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…Harsher Penalties for Violent Offenders? Should violent offenders be forced to face heavier penalties for their crimes? I think so. And that there should also be some reforms made to our penal system. The death penalty serves its purpose, it kills…

…Our country is one of the four countries since 2000 to execute adolescents. In the past five years, the United States has executed 13 juvenile offenders, three in the year 2002 alone. Eight of these executions took place in the state of Texas…

…Methods for Monitoring Drug Offenders One of the major problems facing today's correctional system is overpopulation. Considering that more than 30% of the prisoners confined are drug users, and those users have a high rate of recidivism upon…

…, juvenile courts that customarily provided social services in order to rehabilitate rather than punish lawbreakers were faced with an onslaught of children who were not simply wayward youths, but hardened repeat offenders. The 1980s witnessed an increasingly…

…, set by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Thompson v Oklahoma. Currently 24 states allow the death penalty to be given to juveniles (Execution of Child Offenders). So of the 38 states that administer the death penalty, 24 allow juveniles to be executed…

…In Oklahoma City on February 11, 2003 a measure that would prohibit sex offenders from living within a mile of any school got an easy backing from a state legislative panel. But the House Criminal Justice Committee balked at a bill to make consensual sex…

…these kids to a certain death. Even Juveniles committing the most heinous crimes need a separate court system. Juvenile justice is in need of a major overhaul. Since young children committing crimes are just starting their lives; children are more likely…

…the most apropos revenge against the child molester...the sex offender! Or is it? Castration as a punishment is clearly a violation of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. This has already been upheld in several U.S. courts…

…in adult courts be forced to serve time in adult prisons, where they are more likely to be sexually assaulted and to become repeat offenders. How much discretion should a judge have in deciding the fate of a juvenile accused of a crime - serious, violent…

…Juvenile Justice is Delinquent By Rita Kramer Juvenile Justice is Delinquent, written by Rita Kramer, is an excellent example of how more and more violent crimes are committed by youthful offenders, usually under the age of seventeen. Kramer has…