... detention center when thy are 21 years old. May 21, 1998 in Springfield Oregon Kipland Kinkel, armed with three guns opens fire in a high school cafeteria and kills two students and wounds 19 others. His parents where found later dead at their house, he pleads guilty to four counts ... the 1999 Annual Report on school Safety. Which was created through the department of education and the justice department. Among some numbers of the report are that the overall school crime rates declined between 93 and 97 from 155 school related crimes per 1000 students ages 12-18 to around 102 crimes in 9...

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... there are larger numbers of cases with juvenile justice such as shooting in suburban middle / high class areas. "Because racial bias continues to permeate all aspects of the judicial process, it is critical that states continue to be push to address this serious problem." (Children Defense Fund, Pg. 103). The stereotypes for juvenile delinquents are mostly recognized as being males. But studies show that ... they have arrested females at the ages of 17 and under, which have increased over 30% ... between 1990 and 1999. These females who are in the juvenile justice are kept separately f...

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... and forty teachers are physically attacked, and nine hundred teachers are threatened (Horowitz A1). In 1995 alone, firearms accounted for 29 percent of the deaths of teens between the ages of fifteen and nineteen (Hart Research). Some of the warning signs of school violence are the following. Lack of interest in school Absence of age-appropriate anger control skills Seeing self as always ... themselves. These killers were fascinated with weapons and violence, and even modified a violent computer game into looking like a layout of Columbine High School (Leo 14). These killers' were victi...

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... to comply with a period of informal probation in place of formal adjudication. More often, once adjudicated and formally ordered to a term of probation, the juvenile must submit to the probation conditions established by the court. When juveniles, ages 17 and under, enter this system, they usually are arrested and placed into a system for younger offenders when it would be a criminal act ... if committed by an adult. The process that usually takes place once arrested involves: intake screening of the cases referred to juvenile and family courts, pre ... affects. One main socio-economic-p...

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... all of the doors were locked. The sun went down on the school, and that is when the school was broken into by three of the youngsters that attended the school. The school was Murray Middle School. The students had a huge plan to trash the school. They brought in shaving cream, toilet paper, and one other thing. The other thing was far worse than the others. The three boys came into the school ... and immediately started to spray the shaving cream all over the lockers and inside of the classrooms that were unlocked. While in the rooms, the boys ... is too high as well. He thinks that the...

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... penalty has existed as long as humans have existed. The quote "an eye for an eye" is found in the Bible. In the Middle Ages fines, public humiliation and imprisonment were appropriate punishments for all crimes, and death penalty for all murders. Today, Federal law (the FBI, CIA, ect) states that the death penalty is to be enforced with convicted criminals for: treason; deserting armed forces during ... rate decreased to 2.19 per 100,000 people, the lowest in 15 years ["World Almanac and Book of Facts", 1998]. Isn't it odd that the crime rates were high with the death penalty and low wi...

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During the Middle Ages, punishment was the solution to every criminal or social offense ranging from stealing to adultery to heresy. All these areas of medieval punishment had there own means of justice, however the most interesting and most controversial would have to be, the use of torture. Torture is the use of physical or mental pain to obtain information, to punish a person, or to control the members of ... their friends are that if they would to steal or murder they would be embarrassed and publicly humiliated. It is proven that social aspects of our lives leave affects on the rest of o...

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... carried out ever since in human history: Starting in the Stone Age, it developed terrible ways which got typical for the Middle Ages - remember torture, quartering, impaling or the burning of witches" - and it was even executed during the French Revolution, the cradle of legal human rights, by using the guillotine, not to forget about the horrors of the Holocaust. Today, the traits of capital punishment are said to be more ... save in this world? According to the international human rights, everybody has the right to live - and so to die when his or her time has come. For the other side...

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