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…CHEMICAL CASTRATION The United States has always sought ways of punishing criminals, but it has begun to seriously crack down on sex offenders, especially child molesters. President Clinton proposed Megan's Law to the country, a law that required…

…aggression in children, study indicates. Available from: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/january17/kidstv-117.html (Accessed 20/12/2004). Connor, T (2004) What causal factors contribute to juvenile problem behaviour? Juvenile Offenders and Troubled…

…PRISON WORKS. DISCUSS. The issue of crime within society has been a problem for many centuries past. There has always been cause for punishment of offenders, but only recently has prison become the main institution for doing so. Until the 18th century…

…to the person who enacts the deviant act. Some people may regard deviance as a behaviour that harms others, 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…

…States. In the late 1980’s the Supreme Court decided to look at age and how the death penalty affects the youth of America. The Supreme Court decided three cases regarding the constitutionality of executing juvenile offenders. In 1088 in Thomas vs…

…to change federal and state laws to allow for community notification of released sex offenders. This law is very controversial because some say it infringes on the rights of privacy guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. The question is what is worth more…

…away. Today, it is increasingly difficult for a person to be ostracized simply as a result of the enormous number of people now populating the earth. Today, sexual offenders are the most likely casualty. A know sex offender is not allowed to blend…

…into an apartment and stomping an elderly man or drowning a woman in her bathtub" (Winn, 73). More than 3,000 studies in the past 40 years have been done to prove the link between violence in TV and real violence. In 1954 networks investigated the link between juvenile…

…of contracting HIV/AIDS are the homeless, runaway youth, juvenile offenders and high school dropouts. That is why it is so important to start community based programs for those youths not enrolled in school. The United States is a very fortunate nation…

…and desensitizing them to violent behavior by other people (Collins) Statistics in The Mass Media and Youth Aggression, states, "Today about 5 out of every 20 robbery arrests and 3 of every 20 murder, rape, and aggravated assault arrests are of juveniles. In raw numbers…