Essays on Juvenile Delinquency

Abstract

Juvenile delinquency is one of the most pressing issues that any society can face. There are certain risk and protective factors that influence children's disposition toward criminal behavior. These factors can be grouped into community, individual, and social categories. Each of these three categories contain certain risks that can contribute to a child's tendency to engage in delinquent activities. Schools, families, and other communities have a responsibility to try and protect the youngest and most vulnerable members of our society from being exposed to these factors. By doing so, we can address the problem at its root and curb ...

Psychology: Alberta Banner Turner

Introduction Alberta Banner Turner, first ever African American who has received a degree of PHD in psychology from Ohio State University, is a role model and counsellor for youngsters and has been a pioneer in the field of psychology (African American Pioneers in Psychology, n.dat.). The objective of this paper is to discuss the biography of Alberta Banner Turner, one of the early female and ethnic minority pioneers in the field of psychology. This paper is divided into five sections. First section talks about the personal and educational history of Alberta Banner Turner. Second section deliberates the professional life ...

Background

According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2019) in 2018, the total number of offenses committed by young offenders was 728, 280. The major crimes committed by young offenders include simple assault (125,030), drug abuse violations (90,670), and disorderly conduct (57, 760). The most significant crime committed by young offenders was violent crimes (46,140). Although the overall crimes committed by the young individuals dropped by 10 percent from the 2017 calendar year to the 2018 fiscal period, these crimes still baffle the relevant authorities and the public. The major question that accompanies the ...

Juvenile crime in the United States of America is as old as the nation itself. However, over the years there has been deliberate reform within the criminal justice system effectively affecting juveniles. Delinquency refers to the crimes committed by juveniles. A juvenile ideally refers to a person between the ages of twelve and seventeen. In that breadth, juveniles are just developing out of childhood and about to graduate into adulthood. At this stage, the law recognizes that the person may not appreciate the law as it is and may not necessarily be capable of harboring a mental intention to commit crime. ...

- Strain as the actual or anticipated removal of positively valued stimuli and

- Strain as the actual or anticipated presentation of negatively valued stimuli

In all the scenarios, strain is responsible for creating a negative scenario, while at the same time removing all the hopes for positive goals amongst the youths. In other words, there is nothing good about strain and it can negatively impact on the behaviour of the victims in the long run if they do not get proper counselling.

In most of the cases, the victims of Cyberbullying often fear for their safety ...

Delinquency has persisted as one of the most disturbing social problems (Wollan, 1941). According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) 2007 report, juvenile courts are being challenged by the increasing number of child delinquents coming before them. Juvenile courts in the year 1997, handled more than 180,000 juvenile offenders younger than thirteen years. Snyder (2001) found out that juvenile courts handled an increase by 33% of juveniles aged between 7 and 12.It has been noted that compared to juveniles who first get involved in delinquency in their teens, child delinquents aged younger than thirteen ...

The juvenile justice system is a foundation in the society which is granted responsibilities and power; it mirrors the adult system of criminal justice in that it also has three basic components like the adult system of justice. Its components are courts, police and corrections. The juvenile justice system brings the juvenile delinquent in contact with the court system if found guilty and the local police. A police officer is the first contact that a juvenile offender has with the juvenile system. He/she is considered the gate keeper of the juvenile system. Police officers are the most visible officials in the ...

Introduction

Over the recent past, juvenile delinquency has been a hotly contested issue in the city of Centervale. This has been attributed to the continuous upsurge of criminal activities. As indicated in the official data, there is an increase of status offenses particularly curfew and truancy. The city’s police department has also reported that numbers of minor arrests involving vandalism, larceny, illegal entry and assault has consistently increased. Juvenile offending has also seen a rapid rise in the number of incidents involving female offenders.

The local residents have developed an assumption that children have gone out of control. Despite juvenile justice ...

The D.A.R.E Project was originally developed in the United States of America as a school-based drug-education program with a heavy funding of over $200 million every year, and aims at equipping elementary school children with skills for resisting both peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol and the use of drugs. As I see it, the program is good and has a great overview at first glance, therefore making it effective for the first two years after training in elementary school, but then wears off and hence is not effective in high school and college where the largest number of ...

