80 Delinquenc Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
Adolescent Drug Use
Its true what the older generations have said. Family is important. During the adolescent years, a teenager is going through a lot of chaos with developmental changes, intellectual growth, and the stress of becoming an adult. Some researchers have found that adolescent drug use is less likely if p....
american women
American Women During World War II.
America's entry into World War II posed opportunities for American women domestically, yet paradoxically heightened fears in the polity about the exact role that women should adopt during wartime. A central is....
An Act for Human Betterment by Voluntary Sterilization: the effect of culture on biology in turn-of-
An Act for Human Betterment by Voluntary Sterilization: the effect of culture on biology in turn-of-the-century Vermont
Ariel Singer
Most people today have a rudimentary understanding of the fundamentals of biological evolution (whether they believe in the biology, or not, is another question al....
Antisocial Personality Disorders Psychopathy and Conduct Disorder
Abstract
The Idea of a criminal personality type was first discussed by Philippe Pinel, an 18th century psychiatrist, who was concerned about patterns of behavior that were marked by a complete lack of remorse and restraint. However it was not until 1941, when Checkley described 16 criteria based o....
AT RISK CHILDREN
At-risk Children
In schools in the United States there is a problem with students that are not getting proper help in class known as at risk children, these students are problematic in class. At risk children are students that have difficulty in school because of their violent back....
Bipolar Disorder in Teens and Children
Everyone has ups and downs in their mood; such as, happiness, sadness, and anger are normal emotions and an essential part of everyday life. In contrast, bipolar disorders a medical condition in which people have mood swings out of proportion, or totally unrelated, to things going on in their lives.....
Can Violent Behavior Be Predicted
Human violence is fast becoming a global epidemic. All over the world, police face angry mobs, terrorists disrupt the Olympics, hijackers seize airplanes, and bombs wreck buildings. Violence in the United States grew even faster than inflation during the past year. Violent behavior can be predict....
Capital Punishment
Darren Parker
Capital Punishment
DEATH- The word alone sums up a great deal of horrific pain and torture, despite this some states or countries still use it today as a form of punishment for the criminal lowlife that pollutes the world. In this piece of writing, I am going to discuss Ca....
Causes of Deviant Activities in Youth
Youth today are exposed to many more influences then thirty years ago because many families have both parents working and this results in less time spent guiding todays youth. Fifty years ago, mothers would stay at home to teach children what is right and what is wrong and help embed the goals of ....
Consumer Spending
Business Problem Paper: Consumer Spending
The sharp rise in household debt and delinquency rates over the last year has led to speculation that consumers will soon revert to more cautious spending behavior. Yet an analysis of the past relationship between household liabilities and expenditures pr....
Control Theories of crime
CONTROL THEORIES OF CRIME
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." (Bertrand Russell)
Control theories take the opposite approach from other theories in criminology. As their starting point, instead of asking what drives people to commit crime, they ask ....
Corporal Punishment
The term corporal punishment means the intentional infliction of pain on the body for purposes of punishment and includes slapping, hitting with objects, pinching, shaking and forcing to stand for long periods of time (Epoch 1). Family researchers define corporal punishment as " the use of physical ....
corporal punishment
Corporal punishment is a very controversial topic that is being discussed amongst educators across the nation. Corporal punishment refers to any physical form of punishment, but in this case it refers to in schools. Currently there are many different terms used to label corporal punishment, for exam....
Crime and Delinquency
In 1939 Criminologist Edwin H. Sutherland proposed his theory of Differential Association in his Principles of Criminology textbook. Differential Association theory states that criminal behavior is learned behavior. Sutherland along with Richard Cloward, and Lloyd Ohlin attempted to explain this phe....
Crime Causation and Diversion
The biggest investment any community can make is the investment in our youth. The youth are our future. There is no better investment we as a community can make than on our future. For this reason any program that can intervene or divert youth from gangs, drugs or violence is a wise investment which....
Crime in Canada and in the United States: A Comparative Analysis
In the past three decades, a number of researchers have undertaken the comparison of American and Canadian crime rates. Among them, Lipset (1990) and Hagan (1991) have shown that violence was more frequent south of the border than in Canada. Using infra-national disaggregated crime rates, this artic....
Data Base Analysis and Improvement
Organizational Database Analysis and Improvement
Health Insurance Companys run their business on many computer systems some of which have a main system in which they hold all their members on, therefore; being the main system the company works off of. Usually there is one main company that suppl....
Death of Capital Punishment
The Death Of Capital Punishment aka Its A Criminals World
I strongly believe that the death penalty is on its way to abolishment worldwide, and is truly gasping its last breath. Who succeeds here? The violent criminal, of course, who sucks the last breath out of politicians and voters alik....
delinquency in youth
This is a review of two articles, from two different accredited sociological journals, concerning the causes of delinquency in youth. The article Social Bonding and Delinquency: A Comparative Analysis states that juvenile delinquency is a product of the youth's social structures, and their interact....
