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Though the overall juvenile crime rate has gone down in recent years, the rates of more serious and violent crimes have not seen as dramatic of a decline.... However, throughout history society has viewed the special position of children differently with respect to the crimes they commit.... The types of crimes that children commit have evolved over the decades and have become of critical importance in recent years with the increased prevalence of drugs and violence....
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Essay
"Case Perspective in Juvenile Justice System" paper states that comprehensive intervention programs should be used to fostering cooperation among families, schools, and communities to interact with child offenders who are prone to commit serious and violent crimes.... Data compiled by the National Centre for Juvenile Justice and Office for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention shows that 'the peak hours for violent juvenile crime are between 3.... 'Compared with juveniles who start offending in adolescence, child delinquents (age 12 and younger) are two to three times more likely to become tomorrow's serious and violent offenders....
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Coursework
Juveniles are apprehended for serious crimes such as murder, aggravated assault, robbery and rape as well as less serious offenses such as violation of drug laws, lewd acts or copulation.... The rationale offered for a commission of such crimes is their association with adult male prisoners.... Since they are raped by adult criminals during their initial prison terms, these juveniles seek to wreak vengeance by committing sex crimes after their release from prison....
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Essay
In addition, incarceration arguably helps to reform criminally culpable youth and serves as justice for their crimes.... Status crimes encompass consensual carnal acts; absenteeism from school, breaches of curfew, substance use, leaving ones residence without parental permission, chronic insubordination of... In 2010, an estimated 70,800 juveniles were put behind bars in US's youth detention centers as compared to UK's 43, 601, most of whom were handed more lenient sentences in 2012-2013 in the latter case....
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Assignment
Moreover, many a time juvenile offenders get involved in violent crimes in prison facilities that curtail their capacity and potential for rehabilitation (Coyle, 2005).... Thereby alternatives to incarceration are indeed pragmatic when it comes to sentencing and helping juvenile offenders stay away from a life of crime.... Such courts place the juveniles ailing from mental health disorders, personality problems, and substance abuse and substance addictions in the community oriented mental health programs that are taken care of and supervised by the courts (Jacobson, 2005)....
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Assignment
This division helped in promote alternative sentencing and program for juvenile crime.... The court should consider the fact that juvenile execution won't wipe out the crimes that many children commit.... This change brought about more juveniles committing capital crimes before they reached the age of eighteen.... However, according to international law the death penalty had been abolished for crimes committed below the age of eighteen....
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Research Proposal
Were the perpetrators to be of adult age the behavior of juveniles would not be considered as legal offences, in some cases, though they may not always be acceptable to the law-enforcing authorities.... From the paper "The Juvenile Justice System" it is clear that examining the ways in which the juvenile court can be improved, it has been found that an optimal system of integrating both juvenile and adult courts would have the most successful outcomes....
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Coursework
This coursework describes juvenile delinquency laws and juveniles in criminal court.... This paper analyzes the history of juvenile delinquency laws, trying juveniles as adults, juvenile justice system.... ... ... ... In another instance, a juvenile can be delinquent for what amounts to mere 'incorrigible' conduct and does not involve criminal acts....
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Coursework