In recent debate, there have been questions raised as to whether the juvenile justice system is too lenient, allowing juvenile offenders to repeat grave criminal offenses and get away with them, citing little to no parental guidance. Some individuals, and institutions alike, have been advocating for the instituting of dramatic measures such as the revocation of parental rights, removal of children from the home, and even forced sterilization of parents convicted of felony abuse or neglect. However, I do not believe such measures would work to mitigate and/or eradicate cases of juvenile delinquency.

While dramatic and stringent measures may ...

The 21st Century American family is faced with very many challenges and problems than in any other time recorded in history. From economic downturns, to drugs, violence, racism, wars, global warming and health problems, the American family is influenced greatly by these problems. It is shown in marriages, and child behavioural patterns, which most of the time lead to delinquency. I will seek to identify some of these major problems and how the influence the prevalence of delinquent behaviour in society.

Divorce has become a plague in the American family. Many children have been involved in a divorce since 1972. Statistically, ...

Adolescent criminal behaviour (juvenile delinquency) is by far one of the most discussed social issue in the United States since the early 1960s. This was attributed to the fact that at the time, the United States was transitioning into another stage of development. This growth and development however caused social and economic stratification where most neighbourhoods were divided according to ethnic background and economic leverage. This raises the issue as to whether poverty is an influence to adolescent criminal behaviour. Indeed poverty influences adolescent criminal behaviour.

In 1997, New York City experienced a surge in juvenile delinquency cases reported and ...

Conventional wisdom suggests that society full of criminals is likely to characterized by extreme levels of poverty; economic distress. In a classical view, this relationship between poverty and crime is that poverty, in one way or another encourages poverty-stricken persons to commit a crime. “Poverty is a serious problem in the lives of children” (Bartollas & Schmalleger, 2011, p.173). It has disastrous effects; including high levels of non-marital child bearing, reduced academic attainments to children, disrupted parenting and extended health problems. As families experience these challenges as a result of economic stress, juvenile involvement in crime is also reared.

Poor families experience ...

Juvenile delinquency has become a common societal issue since the early 60s. By definition, juvenile delinquency broadly refers to criminal acts that have been committed by individuals under the age of 18 years. Much debate and research revolves around the cause of juvenile delinquency and this is triggered by the prevalence of juvenile delinquency. In this paper, I will seek to look at the prevalence of juvenile delinquency by giving facts and figures to support arguments made. The different theories that explain juvenile delinquency shall be highlighted and the most accurate explained based on the data.

The cause of juvenile ...

Adolescent criminal behavior (Juvenile delinquency) is a major societal issue that has plagued the United States since the early 1960s. There has been much inquiry and study into the causes and triggers of juvenile delinquency and most of the studied come up with similar outcomes depending on the approach taken. Poverty has been highlighted as one major factor that leads to gradual development of juvenile delinquent behavior in all these studies. Poverty is one of the root causes of delinquency. I will seek to validate this statement through relevant arguments backed by factual statistics.

According to the Oxford dictionary, poverty ...

Juvenile delinquency is an adolescent disorder that affects children between the ages of about 7 and 17 years. Juveniles at this age normally experience adolescent disorder that affects their rational decision making abilities. The victims of the disorder may get involved in certain crimes making them subject to law enforcement agencies.

One of the contemporary issues especially in the American society is the measure(s) taken by the society in addressing the behavior of juvenile offenders. The number as well as the type of crimes committed by adolescents, 7-17 year-olds, has been overwhelming. The law enforcement agencies advocate for ...

Social disorganization theory explains the prevalence of juvenile delinquency in many areas. This theory relates how societal norms and structure influence the rate of delinquency in the society. Lack of structure in society influences poverty levels, economy of the society, education, residential turn-over and family stability (Bartollas, 1985, p. 81). This theory’ proponents argue that factors that shape local communities like immigration, politics, housing and others, influence the structure of the society, which in-turn influences other factors like crime prevalence. Sociological theories influence how policies are structured. Many policies are made in consultation with or in response to ...

