In today\'s society, juvenile offenders are now facing a double-edged sword. Not only can they be tried in a Juvenile court for a crime committed. They are now being charged as adults. They are setting a juvenile as an adult has stirred up many different views. When should we say enough is enough?...

The link between drug use and crime is not a new one. For more than twenty years, both the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice have funded many studies to try to better understand the connection. One such study was done in Baltimore on heroin users. This study f...

Juvenile Crime There has always been alarm and despair over escalating juvenile crime. In the 1950s there were reports about the mushrooming problems with youthful gangs in the big cities. In the 1960s we began to hear about a surge of juvenile crime in areas that had been regarded as virtually crim...

Crime and Drug Use federal tax dollars to fund these therapeutic communities in prisons. I feel that if we teach these prisoners some self-control and alternative lifestyles that we can keep them from reentering the prisons once they get out. I am also going to describe some of today's programs that...

Children have become increasingly violent since the 1970s. Today more gangs exist and homicides occur than in the past thirty years. Crime rates have only dropped slightly in the five previous years (Vieregge n.p.). Now that more juvenile delinquents are entering the justice system, the question ...

Each of these headlines from recent New Zealand newspapers is illustrative of an \"episode, condition, person or group of persons\" that have been defined as a \"threat to societal values and interests\"- what Stanley Cohen terms a Moral Panic. So how relevant are Moral Panics today? What role does ...

Introduction: In the movie, the 1960's are portrayed with reality as the viewer is taken to East 187th Street in the Bronx, New York. The Fordham neighborhood shown is highly populated by citizens of Italian decent, and a strong cultural social bond exists in the streets. Children play sti...

Recidivism of Sex Offenders Sex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43,000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510,000 children are sexually assaulted (Oakes...

There are three categories in which I would like to address in the field of Juvenile Justice. First and for most I truly believe that it is human nature or free will that can eventually lead adolescence to delinquent or criminal conduct. Once a teenager makes a conscious decision to reject societal...

PRISONS DO NOT WORKRight now in the United States of America murderers, rapists, and child molesters are being set free. Prisoners are watching T.V., eating a meal, and using exercise equipment while law abiding citizens are starving and living in the gutters. Prisoners even have their own periodica...

DEBATE #6 SHOULD INCARCERTION OF PREGNANT WOMEN BE AVOIDED? The subject of incarceration of pregnant women has been a very controversial issue for years. In this debate, Ken Ayers argues YES. He is well qualified to take this stand because he has presented and published a number of...

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person would be considered to be acting deviantly in society if they are violating what the significant social norm in that particular culture is. What causes humans to act certain ways is a disputed topic among researchers for some time now. There ar...

Mark Sirignano027-66-7577Tues. Thur. 9:25-10:4012-14-99"Deviance in Gang Involvement: Why Join a Gang?"The problem of gang activity is not a new one facing our country. Ever since the beginnings of human existence gangs have served as a means of protection for humans. The issue of gang activity h...