... largely motivated by concerns for public safety and, with the intention of protecting communities, these policies included harsh long term sentencing requirements for a variety of offenses. Both adult and juvenile offenders were faced with the consequences of the major punitive shift of the U.S. criminal justice system during the eighties and into the nineties. Legal rhetoric and ... media outlets painted an image of the murderous, impulse driven juvenile, permeating fear throughout American society; juvenile arrests skyrocketed, more juveniles were transferred to adult court than ever ...

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... others through stereotypes and chauvinism. These issues can directly effect their family, as well as the society they live in as these children mature and become adolescents, then finally a new adult generation, and as the systems theory suggests, the members all influence each other in their acquired actions and behaviours over time in a relatively stable manner over time. Television isn't entirely ... ...

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