Introduction

Divorce has become prevalent in contemporary societies. As observed by scholars, the instances of divorce have substantially increased over the years most especially in countries where divorce laws are quite lenient. It appears then that the natural urge for parents to bind themselves together and establish a partnership in order to increase their ability to raise their offspring and to increase the survival of the family in general has somehow diminished. In the present society where divorce has become almost a part of a country’s culture, the possibility of having an intact family upbringing becomes increasingly slim. As divorce increases, the ...

This critique analyzes a journal by Özden Özbay of Nigde University, Turkey and Yusuf Ziya Özcan of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. This Journal reviews a research conducted among 1,710 high school students in the city of Ankara, Turkey in June 2001 to test the Hirsch’s Social Bonding Theory using a case study that compares female and male Delinquency. In the study, Hirsch’s social bonding theory is used to identify the aspects of the theory that can account for female or male delinquency. In addition, the research study tries to find out if social bonding variants can ...

In the recent years, there have been surging numbers of high-profile cases involving adolescent who commit violent crimes. This drastic rising of violent crimes involving children has attracted public attention. Nevertheless, it is clear that over the years there have been an upward trend in juvenile cases as argued by Espiritu et al. (2003). Indeed, through in-depth observation, it is worth understanding that juvenile delinquency is creasing especially among young offenders of between seven and eight years. Furthermore, it is observed that children of less than 13 years are frequently being arrested for juvenile offenses. The recent statistics in ...

Theories focused on Juvenile Victimization and Violence

The story of David Holthous, as heard in the podcast, raises serious questions on rising juvenile delinquency in the United States. The psychological impact that juvenile victims face during their innocent childhood days leads to prolonging after effects for the rest of their lives. The 'Act One' story is one such incident out of thousands that happen in the US (thisamericanlife.org, 2011). However, there are many theories directly related to such incidents. Physical abuse, Child neglect, Bullying, Pedophile and Sexual abuse are more common events that have become a day to day activity. There are tough laws in store to ...

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This paper entitled “Florida: Addressing the Juvenile Delinquency through Crime Prevention Policies” is aimed at determining the appropriateness of the existing policy of the State of Florida relating to the prevention of the growing rate in juvenile delinquency arrests. Needless to say, despite the significant decrease in the number of juvenile arrests in Florida, it continuous to be the highest in the United States . Legislative and historical records show that the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice used to apply the rehabilitative model of justice system. Nevertheless, it has been proven ineffective. Over the years, the State of ...

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I. Introduction There several reasons why one would want to prevent juveniles from being delinquents or from pursuing actions that would lead them to continue to delve into delinquent behavior. One of the most obtrusive reasons for doing such is that delinquency holds the youth at risk. These risks are for school drop outs, drug use and dependency, further injury, incarceration, adult criminality and early pregnancy (Greenwood, 186). Protecting the youth from such delinquent acts saves them from wasting their lives. Of course, many other reasons arise as well. As Greenwood (186), narrates, most of the adult ...

Introduction

Everyone is affected by juvenile crimes. Over the past several years, juvenile crimes have been decreasing. However, juvenile crime rates are still too high. There have been several programs established in order to eliminate juvenile delinquency. However, these programs need to be evaluated from time to time to make sure they are still designed to keep juvenile crimes low. These programs have been proven effective when it comes to lowering juvenile delinquency rates. These programs are programs such as head start, Big Brother and Big Sisters, and school mentoring programs. Programs such as head start and younger child programs ...

Torio S. James

Saint Leo University The Problem The last two decades left the United States of America’s detention centers flooded with juvenile offenders. The rate at which juveniles get themselves in detention facilities for rehabilitation is at its peak demanding attention from the justice system of the country. Statistics show that the young people are perpetrators of violent crimes inclusive of murder, rape, armed robbery and several other crimes more than ever before. Further studies accentuate that the greater percentage of inmates in jails currently throughout the US comprises inmates in the age bracket of 17 and 21 ...

