Divorce and Juvenile Delinquency
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A 15 page paper. The rates of both divorce and juvenile delinquency have increased dramatically over the last three decades. Many researchers have shown there is a direct link between adolescent maladaptive behaviors, such as delinquency, and parental divorce. This hypothetical study looks at a different question: were the maladaptive behaviors in evidence prior to the divorce or did they occur after the divorce. This is a hypothetical six-year longitudinal study. Sections include: abstract, introduction, research question and hypotheses, literature review, results and conclusion. 2 tables are included. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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DO NOT Charge Juvenile Offenders as Adults
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DO NOT Charge Juvenile Offenders as Adults. Probably since the times that the Romans conquered Gaul, teenagers have been making immature decisions; we might even say it is a behavior pattern of the age. Charging them for their offences in an adult court, sends out the wrong message, and does not treat the core problem of inappropriate neighborhood, poorly funded public schools, and corrections racial profiling. In a creative country such as ours, we must put our resources into alternative programs and counseling for troubled youth, rather than directing them through the adult criminal court process. Bibliography lists 3 sources. BBjvadng.rtf
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Education Of Minority Students In A California Juvenile Hall: Social Justice Issue
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5 pages in length. One of the primary methods by which juvenile delinquents within the California penal system are rehabilitated and ultimately reintroduced into society is through the means of education. While this approach is both prudent and successful in its ability to redirect wayward youth, there is often a segment of this population that does not reap the same beneficial outcome as the rest. Minorities within California's juvenile penal system are frequently left behind where educational programs are concerned, inasmuch as their ability to learn and communicate is far less developed than that of their white counterparts. However, because of the over-representation of minorities in the California juvenile justice system, this issue reflects how the entire educational program may be wholly ineffective to prepare minority youths for life outside juvenile hall. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Ethical Dilemmas In Juvenile Detention Facilities
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A 15 page paper that considers 10 different ethical dilemmas that can occur within the environment of a juvenile detention facility and considers the possible outcomes for these dilemmas. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Evaluating the Concept of Delinquency
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A 4 page paper which examines whether or not status offenders and juvenile delinquents should be treated alike by the justice system, considers the reasons behind why males exhibit more delinquent behavior than females, and assesses if there should be mandatory incarceration for chronic juvenile offenders. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Factors Influencing Juvenile Delinquency
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A 6 page discussion of the myriad of factors which influence juvenile delinquency. Specifically addresses family structure and factors such as maternal separation and parental rejection, noting that while such factors have been demonstrated to be important determinants his correlation is far from perfect. While one might jump to the conclusion that juvenile delinquency might be directly accounted for by the irresponsible actions of a parent or specific family structure, there has been one incident after another when parents took every possible means of insuring societally appropriate behavior in their children and juvenile delinquency still occurs. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Family Factors And Delinquency
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A 15 page paper that addresses the correlation between family structure and family life and delinquency. Over the last three decades, the family structure has changed dramatically. Over this same period of time, the rate of delinquency has increased significantly. The writer looks at possible connections between these two trends, in general, and at family structure and family management practices as related to delinquency, in particular. Data are included. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Discussion in Relation to the Criminal Justice System
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This is a 7 page paper discussing fetal alcohol syndrome, its incidence, cost to society and relation in the criminal justice system. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE), Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ARND), Alcohol-Related Birth Defects (ARBD) and alcohol-exposed Static Encephalopathy (SE) are all terms for the defect which occurs to a child when his or her mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy. It is estimated that 1 in every 10 children born have some form of this disorder which can result in mild learning disabilities to major mental, physical and developmental disorders. Children with an alcohol related disorder may or may not have physical defects and because of this most go undetected at birth. Youths with FAS exhibit impulsive and anti-social behavior, lower IQs, attention deficit, emotional instability, impairment in judgment and little awareness or consequences of their behavior among many other factors; all of which can lead them into criminal behavior. As a result, over 55% of youths and adults with FAS have spent time in a criminal facility; a fact which many critics within the legal system state may go against some of the fundamental principles of the legal system in which people must understand the rules in society and understand that the rules must be obeyed. From another legal aspect, legal critics also argue that pregnant women who drink could be considered as committing child abuse; an argument which has led some states to impose involuntary treatment and confinement of drinking women during the course of a pregnancy in order to protect the unborn child. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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