Juvenile Delinquency

Understanding the causes, consequences, and prevention strategies for juvenile delinquency is crucial for addressing this issue in society. Learn more about juvenile delinquency and how to combat it.

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Threat of Corporal Punishment And Juvenile Delinquency

Do you feel that juvenile delinquency can effectively be curbed by the threat of corporal punishment? Why or why not? In my opinion juvenile delinquency cannot be effectively curbed by the threat of corporal punishment. In most cases juvenile delinquency is propagated by violence. Most of delinquent youths come from violent families, families with strict […]

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Dealing With First-Time Offenders In The Juvenile System

Juvenile Justice System John Black presents the image of a typical vulnerable child in the United States.  He is prone to influence by members of the local gang due to his young age and also because he is most impressionable during this stage.  Moreover, he hails from a single family, and it is very likely

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Law: Reducing Juvenile Weapons Crimes – Youth Firearms Violence

Youth Firearms Violence Initiative Youths at their adolescent stages are always associated with delinquent behaviors and this has remained a serious problem in many cities in the US. However, although the problem is risky, it can be solved, (Hemenway, 2006). Youth violence remains a complex issue, which requires the intervention of the society before the

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Should Juveniles Be Sentenced To Life For Heinous Crimes?

In almost all states of the United States, thousands of juveniles have been sent to adult prisons without considering the fact that they are not mature enough to undergo similar court proceedings as adults. Furthermore, nearly four thousand children who commit heinous crimes nationwide have been sentenced to life imprisonment without any possibility of parole

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Recent Trends in Juvenile Delinquency

The late 1980s through to the early 1990s, United States of America experienced a serious rise in juvenile crime. This resulted to the introduction and enforcement of state laws that unlike the existing legislations that emphasized on rehabilitation, they were tougher and emphasized more on disciplining offenders. Since then, juvenile crime rates have been reported to

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Preventing Juvenile Crime Through Social Process Theories

The following are the five selected programs and initiatives supported by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program, Tribal Youth Programs and Services, Program of Research on the Cause and Correlates of Delinquency, Juvenile Drug Courts/Reclaiming Futures Program and finally, the Crimes against Children Research Center. The Program of Research

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Delinquency Among The Adolescents – Criminology Research Proposal

Abstract The research proposal wholesomely seeks to establish the major contributing factors to the onset of the evident delinquency among the adolescents rationally.This study gets based in the United States. This research aims at establishing the possible interventions that can adequately be employed by the criminal justice system in their attempts to assist the young

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