EXAM QUESTIONS ON BUSINESS AND SOCIETY

1. To what extent are companies justified in claiming that they are good corporate citizens? The key goal of any business enterprise is to maximize profits and minimize cost. The management must safeguard the social welfare of the employees. In addition, the company must respect the social and cultural values as well as providing quality products and services to the consumers. Therefore, corporate citizenship is the understanding of all stakeholders in a company or business enterprise that it has social responsibilities to the employees, the surrounding society and the consumers, who indirectly influence the company’s performance in regional ...

Introduction

Juvenile offenders are growing in numbers and they take a significant account of arrests involving the crimes of burglary, murder and rape. Juvenile delinquency is no doubt a social problem that is becoming pervasive if not addressed appropriately. The juvenile law took transitional stages in order to adopt to the changing trends in juvenile crimes and offenses. Through the efforts of social reformers, the juvenile justice system in the country took one form to another from the creation of reformation schools for the juvenile delinquents, the separation of juvenile offenders from the adult offenders, the creation of the special juvenile courts, ...

Children, as our messengers into the future we will not be able to experience, are our most valuable resource. Hence, the serious threat juvenile delinquents pose to the current and future safety of the American society. Debates have aroused about parents’ legal responsibility for their minor children’s behavior, both civil and criminal. So far, there are laws established that hold parents only civilly liable, like the Parent Liability Child’s act, where the parent’s obligation is to pay, depending on the State’s maximum monetary amount, for damage done by their minor children until they reach the ...

Introduction

Violence among youths is a social phenomenon that has been experienced in many social settings and communities. To understand this phenomenon, we must understand that violence is not a single activity, but rather a socially defined group of events that share similar characteristics (Furlong&Smith,2004). Violence is a universal phenomenon, although there are some places where its prevalence is higher than others. Sociologists seek to investigate the factors that create higher rates of violence in some societies than others. This paper will approach the problem of teen violence form a functionalist approach.

The functionalist approach, also known as functionalism, has its roots in the ...

Introduction

The juvenile system of justice refers to the laws that govern juveniles, which refers to persons who are under 18 years of age. Consequently, juveniles can be punished for the crimes they commit and even in some cases, they can be tried in the same way as adults. However, there are several instances where parents have been fined or convicted for crimes done by juveniles. Additionally, there are laws that have been established to hold parents accountable for the various crimes committed by children who are minors. The issue of take the parent’s responsibility for their children’s ...

Crime is a significant issue in America as well as other countries. In order to try to lessen the rate of crime in America, the causes of crime are often studied. Records are keep of those who commit crimes in order to determine the underlying factors which led to these offenses in an effort to decrease their occurrence. An entire field of study, criminology is dedicated to the study of crime in society. The field of criminology encompasses not only the causes of crime and theories behind why people commit crimes, it also studies the detailed of rates of crime ...

Law

There have been proposals to divide the juvenile courts in two divisions which may result to both advantages and disadvantages to the taxpayer and the youth offender. Under this proposed system, the offender shall either be tried under the juvenile delinquency court and there are those who will be tried under the status offender court. As a general rule, majority of the youth offenders are charged for delinquency cases have been classified as status offenders. One of the benefits or advantages of dividing the juvenile system in two divisions will redound to the benefit of the status offenders since ...

Throughout the American history, young offenders as young as seven years old have been incarcerated and held in the same facilities with grownups. The state of New York was the first to notice this injustice and in the 1824, the House of Refuge was opened. It was the first house of reform in the United States of America. States followed suit and established their own reform houses. In Maryland, children were held in a separate facility for the first time in history. In 1899, the Cook County in the state of Illinois opened the first juvenile court. The proceedings in ...

Physical abuse is an important issue related to the human development. It affects the growth and development of an individual. Physical abuse is a common phenomenon that is probably found in every society. There are different factors for physical abuse that affects the human development. Children in their childhood experience the physical abuse from their parents, for example, there are possibilities that their father or may be their mother abuse them physically. In addition, there are equal chances that a husband physically abuses her wife front of his parents that affects the children’s cognitions, emotions and behaviors. Physical abuse or ...

