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…enforcing them. According to Gennaro F. Vito, studies prove that enforcing "status laws" (2) among juvenile offenders can actually cause more crimes instead of preventing them. Churches and community leaders in areas of high crime have begun to do things to work…

…enforcing them. According to Gennaro F. Vito, studies prove that enforcing "status laws" (2) among juvenile offenders can actually cause more crimes instead of preventing them. Churches and community leaders in areas of high crime have begun to do things to work…

…, or a behaviour that offends God, while others may see that all criminal offences in general are justified as forms of deviant behaviour. "Is adultery Deviant? Not in some societies, like the Lepcha of Sikkim, a tiny state in northern India. The Lepcha tolerate…

…that it is preferable to have a parent or social worker present when you are questioning a juvenile,” he explained to his appreciative audience. “I was also well aware that it would be an exercise in futility, so I chose to disregard those guides.” Graham’s was a bold…

…an offender; with compensatory law the victim demands payment; and with therapeutic and conciliatory law the deviant himself seeks services to improve his or her condition. By addressing the quantity and styles of law, Black attempts to explain the variations…

…" criminal. Typically, they are found in various professional, corporate, and government settings. The single general feature of "white-collar" offenders was their specialized access to crime targets by way of work, or organizational position. A generalization…

…and demeaning to African Americans. What people did not realize was that Twain wanted to offend his readers. He wanted to portray the image of the unfair treatment of people in this country. After The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published, it became…

…city. These theories are the most commonly used theories to explain juvenile delinquency. (JRCD, Vol. 37 No.2 May 2000) The testing done was directly with incarcerated males and females, with the study to also show the differences between the genders…

…, and behavior” (Senate subcommittee…). This is a crazy assumption with no facts to back it up. According to Vincent Shiraldi, the executive director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, “There has been a 30 percent drop in juvenile homicides…

…major school districts now use metal detectors to reduce the number of weapons brought into schools by students (Wheeler & Baron, 1993). The juvenile offenders who are arrested for weapons violations are sometimes fellow students, and other times non-student…