Sociological Theories Response By: Angie A. Smith CJS/240 November 19‚ 2010 University of Phoenix The “Fight Crime” program coincides with the social structure theory as it uses a numerous of approaches that prevents juvenile crime. This program consists of 3‚000 police chiefs‚ sheriffs‚ prosecutors and other law enforcement agents as well as victims that is educating society on how to deal with and prevent any criminal activities. Fight Crimes offer many school programs
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Strategies Literature Review for Bridging the Gap Substance abuse today is a widespread problem for youth as a whole‚ and presents an especially important challenge for those involved in the juvenile justice system. To help inform research related to substance abuse treatment in the juvenile justice system‚ we conducted a 10-year literature review guided by the framework of the 9 key elements to effective adolescent substance abuse treatment identified by Drug Strategies in Treating Teens:
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Juvenile Justice And The effects on Children of Incarcerated Parents Loretta R. Lynch Capstone 480 Ms. Mel Jones Abstract Today prisons are overcrowded and over two million Americans‚ male‚ and female are sitting in jail or prison‚ and two thirds of those people incarcerated are parents (U.S. Department of Justice). Approximately two million of these children are separated from their mom or dad because of incarceration of which these are the custodial parent. These children suffer from poverty
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among young people. The lack of responsibilities and status‚ and the search for excitement and peer-group status‚ mean that many young people drift into minor acts of delinquency and clashes with the law. Peer-group pressure may also give young people the confidence and encouragement to involve themselves in minor acts of delinquency‚ which they would not engage in on their own. This problem of status frustration affects all young people‚ and explains why many of
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My concerned issue is juvenile delinquency. The reason I choose juvenile delinquency is because I felt it can be explained well by looking at the social learning theory. According to Siegel & Welsh (2012) social learning theory is applied to criminal behavior‚ theory stressing the importance of learning through modeling others who are criminal; criminal behavior is a function of copying or learning criminal conduct from others. The social learning theory argues that juveniles imitate what they see
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Diversion This paper will focus on two diversion programs operating in Florida to help reduce juvenile crime. According to USLegal‚ Inc. (2012)‚ “diversion refers to diverting a defendant out if the criminal justice system by having them complete a diversion program rather than be incarcerated or serve another alternative sentence” (para. 1). The major causes of juvenile delinquent behavior and reason(s) a juvenile may be put into a diversion program. An overview of each program’s major goals‚ objectives
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became complicated to such an extent that the government has nearly failed to deal with this problem. What can be done to help these juvenile deliquents turn away from crime and what extend they must be treated by tough measures that strict punishments is a controversial issue for governments . Juvenile delinquency is both an immediate and long-term problem. Even juvenile delinquents who start off with misdemeanors or petty offenses can perpetrate much more serious criminal acts. Dispite of the promise
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could possibly cut down on the rate of missing children‚ combat juvenile delinquency‚ and ultimately keep teenager at home so they can form a bond with their parents during the most emotional time of their lives. Washington 2 A missing child is always a touchy subject. When hearing about a missing child
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The Mazengarb report was a product of its time – produced in response to a moral panic‚ where youth delinquency‚ sexual experimentation‚ newfound international influence and a shift in the family and social dynamics were creating instability and insecurity in society; the Mazengarb report was a poorly handled government investigation which fuelled the social panic in a time referred to as “The golden years”. The report itself had very immediate consequences‚ with new legislation being rushed through
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Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems. Juvenile delinquency is also increasing as reported by World Youth Report‚ 2003. In fact‚ in many Western European countries‚ from the 80s to the 90s‚ statistics show that there is a significant increase in juvenile delinquency rate from 50% to 100%. Moreover‚ although delinquency is universal‚ study has shown that there are different contributing factors to delinquency among different regions. For example‚ in Africa‚ the main cause
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