Most states have enacted laws that allow prosecution of juvenile offenders as adults in response to the increasing rates of crimes committed by adolescents. Those in favor of trying juvenile offenders as adults believe that certain violent crimes committed by juveniles merit harsher punishment than allowed by juvenile law, and that harsher punishment may serve as a deterrent for the commission of future crimes. However, a growing body of evidence is beginning to show that this belief is wrong and unjust. Many nonthreatening juvenile offenders are sent through adult criminal courts regardless of the impact of their crime on the ...

Mental Illness and Juvenile Delinquency

In recent years, reports of crimes committed around the globe are causing alarms for many not just because of the violence it entails but as to the identity of perpetrators. Criminals nowadays are becoming far younger than they were years ago and for the government, this is alarming as these children should be with their families and learning. Several reasons have already been identified as to why juvenile delinquency persists: from family conditions to social influence. However, some also argue that mental illness is at fault with some cases of juvenile delinquency. Mental illnesses disable children and teenagers from ...

Community policing may be defined, according to Leighton (1991), as a type of approach that involves the philosophy, organization and operations in urban policing. This approach gives premium to police-community partnership and solving problems. It takes a holistic approach in policing by establishing patterns manifested by the nature of criminality in a given locality (Grossman and Roberts p. 141). For example, if burglary is prevalent in a certain part of the city, the police look at the conditions of the area that makes it susceptible to the crime. A solution to this problem may include strategies, such as ‘target hardening,’ or making the ...

Introduction and Thesis

Curfew for minors occurs as one of the topics that have and continues to create an intense debate across various contexts in the society. Often referred to as juvenile curfew, curfew for minor place restrictions on minors; persons under the age of 17 from being in outside at night. However, is of the essence that there are some exceptional circumstances that may allow minors to be out at night such during cases when minors have school travels. In the recent past, various individual have raised questions on whether juvenile curfew are constitutional. Those opposed to juvenile curfew often argue ...

Rehabilitation versus Incarceration

JUVENILE OFFENDERS 2 Introduction Crime is a prevalent factor in American society, and is committed among all individuals regardless of age, race, gender, or socioeconomic status. The majority of American juveniles, individuals under the age of eighteen, have admitted to committing some type of crime throughout their young life. While the majority of crimes by juveniles are considered petty, non-violent, and overall minor offenses, youths also commit dangerous and heinous acts of crime identical to what we see in the adult penal system. In the last 30 years, Sociologists, Criminologists, and Penologists have witnessed both major and minor ...

- Juvenile Delinquency - Theories of Delinquency Throughout history, communities and experts have varying opinions when it comes to explaining why there are juveniles or minors violating rules and laws. According to Martin (2005), early experts and communities tried to explain juvenile delinquency with two theories: demonism and naturalism. Naturalism pertains to the ‘practice of linking human affairs with the natural world, justifying human behavior with the influence of nature.’ For example, if the change due to lunar and solar cycles, human behavior is also affected by these forces. Ancient civilizations in the Mediterranean use this theory ...

Redefining motherhood

Introduction The economy and the cost of living change the perspective of parenting in general and mothering in particular. With a high demand for basic needs such as education, mothers are increasingly flooding the job market to earn a living and supply their children's needs. This action leads to high rates of single-parent families or inadequate interaction between the mother and her family. The traditional form of nuclear family consisting a working man as the sole bread-winner and the wife as a full-time home-maker is on the decline in most urban households (Garey, 1993). In order to match the new standards and ...

Raising sons and daughters to be a good person and law abiding citizens is among the greatest challenges of parenthood. One needs to be keen on the harmonious familial relationship at home and the environment outside to assure good influences to our sons and daughters. Juvenile delinquency is one of the issues that confront the families, societies, and nations. Data from the National Institute of Justice revealed that the youth with cases in the juvenile court in the United States reached 1.3 million in 2010 (National Institute of Justice, 2014). The government attributes the high number of juvenile delinquency cases ...

