AT RISK CHILDREN
At-risk Children In schools in the United States there is a problem with students that are not getting proper help in class known as at risk children, these students are problematic in class. At risk children are students that have difficulty in school because of their violent back....

Child Abuse in the State of Alaska.
` Child Abuse in the State of Alaska. Abuse 1 Beat them, starve them, neglect them and physically and mentally scar them for the rest of their life. How can we as a society stand by and watch our children be beaten, verbally and sexually abused, or killed bec....

Child Abuse In the World Today
Child Abuse II Abstract As a parent, have you been victim to disciplining your child in public by spanking or yelling at them, and received dirty looks from those around you? Or have you been the one to witness a parent disciplining their child in public and just not agreed to the way they h....

Control Theories of crime
CONTROL THEORIES OF CRIME "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." (Bertrand Russell) Control theories take the opposite approach from other theories in criminology. As their starting point, instead of asking what drives people to commit crime, they ask ....

Crime and Delinquency
In 1939 Criminologist Edwin H. Sutherland proposed his theory of Differential Association in his Principles of Criminology textbook. Differential Association theory states that criminal behavior is learned behavior. Sutherland along with Richard Cloward, and Lloyd Ohlin attempted to explain this phe....

Crime in Canada and in the United States: A Comparative Analysis
In the past three decades, a number of researchers have undertaken the comparison of American and Canadian crime rates. Among them, Lipset (1990) and Hagan (1991) have shown that violence was more frequent south of the border than in Canada. Using infra-national disaggregated crime rates, this artic....

delinquency in youth
This is a review of two articles, from two different accredited sociological journals, concerning the causes of delinquency in youth. The article Social Bonding and Delinquency: A Comparative Analysis states that juvenile delinquency is a product of the youth's social structures, and their interact....

Delinquency rate in Puerto Rico
Delinquency Rate In Puerto Rico In these days the criminal acts have increased over the years in our island, we have more delinquent acts committed than some larger states in the United States. There are different reasons that tell us why the delinquency rate has increased in Puerto Rico. On....

Discuss the emerging phenomenon of juvenile violent crime and the formation of youth gangs
Along the lines of this assignment the overwhelming emerging phenomenon of juvenile violent crime will be discussed, however the author will also provide an overview of one specific form of peer group relationship, the youth gang and why in particular adolescents become gang members. This is follow....

Girls and Crime
What about girls? Stress, teenage mother hood, drug habits all those components needs survival skills. How do you keep those survival skills? Gangs, prostitution, abuse? To us juvenile delinquency is something that we look at it with disdain instead of taking the time to look into sociological issue....

Impact of Stability in the Family and Home on Violent Juvenile Convictions
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM Criminal Justice Proposal for Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice Sacred Heart University The Impact of Stability in the Family and Home on Violent Juvenile Convictions ....

Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer was a troubled young man. He proved this to the United States over the course of his life due to his murder spree in Milwaukee. Dahmer was an outcast as a child, and then he turned into a serial killer. Dahmer presented himself as a normal guy to the people around him, and nobody ....

Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency I am studying Criminal Justice, so I am doing my research on Juvenile Delinquency. My first search was threw Google. I visited a web site (www.agyp.org) I learned of The Andrew Youth Program. This program provides an alternative to incarceration that works. The ide....

Juvenile Delinquency
Children Behind Bars When juveniles commit a crime an issue develops, did they know what they were doing and the effect it would have once the action was carried out? If an adult does not know what was going on in a juveniles mind, can they still be tried as an adult? These are the arguments that f....

Over-representation of Minorities in the Criminal Justice System
Over-representation of Minorities in the Criminal Justice System The rate of incarceration of African Americans has soared to unprecedented levels. The United States prison population has risen to nearly 70%. One out of every 21 Af....

Poverty a retrospect of beliefs with the wrong reality - Comparison/ Contrast Assignment
As children we see life through a different set of eyes than others, and we accept the reality of our surroundings by how others judge us. We were the poor kids of the neighborhood and the others kids let us know that. My parents divorced when I was 5 and things were rough for my mother with 3 kids....

Self Control Theory of Crime Evaluation
Self-Control Theory of Crime Evaluation Conflict theory and social control theory vary from each other in many different ways. An American sociologist by the name of C. Wright Mills came with the concept for Sociological imagination in the 1950�<sup>TM</sup>s. This idea behind sociolo....

Trying and Sentencing Juveniles as Adults
Katy Foley Scott Bendig Juvenile Delinquency December 5, 2006 In our society today, many images of youngsters in handcuffs and prison uniforms are becoming more common in the nightly news. As Americas interests with crime and justice have grown, so has the attention to different ways in w....

Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System
The title on the article I chose to analyze is Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System. In this article many questions were proposed and as the research continued just as many were answered. Some of the questions were what are some of the risk factors for these women and girls? What are ....

Youth Involvement in Gangs
Although some may argue that gang activity and youth involvement has grown exponentially through the years, it has been an ongoing epidemic for decades. Methods, levels of violence, rules, and motivations may have changed over the years, but the basic infrastructure has remained the same. The earlie....

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