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The federal government has very minor involvement in the system of juvenile justice, due to the fact that juvenile crimes are usually violations of the laws of the states (Burfeind & Bartusch, 2011).... The juvenile justice system, which is different from the adult criminal justice system, especially in the way juvenile crimes are handled, and the legal and political actions taken, was established in order to handle crimes committed by young offenders.... To ensure fair legal handling of youth offenders the juvenile justice process is used....
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his essay talks that efforts have also been made to incorporate this process into the criminal justice system for adult offenders.... This essay talks that the basic premise of restorative justice is that crimes are committed against a community or person.... Programs that use restorative justice principles bring the victim(s) and the offender together, allowing each side to express how the offense has affected them....
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This paper "Criminal Justice in Scotland" will analyze if Scotland's existing criminal justice and penology theories and application of these principles in the rehabilitation of offenders are effective in their treatment.... Some also question if Scotland has become safer as it plans to put more people in jail (CJS 2007) by building more prison facilities while others contend that locking offenders up will not change anything if the criminal justice system is not improved....
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Two official documents provided support for this claim, namely, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) report and the juvenile offenders and.... n fact, recidivism among juvenile offenders merits special attention considering the prevalence of drug use among offenders, regardless of whether they are adult or juvenile (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2007; Wei, Makkai & McGregor, 2003).... Results of the study will be of greatest benefit to juvenile offenders and recidivists, by way of its contribution to the knowledge base of juvenile problems and the suggestions which will be formulated as output or recommendations of the study to assist youth offenders in realizing the importance of freedom, healthy and drug-free living, education, a personal relationship with God and acceptance back to free society....
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When reporting crime data to the FBI in United States, most of the law enforcement departments use the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System.... ... ... ... UCR is a countrywide programe that integrates more than 17, 000 cities, universities and colleges, states, federal agencies and counties who As a result, the Federal Bureau of Investigation doers not collect information on itself (Robinson, 1966)....
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istorically, juvenile offenders were processed and punished in the same way as adults.... These offenders were sometimes viewed as being possessed by demons.... This essay "America's juvenile Justice System" analyzes the juvenile justice system that is responsible for keeping citizens safe and rehabilitating delinquent youth.... The development of effective programs and interventions to reduce juvenile recidivism is a national priority....
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This paper 'The Sex offenders' Register Achieves More Than Public Assurance' will seek to investigate whether sex offender registers effectively serve this role, or only act to assure the public without increasing its safety.... Just as important, sexual offenders portend a lifelong, devastating impact on the victim and their family members who are not offenders.... Registration and notification schemes for sexual offenders have been identified and implemented in several countries, including the UK, as a way to counter the obvious menace....
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This research paper 'juvenile Delinquency in Hidalgo County' uses the Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program in calculating the crime rates for Hidalgo County, Texas.... ... ... ... The author states that the total crime rate for McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX M....
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