Philosophy and community

Introduction Over the years, for a long time now, the media has been associated with the problems faced every day in the society. Through this, the media has been blamed for the issues in the problem and in turn, have become a social problem too. One such problem is the crime rate among the children and the youth leading to juvenile delinquency. They have a wide access of information through the media because the media provides wide range of information all across the globe. The wide range of films, video games, reports among many others that these age groups can access ...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of juvenile justice and court punishment provided for juvenile offenders. The research gives a full coverage to the reasons that motivate the youth to commit crimes. There are various types of offenses and punishment considered based on the information provided by the finest law experts who represent international organizations and the collegiums of lawyers, addressing the problem of juvenile justice and the ways of overcoming the issue in their respective reports, reviews, and programs. Key words: juvenile justice, crime, offender, court, delinquency Adult delinquency is high enough while that of youth is ...

The organization that was chosen is the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA). The BGCA is a national organization that is composed of local chapters that endeavors to provide after-school programs for the youth. The BGCA is granted with congressional charter by the American government under Title 36 of the U.S. Code. This organization is partly funded by the government and enjoys tax-exemption privileges. The organization is actively involved in providing a better future for the youth as part of its corporate social responsibility to the community. BGCA ensures the safety and protection of young boys and girls, and ...

Introduction

Delinquency is major problems in American society. Delinquency, however, is not new problems. It has plagued societies throughout history. Delinquency is among the most resistant forms of problem behavior well known. Despite best efforts by the U.S governments, society has failed to make a substantial reduction in this problem of delinquency. The understanding of delinquency and the way to prevent and treat has improved and continues to develop under the control of the Office of Delinquency prevention and Juvenile Justice. Past research shows that many delinquency factors tend to increase the threat of later delinquent behavior. Among these threat factors ...

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Introduction

Juvenile detention center commonly referred to as a juvie, is a high security residential service facility purposely designed for juvenile delinquents. In these facilities, the young adults who are barely 18 years of age are provided with special services both legal, social and psychological prior to their court hearings or their designated placements to specially created long term juvenile delinquents programs. These facilities are designed to manage the youngsters involved in acts of indecent conduct or instances that relates to criminal activities. The different court systems designed for juvenile delinquents are responsible for sentencing or holding juveniles into certain facilities or ...

Juvenile Delinquency Research Proposal

Juvenile delinquency refers to a crime perpetrated by a minor who has not yet reached maturity. Since it has been seen in many scientific studies that a person doesn't attain full maturity until he reaches 18 years of age, juvenile offenders are treated differently than adults by the court of justice. In US there is a separate justice system for juveniles to deal with juvenile offenders. Based on the principle of "parens patriae", juvenile courts function like a guardian or parent by taking decisions in favor of the wellbeing of the children. However, despite separate justice system for juveniles, USA prosecutes juvenile offenders, guilty ...

Introduction

Violence by and against children is completely unacceptable and against their fundamental rights. It is imperative that institutions and government agencies ensure they design policies, programs and initiatives that are efficient and progressive not only by preventing juvenile delinquency, but more significantly by protecting the society from errant delinquents. Many theorists and scholars have placed more emphasis in drafting these policies to reflect a social approach to the problem of juvenile delinquency rather than adopting a judicial approach. It is a fundamental obligation not only to the criminal justice system, but also to the society at large to prevent juvenile delinquency. The ...

Introduction

Public concern is escalating on children engaging in crimes at an age below thirteen years. The young offenders are at a great risk of becoming extremely violent and dangerous criminals if appropriate intervention and prevention to curb their behaviors is not initiated. The number of child offenders handled by juvenile courts is on an upward trend since 1997 when the numbers of child cases was about two hundred thousand children below thirteen years. Currently, juvenile courts have to deal with cases of children offenders approximately one million two hundred thousand. It is apparent that majority of the offenses reported are ...

