Introduction Juvenile crime, particularly gang related crime, has Californians up in arms. In response to increasing gang related crimes, California voters overwhelmingly passed proposition 21 (Juvenile Crime Initiative). ... In response to increased juvenile crime, particularly violent crime, several states have enacted new programs and laws that place a greater emphasis on public safety, and imposes tougher sentences for violent juvenile crime. ... These children are doing adult time for their crimes along side more than 5,000 adult male felons. Their crimes include murder, rape, robbery and...

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Juvenile crime has always been so serious issue in many countries. ... There could be many reasons why juveniles commit crime but generally there are two main reasons which are psychological and family based. ... The second aspect about juvenile crime is personality traits. ... To sum up, for the aforementioned two reasons which are psychological and family based juvenile delinquency, there is no doubt that juvenile delinquency is a critical issue for many countries. ... Furthermore, in the light of previous researches, family based problems such as mother-child attachment and parental viole...

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The severity of juvenile crimes has vastly increased from petty theft and vandalism to felonies. I think that because of television and the Internet, the parents inattentiveness, and our culture and society is why there has been such an increase in juvenile crime. ... JuliS34: I think that the internet and television has taught children how to be violent and it is easy access to find out anything and everything about crimes. ... Shows that I grew up watching like Tom and Jerry and the Road Runner is based on the two characters trying to kill each other. ... I also think that our culture has...

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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HOW MEDIA COVERAGE OF CRIME EFFECTS CITIZNES VIEWS ON, AND FEARS OF CRIME Car-jackings and home invasions show that crime is out of control; that the crime rate is up; and violent crime is on the increase; these are all contemporary ways of expressing what is becoming an everyday fear about crime. ... The crime reports provided by the police demonstrate numerous examples of crimes between strangers, crimes in public places, and crimes specific to age. ... The concern about crime is up, yet based on citizen's own reports of victimization, the experts can find no ...

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In fact, it has been proven that rehabilitation and community-based programs have had a positive influence on the future course of juveniles in trouble, especially first-time offenders. ... The statistics of juvenile crime are alarming. The is no dancing around the fact that the youth of America are commiting more crimes every year. Juvenile offenders should be punished more severely to deter other teenagers from committing crimes. ... Stronger punishments would cause less crimes make society a better place. ...

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Crimes are now easier to commit Crimes are easier to commit in this day and age. ... Within my research, the authors are taking their views on punishment fitting the crime to the extremes. ... Judges are becoming more and more bias to color and gender of a person rather than the crime he or she commits. ... Violent crimes deserve "eye for an eye". 30 March 1995 The author of this article wants the public to know that he believes that if someone commits a crime of violence that they should receive the same. ... The author uses a very opinionated base to let the public know how ...

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- Sufficient punishment is an attractive choice to prevent crime. ... Auguste Comte (1798-1857), of France as the founder of Sociology, commented by his studies while imprisoned that people pass through stages that can be grouped based on how they try to understand the world in which they live. ... Durkheim (1858-1917) indicated that crime is linked to the differences within the society. ... Crime to Durkheim is beneficial because if calls attention to social ills. ... Thus anomie occurs, which lures individual to crime and deviance. ...

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A person who commits a crime should have to pay for the consequences. ... " (Two concepts if rules by John Rawls page 5) If we consider the job of a judge, they must sentence criminals to a certain punishment based on the crime they committed. ... Such judge has punished a criminal based on a utilitarian justification of the legal punishment of such crime. ... While in a retributivist justification we consider the punishment of a crime to be punished based on severity. ... No crime should ever go un-punished. ...

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Psychological ideas about reasons criminals do what they do is based upon the main aspects of personality, id, ego, and super ego. ... Nature theories assert that the etiology of criminal behavior is biologically based in genetic inheritance and the structure and functions of people's brains and other psychological responses. ... Hans Eysenck created a theory about personality links to crime. ... Durkheim believed that crime was an inescapable fact of society and advocated maintaining crime within rational boundaries. ... Crime will rise in situations of high diverse labor unions. ...

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The evaluation will be outcomes-based and will examine the progress of potential, current, and past members of the program over a period of time. ... It is also assumed that many criminals commit crimes in order to gain financial stability. ... In order to keep the attention of the youth, the foundation of the program will be recreation based. ... Since most of the program's activities will be recreation based, this building is the greatest asset to the program. ... The data to be collected should show a ratio of teens convicted of crimes with teens that have not been convicted of ...

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Classical school deals with the crime using punishments and deterrence actions. ... While classical school believes people commit crime on their own free will well aware of their own actions and "people are nature self seeking and liable to commit a crime ", Positivists school believes that the person that is committing the crime is outside of the persons control. This means that it is based off the persons physical characteristics. ... In closing, both these schools agreed that a majority of the crimes committed can be explained as caused by human nature, also both schools deal with predicti...

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Not only is capital punishment a deterrence to a crime, it is our responsibility to assure that murderers will not murder again. ... Deterrence is based on the fact that the threat of punishment will discourage people from committing a crime. ... To say that capital punishment would not be a deterrent to crime is like saying that people are not afraid of death. ... The basis of punishment is to make one pay for the crime they commit. ... It works as deterrence to crime, as well as fulfilling our duty to punish someone for their sin. ...