Delinquency rate in Puerto Rico
Delinquency Rate In Puerto Rico
In these days the criminal acts have increased over the years in our island, we have more delinquent acts committed than some larger states in the United States. There are different reasons that tell us why the delinquency rate has increased in Puerto Rico.
On....
Department of Justice
Historical Overview
The Department of Justice was created by the Department of Justice Act, passed at the first
session of Parliament of the Dominion of Canada and assented to on May 22, 1868. This act
outlined the responsibilities of the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of Ca....
Discuss the emerging phenomenon of juvenile violent crime and the formation of youth gangs
Along the lines of this assignment the overwhelming emerging phenomenon of juvenile violent crime will be discussed, however the author will also provide an overview of one specific form of peer group relationship, the youth gang and why in particular adolescents become gang members. This is follow....
Divorce and Children
Regardless of age, race, sex or religion, divorce has devastating, often long-term, consequences. The immediate effects of divorce, such as hurt, anger and confusion, are evident in both children and adults. The longer-term effects are not so easy to pin point.Adults are usually able to articulate t....
Divorce and Children
Regardless of age, race, sex or religion, divorce has devastating,
often long-term, consequences. The immediate effects of divorce, such as
hurt, anger and confusion, are evident in both children and adults. The
longer-term effects are not so easy to pin point.Adults are usually able
to ....
Divorce...In a Christian Country
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page: Divorce . In a Christian Country
Approval Sheet
Preface
Acknowledgement
Dedication
Chapter I Problem and Procedure
a. Introduction
b. Statement of the problem
c. Scope and Limitation
d. Significance of the study
e. Statement of the procedure
f. Vocab....
Erik Erikson`s Psychosocial Theory
Erik Erikson
(1902-1994)
Psychosocial Theory
Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson was born in 1902 near Frankfurt, Germany. In 1920 instead of going to college he travelled throughout Europe as an n artist, keeping a diary of his experiences. ....
Feminist Criminology
Feminist Criminology
Criminology refers to any kind of study concerned with crime and criminal justice. It is a term used to include a multitude of topics and approaches. Feminist perspectives, over the past thirty years have not only put some new topics under the criminological cover, they....
Girls and Crime
What about girls? Stress, teenage mother hood, drug habits all those components needs survival skills. How do you keep those survival skills? Gangs, prostitution, abuse? To us juvenile delinquency is something that we look at it with disdain instead of taking the time to look into sociological issue....
Growth and Development From Infant To Adult
Chapters 9 & 10 Summarized
Chapter 9:
Developmental psychology is the study of how humans grow, develop, and change throughout their lifespan. There are several different aspects of developmental psychology depending on which area is analyzed. For example, some developmental psychologis....
hot rods
Many of those early hot rodders also wanted to show-up their wealthier cohorts; to prove to them that money wasnt the only way to gain automotive status. So, despite its emphasis on power and performance, a hot rod has also always been a social statement, having to do with self-reliance, ingenui....
Illicit Drug Use in Australian Youth
Illicit Drug Use in Australian Youth
Eileen Bergan
CRIM 11-100
Crime and Deviance in Australia
Bond University
In the past years, drug use has become a relatively common form of behavior for young people in Australia. Th....
Impact of Stability in the Family and Home on Violent Juvenile Convictions
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
Criminal Justice
Proposal for Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice
Sacred Heart University
The Impact of Stability in the Family and Home on Violent Juvenile Convictions
....
Is There a Problem with Crime statisitics
Many sociological studies of crime and deviance are based on a large extent on official statistics which are produced annually by the police, courts probation service and the Home Office. Official statistics offer a wide range of information such as the extent of crime in Britain and which sections....
Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer was a troubled young man. He proved this to the United States over the course of his life due to his murder spree in Milwaukee. Dahmer was an outcast as a child, and then he turned into a serial killer. Dahmer presented himself as a normal guy to the people around him, and nobody ....
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency
I am studying Criminal Justice, so I am doing my research on Juvenile Delinquency. My first search was threw Google. I visited a web site (www.agyp.org) I learned of The Andrew Youth Program. This program provides an alternative to incarceration that works. The ide....
Juvenile Delinquency
Children Behind Bars
When juveniles commit a crime an issue develops, did they know what they were doing and the effect it would have once the action was carried out? If an adult does not know what was going on in a juveniles mind, can they still be tried as an adult? These are the arguments that f....
Juveniles: Their Right to a speedy trial
The historic decision of the United States Supreme Court in In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967), did not address the availability of the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a right to a speedy trial, and no subsequent case has specifically ruled that such a right extends to children in delinquency proceedings i....