Introduction

America has the potential of reducing further the detrimental Juvenile crimes that are rampant in the US today if the Juvenile Justice will consider the Missouri model. United States have been one of the countries that have high cases of juvenile court cases. Statistics show that in every four Americans arraigned in court one of them has the capability of being a juvenile delinquent. California records high number of such incidences according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The rising number of crimes includes the Juvenile of Ex-offenders. This is somehow unnecessary since the US Juvenile System provides for ...

Project Title

Introduction Juvenile Justice System is a system established to handle and tackle juvenile delinquency. The system comprises of several juvenile courts across the United States, which are bestowed with the responsibility of juvenile delinquency. The system works on the fundamental principal of deterring juveniles from crimes through reforming them. Adult juvenile system is a system established to tackle and handle cases of adult criminals. The adult justice system has mechanisms that guarantee adults are punished for crimes committed. Juvenile and adult justice systems have several similarities in terms of their rights and responsibilities. However, it is also apparent that the ...

Criminal Law

Mara Salvatrucha Gang or the MS-13 Gang Based on the report of the Committee on Internal Relations of the House of Congress (2005), one of the famous notorious gangs known all over the world is Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang. MS-13 is a violent gang that is composed of Central America Immigrants who originated in Los Angeles, California and has spread across America. The gang members come from various parts of the world including Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The National Drug Intelligence Center estimates that there are 8,000 to 10,000 members of MS-13. Although such group is ...

Law

Abstract This paper will discuss three information technology systems used by modern policing and how these three technologies had assisted in the improvement of the community policing program. These three technologies are the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) database of the FBI, Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Crime mapping. The paper has provided a detailed discussion on the significant benefits that the technologies had on law enforcement operations, specifically on community-oriented policing (COP), the drawbacks of these technologies on law enforcement operations and the specific problems that had been directly addressed by UCR, CAD and Crime mapping. These three technologies are ...

Introduction

This research paper examines and discusses three aspects of juvenile crime. The first is the association between child abuse/neglect and juvenile delinquency and possible remedies. The second is how to deal with the growing social problem of juvenile gangs in the U.S., and third and final aspect is that of the link between low educational achievement and delinquency and the possible changes that could help overcome that problem.

The Research

The Link Between Child Abuse and Juvenile Crime. According to Widom (2002), the link between juvenile delinquency and violent behaviour has been increasingly recognized in the last two or three decades. ...

Project DARE has been developed in the nation as a school-based drug-education program that receives an annual funding of over $200 million, with the aim of equipping elementary school children with skills for resisting peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. In my opinion the idea is great, and is effective for the first two years but then wears off and hence is not effective with high school and college where peer pressure and contact with drugs is seen amongst juveniles, this is explained in the book “Juvenile Delinquency”, Eighth Edition, by Clemens Bartollas and Frank Schmalleger. They ...

Since the inception of the juvenile justice system, there have been many segments of the society that have been incorporated into the management and running of the system to ensure its success. Each of these parties play a vital role, each with its own unique set of characteristics and responsibilities that make it most effective in accomplishing the given role. Some of these parties include the police, the courts and the department of justice. In this paper, I will seek to discuss and critically analyse the roles of these three parties within the juvenile justice system.

The Police

The police are considered ...

The main focus of this research paper is about juvenile delinquents and how they have affected the present criminal justice system. Currently, the number of juvenile delinquents or regarded as children in conflict with the law continue to grow for the past decade. Juvenile delinquents are considered one of the serious concerns in the criminal justice system since most of them are imprisoned. Due to the rising number of these youth offenders, several states within the country have created “teen courts” or likewise called the youth courts (Siegel and Welsh, 2010, p. 492). Based on the recent studies, the ...

Gangs and gang related activities have been issues that have plagued the American Society and the nation as a whole from the early 60s. The issues of gangs is one that is very difficult to deal with, however, as a community I believe this plague that continues to steal the lives and future of our children can be mitigated if not eradicated. Firstly, juvenile delinquency, is almost is always exercised in a group dynamic. This is how peer pressure works, the illusion of belonging to a group or family where an individual finds purpose and a reason for life. However, this purpose is ...