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Not only is capital punishment a deterrence to a crime, it is our responsibility to assure that murderers will not murder again. ... Deterrence is based on the fact that the threat of punishment will discourage people from committing a crime. ... To say that capital punishment would not be a deterrent to crime is like saying that people are not afraid of death. ... The basis of punishment is to make one pay for the crime they commit. ... It works as deterrence to crime, as well as fulfilling our duty to punish someone for their sin. ...

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The justice model follows the notion that the punishment given out for a crime should be proportionate to the crime committed. The welfare approach is a care based approach and concentrates on factors, which lead a young person to commit crime. It mainly focuses on the offender's needs, rather than the punishment for the crime and it deals with eliminating those needy problems. This essay will describe both of these approaches, their features, their application in the juvenile justice system and lastly suggesting the best approach to deal with youth crime. ...

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The retributive theory looks back to the crime and punishes because of the crime. ... Although, there are two main advantages to desert based punishment. ... When a specific crime is on the increase or attracted much publicity, then exemplary sentences may be imposed to attempt to prevent that particular crime. ... They will go on committing crimes as long as they are able to do so. ... Thus, not only can it be seen as punishing the offender for past crimes, but it seeks to punish for crimes yet to be committed. ...

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I believe that this is the best way to discourage the continuance of underage crime. ... This technicality is an unfortunate part of our justice system that can allow young criminals freedom based solely because they are under a certain age. ... He had begun his crime spree at age 11. 1 Conversely not all children are deserving of the harshest of punishments for the crimes that they commit. These are the lesser crimes that juveniles commit such as thievery, burglary, etc. ... If children are allowed to run wild committing crimes and receiving only slaps on the wrists then they will gro...

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Healing the Pain of Crime The American justice system has viewed criminal behavior as a crime against "the state," leaving crime victims with no input into the legal process of the administration of justice in today's courts. Restorative justice today recognizes the act of crime as being directed against individual people. Restorative justice is based on resolving conflict and making everything connected to the crime "whole again", thus healing the effects, restoring back to original condition, and making amends to all affected by the crime. ... Family group conferencing is based on th...

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Since 1970 juvenile arrests have increased in every serious crime and female juvenile crime has also risen. Official records indicate that most of juvenile crime is group or gang related. ... What is causing the causes of juvenile crime? ... Many theories believe that children from disadvantaged families also commit more crimes, although children from affluent homes also commit crimes. ... There is another program that is called Community Based Juvenile Justice which is a joining of schools, police. ...

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Everyday Americans try to deal with the crime problem in many ways. ... It is said that on average, 15 future crimes are eliminated for each additional prisoner locked up. ... Singapore, which can be found in Malaysia, has the lowest crime rate in the world. ... The judge or jury makes their decision on the jail/prison sentence and the canning sentence based on the severity of the crime and the criminals record. ... Everyday Americans deal with crime, and something has to be done about it. ...

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But his real life of crime began when his parents divorced. ... Abagnale's most famous crime was impersonating a Pan Am pilot for two years. ... At this level, the pre conventional level, moral reasoning is based on avoiding punishment. ... The Learning Theory is based upon the principles of behavioral psychology. ... This theory states that crime is learned behavior. ...

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In recent years more and more young people are turning to crime. These crimes are being committed by young offenders of all ages. The crimes are getting more serious and in the last five years the percentage of youngsters committing crime has increased more than fifty percent. There have been many reasons proposed to explain youth crime. ... Eysenk (1977) argues that there is link between genetically based personality characteristics and criminal behaviour. ...

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Methvin noted that placing police in high crime areas will definitely deter crime. ... Subway crime was cut by two-thirds and riders returned by the thousands. ... Because punishments for crimes are not consistent, they continue to commit crimes. ... In no way, form, or fashion will "three strikes" reduce crime. ... The U.S. court systems enact punishments based on circumstances of the case. ...

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Deterrence is based on the logical notion that being punished for criminal activity will make people fearful so that they will not want to commit crimes. ... - The former punishes an offender with the specific intent of instilling fear in that individual so that he or she will not commit future crimes... - The latter punishment attempt to instill fear in society in general so that the rest of us will not want to commit crimes. ... Rehabilitation is aimed at eliminating the causes of crime by making the offender "better" restoring him or her to a healthy conditio...

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This exposure would provide the information that he would base his research on in the latter part of his career. ... This research was based much information and on many factors, from epilepsy to the circumference of the brain. ... However these traits in the modern world would drive these same people to commit crimes. ... During the same time Lombroso was working on his atavistic theory, psychology and psychiatry were demonstrating the relationship between crime epilepsy, and crime and insanity. ... Lombroso did not disagree with the classical school that most crime could be explained thro...

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To be able to do something about juvenile crime it is important to know when, why and how the youths started committing crimes. ... It has been during our current thirty year crime wave that we have seen the number of juveniles incarcerated, on probation or parole or in alternative programs like wilderness and boot camps, community based school or work release programs increase to nearly one million under supervision (Abruzzese 1). ... It is important to note that the majority of juveniles arrested in America are arrested for property crimes and other less serious offenses-not crimes of violen...

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