How should a juvenile criminal be prosecuted? ... In most informal case, they not need to appear in front of the court, because the probation department is able to directly impose needed sanctions. ... If passed, prop 21 will incarcerate many juveniles with top-notch criminals. ... Without treatment and education, the only thing a juvenile can learn while incarcerated with adult criminals, is how to become a better criminal. ... Adult criminals will then take advantage of these teenagers. ...

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Crime is usually defined simply as a violation of the criminal law. ... Crime & deviance are overlapping in categories because criminal acts are often viewed as deviant acts. ... There are many different types of deviance, there is criminal and non-criminal. ... The sanctions are usually small fines. ... (Croall H 1992) Marxist criminals are simply a member of the oppressed proletariat. ...

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Some of us may have been sanctioned informally or formally. A behavior that is usually sanctioned negatively or positively is the use of illegal drugs. ... developed by Edwin Sutherland, differential association theory was originally formulated in terms of general criminal behavior, but it has been widely applied to adolescent delinquency and substance use?...

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