Juvenile delinquency in the United States

Columbine. Some used to remember this as normal place to go to school. Now it’s remembered as the chain reaction of school shootings. Many students here weren't born before this terrible incident on April 20, 1999. It was a normal day at Columbine High School in Colorado when two bullied students decided they’d had enough, and went to shoot up the school. The the two students made a tape describing how they hated the bullies at their school and wanted revenge. Their names were Eric Harris and…

When we think of a child, we imagine the child playing happily, living life to the fullest. Now, when we hear the word abuse, right away we think of woman abuse instead of child abuse. Under the laws of the United States, anyone under eighteen is considered a minor or in other words a child, which then divides into categories by age range. But what is child abuse, and how is it involved with criminal justice? Child abuse is, “child maltreatment, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional…

The main issue being faced was, “Whether evidence unlawfully seized by a school official – without involvement of law enforcement officials – should be allowed in as evidence at juvenile delinquency proceedings” (UScourts). In other words, does the exclusionary rule apply to school officials conducting searches in public schools? The Supreme Court ruled that it does, but they sided with New Jersey 6-3. “The Court reasoned, though, that…

Introduction It has been long stated by civil liberty advocate groups that there is disparity in the representing of indigent defendants versus those of higher economic standings. This statement is also prevalent in the criminal justice arena as well. A long standing issue in the criminal justice field has been the concern that most guilty verdicts are not determined by the facts presented during the trials, but by the financial inability of the defendant. This research will use the findings…

psychiatrist by the name of Fredrick Wertham published a very influential book titled, Seduction of the Innocent. It was so influential that Carol L. Tilley described it as a “historical and cultural touchstones of the anticomics movement in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s” (Tilley, 2012, p.383). This is a polarized stance, one that Tilley is determined to defend. When Wertham published his book, it was revealed as a masterpiece by parents, authors, and even the New York Times. It…

awareness in action, communication and appropriateness and also explore the interface between congruence and the other conditions of therapeutic personality change. Rogers (1990a) describes six necessary conditions such as psychological contact, the state of the client, unconditional positive regard. empathic understanding, the client's perception and the characteristic of presence. In conclusion, the author have reconsidered congruence as a way of being in process and as skills which we can…

General Strain Theory Wilson Sele California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) May 29, 2018 General Strain Theory The school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the recent school shootings of 2018 in the United States. The shooting claimed at least 17 people, 14 were students and three members of staff. The shooting was termed as the most deadly school massacres in the last decade. The suspect was identified by the witnesses and…

How did advances in technology and the development of the market contribute to new varieties of youth culture? Affluence combined with other crucial demographic, technological, ideological and institutional factors led to new varieties of youth culture. The youth of the 1960s were generally conformist and apolitical. Young people were at a stage in their life where they were most motivated to construct identities, to forge new social groupings and to negotiate alternatives. They had chosen…

71). Some states are taking initiatives to reduce their prison population by creating comprehensive release programs. These programs allow non-violent inmates to serve only a portion of their sentence in prison while the other portion is served in the community (Henrichson, 2013, p. 73). Other states have shortened the length of the prison sentences, thus reducing the prison population, which will reduce…

According to the Child Abuse Prevention Treatment Act, child maltreatment is defined as “the physical or mental injury, sexual abuse, negligent treatment, or maltreatment of a child under the age of 18 by a person who is responsible for the child’s welfare under circumstances which indicate the child’s health or welfare is harmed or threatened thereby” (Watkins and Bradbard 1982). Maltreatment is a function of parental stress and frustration (Watkins and Bradbard 1982); stress and frustration…