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…Can't find it here? Try Research Assistance The truth of Juvenile delinquency By: Anonymous A movement has taken hold nationally to change the juvenile justice system, and erase any distinction between young offenders and adult…

…1. In this situation, the judge has many different options. These options include probation, placement in a group home, being sent to a juvenile detention center, restitution, being fined, or doing community service. Probation is when a judge sets…

…, we banish kids. (Pg. 637)” It should be the other way around. The second article seems the most convincing to me. It makes much greater sense to try to prevent juvenile crime with community-based programs. Juvenile offenders in adult prisons only make…

…as early as 1978 in New York to try juveniles over 12 who commit violent crimes as adults did. However, even since the laws changed only twenty percent of serious offenders served any time. The decision of whether to waive a juvenile to the adult or criminal…

…that the death penalty is racist. One of the statistics shows that 10 of the 16 juveniles executed since 1976 were done the southern states and that only 37% of the offenders on death row are white and the rest are of other races mainly black and Latino. (Juveniles…

…more restrictive than probation. Laws began changing as early as 1978 in New York to try juveniles over 12 who commit violent crimes as adults did. However, even since the laws changed only twenty percent of serious offenders served any time. The decision…

…so that young lawbreakers could avoid the disgrace of being classified in legal records as criminals. Juvenile delinquency laws were designed to provide treatment, rather than punishment, for juvenile offenders. Young delinquents usually are sent…

…that young lawbreakers could avoid the disgrace of being classified in legal records as criminals. Juvenile delinquency laws were designed to provide treatment, rather than punishment, for juvenile offenders. Young delinquents usually are sent to juvenile…

…was established so that young lawbreakers could avoid the disgrace of being classified in legal records as criminals. Juvenile delinquency laws were designed to provide treatment, rather than punishment, for juvenile offenders. Young delinquents usually are sent…

…respond to the increase of violence and juvenile offenders by building new facilities. Instead, of doing this they spend that money on prevention methods such as providing schools with more counselors? They could provide more after school programs to help keep…