These facts lead one to believe that the criminal justice system must not only focus on employing a proper number of people, but also must direct their attention toward the causes of crime. ... In order to develop methods to decrease delinquent behavior the school systems must take a fraction of the responsibility and experiment with new methods of discipline. ... The proper social programs are essential in aiding those who are less fortunate as well as providing means to access employment. ... There is no guarantee that exposing families to proper discipline methods would actually change t...

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Even if a juvenile is transferred to criminal court, he or she is likely to spend only a fraction of the given sentence. ... The rising juvenile crime rate is causing the public to be at outrage with the system for letting these crimes be committed without proper sentencing. ...

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Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. This type of regulation, requiring a mandatory consequence for a predetermined act, is known in the educational realm as a zero tolerance policy. Since 1994, schools throughou...

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