KB Home Corporation
KB Home Corporation
Rikki Grisso
Kristina Sanchez
Judi McMahon
Rosa Penaloza
Tony Grisso
University of Phoenix
ECONOMICS FOR BUSINESS I ECO/360
Group #: MU06BSM12
CHARLES MEYER
March 26, 2007
KB Home Corporation
Economic indicators allow analysis of economic performance and predic....
lolita subculture
Culture is a complex and often contested and ambiguous word to define, as Raymond Williams puts it "culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the english language."1 It has many debatable meanings due to the fact that it is not constant and is always changing being subject to the ....
Mandatory Physical Education
Mandatory Physical Education
Throughout the years, the fact that physical education is a required course for people in
kindergarten through their senior year in a high school has been a controversy. It is commonly argued that it should not be a required course because it has no academic value, bu....
Menace II Society Review
Directed by twin brothers, Allen and Albert Hughes, Menace II Society portrays the violent summer of 1993, as experienced by African-American men in the projects of Watts, California. This paper displays how Menace II Society portrays how the absence of a positive father figure in the lives....
Missouris Juvenile Justice System and Female Gang Members
Table of Contents
Abstract page 3
Mission Statement page 4
Profile and Risk Factors page 5
Corrections and Detention page 5
Secure Care Correctional Facilities page 5-6
Moderate Care Correctional Facilities page 6
Community Based Care Correctional Faciliti....
Modifying Disruptive Behavior in Classrooms
Educational psychology
Hannah Collins
02/24/05
Unit 2
Modifying Disruptive Behavior in Classrooms
An impediment to learning is behavioral dysfunction among students. All children are considered problematic from time to time; kids are sometimes obstinate and antagonistic due to being tired, ....
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
In Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, Kody Scott tells the true story of his life in the gangs. He committed his first murder at the tender age of eleven to get initiated in the Crips. There was no looking back for Kody after that day. There was an incident were he and some of his ....
My day in Court
Today December 23, 2008, is my day in court. Before we head off to court lets look at a brief history of Prescott and its courthouse. Back in 1864 Prescott was selected to be the State Capital. It held this title for only a short time, until 1887. The Prescott courthouse was built in 1916.
I deci....
New Jersey VS. T.L.O.
New Jersey vs. T.L.O.
The Supreme Court case of New Jersey vs. T.L.O. is a celebrated case from the
mid-1980s. A high school student claimed that a search conducted by the schools vice
principal, Mr. Choplick, was a violation of her fourth amendment right because he had
no warrant ....
Orphanages in the 1920's
Orphanages are known for being under-funded, dirty, and for having mean, hateful people running them. Famous examples are Oliver Twist, Anne of Green Gables, and Anne. Not many or very few orphanages were like those in the movies. The high number of orphanages in the 1920s was caused by three ....
Outside Factors Effect Neighborhoods
In the book by Silverman Rader, The World is a Text, the two "Neighborhood" pictures they chose are completely different (402). One picture depicts what has come to represent virtually every intercity in the United States; old, decrepit, multi-family, multi-story, public housing units. ....
Parents And What They Create
Parents, we come in all shapes and sizes. We each have our own parenting style. Many parents create their style from a combination of factors. It is largely based on one's own parents and culture. In the early 1960's, it was determined that there are four main types of parents. This is based o....
poverty
Most Americans are insulted from the poor; it is hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Poverty is something that not only effects adults, but children as well. When we think of poverty in America what is....
Punishment As A Form to Control Ambiguous Behaviour And The Unpleasant Effects
Countless and timeless researches have been done based on the multiple facts of punishment. Advantages and disadvantages linger as a result on the use of punishment to control ambiguous behaviour. The main reason of punishment is to relate with wrongdoers in relevance to their mistakes and what they....
Raise and Fall of New Century Financial
Introduction
The American specialist of risky mortgages, New Century Financial Corporation, has filed for bankruptcy and is now under protection of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Court. The second-largest provider of home loans to high-risk borrowers (subprime) in the US collapsed amid rising delinqu....
Rehab for Criminals
Prison inmates, are some of the most "maladjusted" people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are "at war with themselves as well as with society" (Szumski 20). Most inmates did not le....
Rehabilitation of Criminals in America
Prison inmates, are some of the most maladjusted people in society. Most of the inmates havehad too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They are veryinsecure and are at war with themselves as well as with society (Szumski 20). Most inmates did notlearn ....
Relationships between Alcohol, Tobacco and Illicit Drug Use among Young Adults
Abstract
It is widely assumed that alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs are all related, and that using one drug might lead to using another. These findings lead to the following hypothesis: as each drug use increases, the others will increase. In more specific terms: as the use of o....
Risk factors affecting the performance of our students in our school system?
