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…of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice. Cronin, Roberts C. 1994. “Boot camps for adult and juvenile offenders: overview and Update” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute…

…boys) when they commit the same status offense. The sample of girls that were taken for the study by Lind and Shelden was a sample of ten girls that were in a short-term residential treatment program for female juvenile offenders. The age ranged from…

…Crime among juveniles has risen gradually in the 1900’s. The young criminals have just recently begun to commit serious offenses within this and the last decade. Violent crime, usually associated with hardened adult criminals, but today young teenagers…

…“delinquency,” by which they generally mean male delinquency, and can even generate some fairly specific complaints about, for example, the failure of the juvenile justice system to deal with such problems as “the alarming increase in the rate of serious juvenile…

…communities as child abuse. The current approach to formal restorative justice, such as conferencing that encompasses shaming, is cautious in its dealings and is only available to juvenile offenders . This approach maybe viewed as merging a new approach…

…for juvenile offenders. It made juvenile records freely available to law enforcement officials. It created a zero-tolerance policy for juvenile drinking and driving (georgewbush.com). It increased funding for community based programs to deter young criminals…

…offenders, it also purports to better protect the interests of society against violent young people. Under the YOA, Canadian courts no longer play the subjective parental role, which was manifest in the Juvenile Delinquent Act. The courts now apply the same…

…with offenders as young as 12 and as old as 24 -- is badly in need of reform (Davidson, Redner, Amdur, Mitchell, 1990; Schwartz & Barton, 1994). On any given day, more than 18,000 young people are held in the nation's public juvenile detention centers (Schwartz…

…. American Corrections. California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1997. Cowels, Ernest L. Boot Camp aftercare intervention. Washington, D.C: National Institute of Justice, 1995. Cronin, Roberta C. Boot Camps for adult and juvenile offenders. Washington, D.C…

…murders, opponents of the death penalty are putting forth arguments that are just as weighty saying that the death penalty does nothing of the kind. Atypical instances of murder, such as ones dealing with juvenile or mentally deficient offenders, statistics…