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Juvenile Injustice: Disproportionate Minority Contact in Oklahoma's Juvenile Justice System
… show that minority overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system is not a new phenomenon. The problem, however, is not going away and might even be getting worse. In 2008, the FBI's Uniform Crime Report showed that 52% of juvenile Violent Crime Index arrests, and 33% of juvenile Property …
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An Exploration of Impediments to Attachment in a Juvenile Offender Population: Comparisons between Juvenile Sex Offenders, Juvenile Violent Offenders And Juvenile Non-Sex, Non-Violent Offenders
… that may differentiate between incarcerated juveniles who have committed sexual crimes and incarcerated juveniles who have not committed such offenses. The exploration of such potential barriers to attachment has been organized around Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model. Subjects were 2948 …
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The Relationship Between Juvenile Diversion Programs and Recidivism For Juvenile Offenders
… history reports for approximately 200 individual juvenile offenders referred to one of three hearing types, including Community Accountability Boards, Teen Court, and Staff Assignments. Results may help administrators understand the rates of success for each hearing type as well as predict the …
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MAINE'S NEW JUVENILE CODE: A CASE STUDY IN JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM
<p>The history of juvenile justice in the United States is largely a history of failed reform efforts. The most significant of these efforts was the establishment of the juvenile court at the turn of the century and the idea of "socialized" juvenile justice on which it was based. Because the …
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Juvenile crimes in Malawi : life-history narratives of male juvenile offenders
Juvenile crime is a growing problem in Malawi. International research has focussed on the causes of this type of crime in an attempt to explain and deal with this phenomenon. This study adds to the scholarly knowledge by exploring the life stories of 22 male juvenile offenders currently …
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Factors in Juvenile Court Dispositions: Case Study of a Rural Juvenile Court
… data were gathered from 120 Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) files dating back to 1999 that were processed through the study site small county court. The qualitative data were gathered through a series of structured interviews with court personnel. This current study provides …
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Parenting and juvenile delinquency
Contains fulltext : 73527.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Trends in Juvenile Delinquency
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>TRENDS IN JUVENILE DELINQUENCY</p> <p>By</p> <p>David L. Jones</p> <p>This is a study on trends in juvenile delinquency. The research proposal mentions, within the introduction, factors such as unemployment rates, high school dropout rates, poverty, and juvenile delinquency case …
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Referal Practices/Policies of Public School Officials and Juvenile Probation to Juvenile Court Schools
<p>Statistically, the majority of students in court community school programs are of low income and/or minority status. When compared to the general school population, the number of these referred low income and/or minority students is disproportionately high. Since these numbers do not coincide …
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Inside the Juvenile Justice System
… acknowledges the differences between adult and juvenile development and deviant behavior. Within this literature review, academic databases were searched in order to find information showing the differences between the adolescent brain and the adult brain, which supports the importance of …
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Comparative Ecology of Juvenile Striped Bass and Juvenile Hybrid Striped Bass in Claytor Lake, Virginia
… At a total length of approximately 120 mm, the juvenile moronids shifted from a mixed diet of zooplankton and invertebrates to a diet comprised primarily of age-0 fishes. However, after becoming piscivorous striped bass preyed primarily upon age-0 alewife Alosa pseudoharengus, while hybrid …
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Personality Type Preferences of Juvenile Delinquents
… and explore personality characteristics of juvenile delinquents, to compare those characteristics with those of the general population, and determine if there are significant differences, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), between the personality characteristics of …
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Juvenile Justice Sentencing: Are There Alternatives?
Research indicates that states have implemented juvenile justice reforms to enact harsher punishments, to transfer greater numbers and younger juvenile offenders to adult criminal court, and to restrict discretion of the juvenile court judges. Social science studies have found that harsher …
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Police juvenile programs in the Netherlands
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. College of Social Science, School of Police Administration and Public Safety, 1966
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Flatworm Predation on Juvenile Freshwater Mussels
… tuba, a predominantly benthic species, feeds on juvenile freshwater mussels in fish hatcheries and mussel culture facilities. Laboratory experiments were performed to assess the predation rate of M. tuba on newly transformed juveniles of plain pocketbook mussel, Lampsilis cardium. Predation rate …
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The juvenile court of Yakima, Washington
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Sociology, 1920. ; Includes bibliographical references.
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Trauma and Aggression in Juvenile Offenders
… Although both males and females in the juvenile justice system are likely to have experienced trauma, the traumas experienced by males and females as well as the symptoms related to trauma appear to be different. Additionally, trauma appears to be related to high-level forms of …
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