There is an old saying that, the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race. However, in order for society to advance and win this race, it is vital that our students be educated because in toda....
Risk factors affecting the performance of our students in our school systems
There is an old saying that, the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race. However, in order for society to advance and win this race, it is vital that our students be educated because in toda....
School Safety - Many do not feel safe
The functional theory of social stratification states that the major function of school is to develop, sort, and select individuals by ability levels to fulfill hierarchal positions. However, according to Bowles & Gintis 1976, there are concerns such as social class background and school violence t....
School safety is a key concern for parents, students, and school officials alike.
There is an old saying that, the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race. However, in order for society to advance and win this race, it is vital that our students be educated because in toda....
School Uniforms, Setting Solid Ground for Education
Monique LaNoue-Warden
Dr. Wiltse
English 1023
17 February 2005
School Uniforms, Setting Solid Ground for Education
When it comes to school uniforms, opinions abound on what children should wear. It is not just the fashion conscious who have strong feelings about school uniforms. Teachers, Prin....
Sir Robert Peel
The early roots of policing encircling Sir Robert Peel's nine values have a different application to modern day policing. Before the law enforcement in America by Peel, law enforcement in America had primarily been in the authority of civilians and volunteers. It was essentially unplanned, and info....
Spanking
Spanking
Were you spanked as a child? Do you think spanking effected you? Every parent has been in a situation where a good spanking seems like the only way to put an end to little Juniors temper tantrum. Parents use a number to reasons, some you may have heard, to use spanking as a f....
Sports and Socialization
I had originally intended to construct a term paper on Nightlife, but turns out I had insufficient information on the subject. This paper will be done on Sport and leisure, as well as how they affect society. Sport and leisure both play a major part in the social life of the community. People of al....
Strain Theory
The Strain Theory argues that people who commit crimes, have basically the same values as everyone else, among these values is an emphasis on achievement and success. According to this theory, the opportunities for the achievement of success are greatly restricted for people in the lower class. Be....
teen violence
Adolescence is a gold mine for anyone prospecting for
perpetrators and victims of violence. But just why the teenage years are fertile ground for violence is tougher to pin down. That's the sobering message of a recent study by a RAND research team. The report, "Stopping Violence before It Starts,....
The Rich and the Poor Just Need More
Many Americans today would argue that the current poverty rate is an overwhelming amount of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau states that the official poverty rate in 2005 was 12.6 percent(1).Poverty is measured by the government by comparing the poverty threshold income and actual income o....
To Corporal Punish or Not to Corporal Punish
To Corporal Punish or Not to Corporal Punish
Today many different people such as doctors, scientists, and even parents, are wondering if corporal punishment, spanking in this instance, leads to a violent society. So much involvement in finding out the answer is due to the raising crime rate in m....
To Defend Conservatives
People always say that “No one who has a heart can resist being a liberal, and no one who has a brain can avoid being a conservative.” Whatever side we take will greatly determine how we look at life and how we live our lives. Most people in America want to live in a society that is pre....
Tobacco
Tobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States. Nicotine, which is an alkaloid derived from the tobacco plant, is a potent chemical that has powerful effects on the human body, especially when administered rapidly or at high doses. Prenatal exposure to nicotine is as....
Trying and Sentencing Juveniles as Adults
Katy Foley
Scott Bendig
Juvenile Delinquency
December 5, 2006
In our society today, many images of youngsters in handcuffs and prison uniforms are becoming more common in the nightly news. As Americas interests with crime and justice have grown, so has the attention to different ways in w....
Violence - men are more violent than women
Thai 1
Violence refers to acts of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause criminal injury or harm to persons, and to a lesser extent animals and property. The term violence also connotes an aggressive tendency to act out destructive behaviors (Wikipedia). According to the article "T....
Young People As A Social Problem
In the wake of the alarming rate of juvenile delinquency and the accumulating cases of teenage suicide since the mid 90's, it's not surprising to see that the majority started to accuse young people as a source of social problem. Nowadays, some may even consider young people as a group of easily-agi....
Youth Crime and Punishment
Young children committing rapes, murders, and other adult crimes dont seem so shocking in todays society. Kids seem to be committing crimes at a younger age and more often, or is the media just broadcasting these crimes more today? There are two parties constantly battling this issue and what to....
Youth Drug Abuse
Introduction
The use of drugs has become an epidemic all over the world. Its use is increasing at a very fast rate, risking the lives of millions of people from different races, cultures, and countries. The drug use has begun to reflect socially and culturally. Though more public money is spent on ....
Youth Involvement in Gangs
Although some may argue that gang activity and youth involvement has grown exponentially through the years, it has been an ongoing epidemic for decades. Methods, levels of violence, rules, and motivations may have changed over the years, but the basic infrastructure has remained the same. The earlie....
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