Juvenile delinquency is an issue that is taken very seriously by the criminal justice system. ... The juvenile justice system operates under the philosophy of parens patriae. ... There are many landmark cases that have changed the juvenile justice system. ... The reason why they keep all the information of the juvenile a secret is because they want to help and protect the juvenile. If their information is released it could affect them for the rest of their lives. ...

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Juvenile Delinquency & the System Probation and Parole In The United States Table of Contents I. ... History of the Juvenile Justice System ." ..4-5 III. ... One, it can be referred to as the standard way meaning a justice system pertaining to juveniles and the other, a tad sarcastic, the so-called justice, applies to juveniles that might be seen as childish but juveniles in the sense that it is insufficient and silly. ... My paper will be discussing the history of the juvenile justice system and its process up to the parole and probation During the ...

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The same can be said for the juvenile waiver process in the juvenile court system. ... In most states the oldest a juvenile can be to stay within the juvenile system is seventeen years of age. ... Table information is as of the end of the 2009 legislative session.... All things considered, are such sanctions necessary given the ˜best interest of the child' parens patriae philosophy of the juvenile justice system?' ... Even experts within the juvenile justice system oppose the waiver "because it clashes with the rehabilitative ideal. ...

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Official data is data collected through the uniform crime reporting systems (U.C.R). ... Another error is a product of the court systems. ... These variations were due to variances in the operation of the information systems in the opposing administrations. ... There is not one definite information system that is to be consistent among all Canadian provinces or cities by law. ... Within the legal system different areas use different strategies for preventing crime. ...

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The government does not take crime lightly, that's why the prison system was introduced. ... Right on Crime covers the issues that the prison system is currently faced with. ... The Howard League for Penal Reform or HLPR is a national charity whose sole purpose is to lower the crime rate in the United States, they not only help those in need they give information about the prison system that most people are oblivious to. Howard League explains the development of the prison system through a large back ground of information on how exactly 'prison' was formed. ... This was the beg...

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In Japan in the seventeenth century the ruler had devised an police system in which each castle town had a military samurai warrior who served as town magistrate, judge, and chief of police. ... In the early 1700's the Russian tsars also established a police system to enforce their laws. ... Other early systems of policing consisted of citizens banding together for mutual protection. This system is best evidenced in early England. This beginning in communal policing eventually led to the development of the Metropolitan Police Act and a British police system that served as the model f...

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(Question 1) Juvenile delinquency is a complex social problem that significantly impacts all members and processes of a social structure. Delinquency refers to a set of behaviors that are not in line with the collective practices and/or ethics of the dominant social group. Essentially, these behaviors deviate from societal norms and more specifically they violate established criminal codes and laws. Juvenile delinquency incorporates not only general criminal activity but conduct that is only unlawful for youths such as running away from home and skipping school. Current research into th...

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My research questions are if the justice system is supposed to be equal for everybody who does it really protect and is the US criminal justice system operated to abuse and control African- Americans? ... Verdicts These cases enhance the idea of our justice system being corrupted. ... Evidence has shown that racial bias continues to spread through the justice sentence system. ... "Reducing racial disparity in the criminal justice system is critical in order to produce fairness and to uphold the ideals upon which the system is premised. ... Unless the justice system is perceived as fair an...

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She discusses the effects of poverty, race, political agendas and injustices of the American legal system on a death sentence verdict, while questioning societies moral justification of its actions. ... You will never see a rich person come before this Board, its not because the rich never commit terrible crimes, but because the expert legal council they can afford to hire, know how to "play the system"." ... Is it morally acceptable to have such a system of justice that so blatantly falls upon racial lines? ... In States with the death penalty politics play a larger part in the legal sy...

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Many problems arise when it comes to different factors within the juvenile justice system. ... Reformers have been making changes within the juvenile justice system in order to get the system working at its best. Despite reforms made to the juvenile justice system, changes are still needed. ... The fact that there is a mistreatment of juvenile within the juvenile justice system is not something new, nor can it be blamed on the system "slacking off". ... To be consistent with my research statistics and information, I am using the word "juvenile" in reference to those under the age of eigh...

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In the socialisation process, people are persuaded from childhood onwards of the naturalness and value of the capitalist system. ... The result is a society in which the basic values guiding action support the capitalist political and economic system. ...

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Cothern presents through an historical analysis of the death penalty and research on inmates the suitability of the death penalty for juveniles in comparison with the basis for which the juvenile justice system was originally established. The article presents the issues that the juvenile justice system was founded upon in order to hold juveniles accountable for their crimes, while supplying treatment and rehabilitative programs. The idea for this type of juvenile justice system stemmed from the increasingly harsh treatment juveniles received in 1899 in Chicago, Illinois. ... Cothern presents ...

