚ they are guilty of killing another child‚ but the Criminal Justice System treated and punished them very differently

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    are more aggressive than females. A meta-analytic review of gender comparisons deciphered that men are more aggressive than women‚ but the magnitude of the gender difference is relatively small (Helgeson 2017). According to research studies‚ males are 2.5 times more likely than females to be classified as highly aggressive (Helgeson 2017). Observational studies of children in grades four through twelve also validate gender differences in aggression. Male students are more likely than female students

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    Gender Differences On the Road Abstract Road rage is a form of aggressive behavior that effects everyone on the road ways. Reports on road rage and aggressive driving show that nearly everyone who drives may display or be affected by such behavior. Males however‚ the staple of territorial and aggressive behavior‚ do appear to be larger perpetrators of road rage than females. Studies comparing male and female levels of aggression and territorial behavior find that males are substantially more

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    Drug Use and Delinquency Response Adolescents may try drugs just to experiment or by feeling pressured into trying the drug by other family members or friends. Drug use among adolescences may lead to delinquency for the fact that an adolescents’ behavior most likely started before the start of drugs or alcohol. I will give a brief explanation on reasons for delinquency and drug use starting with reasons adolescents may start using drugs or alcohol and then describe how drug use may relate to delinquency

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    Outline and asses the feminist explanations of gender inequalities (40) Feminists believe that women are unequal to men‚ and the different groups think it is down to different reasons. Liberal feminists think it is because it is down to gender role socialisation. Marxist feminists believe it is down to capitalism. Radical feminists think women are not equal to men because of relationships within the home‚ and black feminist think they are unequal not just because they are women‚ but also because

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    practices and state of mind. According to Kimmel and Holler (2011‚ 189)‚ “Hidden curriculum” educational program can be characterized as our casually connections of students with instructors and learn practices‚ mentality at school. It creates gender differences between boys and girls begin with the formal educational program‚ for example‚ the courses and activities at school. Kimmel and Holler (2011) argue that the hidden educational program is depicted as "concealed" in light of the fact that it is

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    resident state. In the Juvenile Justice System‚ their age range is from 0 -7‚ 7 – 14‚ and 14 – 21 which it’s called the three 7’s‚ Juvenile has a separated system to determine whether they are to be prosecuted as an adult or a minor‚ depended on the delinquency they had committed. The Juvenile System that they go by is the status offenses and delinquent‚ because of those it also separates the conviction for any crime that the juvenile involved in‚ for example: in the status offenses‚ it discusses the ideal

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    Running Header: CAUSES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: UNIT 9 Final PROJECT Deborah Llamas Kaplan University Independent Study in Criminal Justice CJ483-01 Professor Val Mertens November 20‚ 2011 Introduction: Various forms of Trait Theories have been studied as being associated with Juvenile Delinquencies; “Developmental Theory is a view that criminality is a dynamic process‚ influenced by social experiences as well as individual characteristics. Developmental factors include biological

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