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This exposure would provide the information that he would base his research on in the latter part of his career. ... With Darwin's information Lombroso began to apply the research of other scholars. ... With the information gathered from both subjects Lombroso began a study of his own. ... This research was based much information and on many factors, from epilepsy to the circumference of the brain. With this information he developed the theory of the born criminal. ...

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It is difficult to enforce laws created by the justice system on criminal's who have produced a peculiar idea of another social world with separate laws for them to follow. ... Officers express that it is tough to prosecute a criminal because, the judicial system has established a separate set of rules and "Whatever substantive justice, as defined by some standard, that is achieved in the criminal justice system is the product of sustained effort by men and women in the system who decide to make the system work toward a certain end. ... Wade addresses the issue of why an officer's fa...

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While most Americans believe that the justice system is comparable to CSI, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order, the real American justice system does not work in such a fashion. ... To be able to offer a plea bargain at any time in the trial process causes a lot of discrepancies within the criminal justice system. ... "He is simply the residual effect of the inevitability of bargaining within the system" [Hes02]. ... The most intriguing incentive for the prosecutor is that there is an increase in the total efficiency of the criminal justice system due to plea bargaining. Without plea b...

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One way to prevent crime is through the health-care system model. Anderson, Grandison, and Dyson (1996) stated that crime can be dealt with the same way as illness in the heath care system, which is to take action before it occurs. ... Furthermore, by providing public information on the negatives of marijuana consumption, we can educate youths before they become involved. ... Therefore, there should be no surprise that the heath care system approach to prevention of crime received many criticisms. ... Stepping away from the Health Care System perceptive, another effective method to preven...

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Twenty three years later, these policies have had significant effects on the criminal justice system, most of them negative. ... According to the Arizona Supreme Court, the initiative has resulted in a system that provides for " safer communities and more substance abusing probationers in recovery" (ASC 1999). ... It must be noted that even these reforms are handicapped to varying degrees by the continued involvement of the criminal justice system in treatment programs. ... A large number of people who abuse drugs come into contact with the criminal justice system when they are arrested and ...

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In this second trial unlike the first this information was not shown to the jury or the new defense attorney. ... The death penalty costs California $90 million annually beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system - $78 million of that total in incurred at the trial level (Sacramento Bee, March 18, 1988). ... Should the judicial system have the right to sentence someone to death, or should we let God be the one to play God? ...

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) periodically conducts Crime and Safety Surveys which provide information on both reported and unreported crimes as well as socioeconomic characteristics of the victims. ... A survey conducted by the ABS in 1996 collected information on women's safety from a random sample of 6,300 women across Australia aged 18 and over. ... Several limitations of crime victim surveys as a means of measuring the extent of sexual violence have been identified: • Information gained by these surveys is limited by the questions asked, and the composition of the...

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Due to the overwhelming caseloads processed through the court system, the needs of the offender for additional treatment (i.e., drug addiction, mental illness, alcohol abuse) find themselves incarcerated in an already overcrowded jail or prison with little or no treatment programs to address their issues. ... Taxpayers, correctional institutions, offenders, courts, victims, and policymakers will have an impact by moving towards a more rehabilitative system. However, by maintaining the status quo the American justice system might have a more negative impact if we do not find alternative solut...

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A society's legal system is based on this premise, and therefore a violation of acceptable conduct is a violation of the laws of that society. ... Information from the British National Survey suggested that rather than being larger than average, delinquents who commit serious crimes were in fact, smaller. ... As Eysenck and Gudjonsson (1989) stated: "What is inherited are certain peculiarities of the brain and nervous system that interact with certain environmental factors and thereby increase the likelihood that a person will act in a particular antisocial manner in a given situatio...

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The amount of information displayed by the media has turned into a necessary source of information in our daily life. ... People are fed with information directly and indirectly at every minute of every day (Stepinska, Agnieszka, 2014). ...

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They must have been directly or indirectly involved in a gang-motivated crime and be a reliable source of information attesting to gang affiliation. ... The damaged done to the victims of these crimes including pain, suffering and loss of life account for almost 2.5 billion a year. $302 million is spent on the justice system and personal costs and health care, which are about $221 million and third-party costs at almost $80 million. ...

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Longo's website on "Gang Information" of the Huron Valley Mens, "a gang is a group of people that form an allegiance to the exclusion of others, for a common purpose of engaging in violent, antisocial, or criminal behavior" (www.geocities.com/rainforest/4207/gangs.html). ...

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How media portrays crime and the effect it has on the public In our everyday life, we rely on many different forms of media for both information and entertainment; from news channels, to television, even the video games we play all fall into the category of media. ... Since in actuality the number of violent crimes is decreasing, the prison system thrives on the arrests of drug users and drug dealers. ... We have created a warped sense of reality of what crime and the justice system are like because of shows we watch like Cops or The First 48 (Dowler 2006). ...

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