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    bullying prevention program available today’ (p.2). The program has been researched for over thirty-five years and has seen successful implementation all over the world. The report states that school administrators‚ teachers‚ and other staff members are responsible for implementing the program. OBPP targets all students five to fifteen years old‚ but has individual interventions for victims and bullies (Hazelden Foundation‚ 2007). As noted by the Hazelden Foundation (2007)‚ the program is not

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    Juvenile Boot Camp Veronica. Y. Barnes Grambling State University 2014 Problem of Objective Juvenile misconduct may have something to do with the mental state of the child which causes the behavior to be disruptive. Reformation programs have focused on ways to treat juveniles with mental health needs and substance use disorders

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    Colorado Technical University Online CJUS285-1302A-01 Juvenile Delinquency Phase 1- Individual Project Professor Grace Mickles Obaid Rahman April 15‚ 2013 There are many advantages of the taxpayer and the juveniles to split the juvenile courts into two sections because it will benefit taxpayer and juveniles by splitting into sections. By doing that status offenders will get more help and treat as a minor crime offender‚ which they don’t in a joint section. Status offenders are treated unfairly

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    Adolescent Delinquency Throughout the course of the progressive era significant legislations helped to control the growing urban society. Austin et al. claim that the establishment of a juvenile justice system is “one of the most progressive developments in the evolution of criminal justice in the United States” (4). Influenced by the children’s welfare‚ the juvenile law adopted the English doctrine parens patriate which gave states the authority to assume the role of a parent (Soulier & Scott 138)

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    A juvenile is a youth who is at or below the upper age of original jurisdiction in their resident state. In the Juvenile Justice System‚ their age range is from 0 -7‚ 7 – 14‚ and 14 – 21 which it’s called the three 7’s‚ Juvenile has a separated system to determine whether they are to be prosecuted as an adult or a minor‚ depended on the delinquency they had committed. The Juvenile System that they go by is the status offenses and delinquent‚ because of those it also separates the conviction for

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    aggressive thoughts than the people who played non-violent games. We live in a world where real violence is everywhere‚ from neighborhood shootings to the war in Iraq. We’re mostly helpless to stop it‚ and we just have to live through it‚ but when a juvenile turns on a violent video game and spends endless hours playing does it change their perception of the real world and cause them to become delinquent. Many things can cause an inability to distinguish right from wrong‚ reality from fiction. A teen

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    relationship between risk factors and juvenile delinquency are social learning theory and social control theory. Social learning theory explains how families‚ schools‚ peers‚ and communities can influence delinquent behavior. According to Bandura (1977)‚ risk factors can influence delinquent behaviors‚ especially if children are exposed to negative stimuli and antisocial peers (p. 192). Association with delinquent peers increase the likelihood of delinquency‚ physical aggression‚ drug use‚ gang affiliation

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    the child figure thus occupies an ambiguous liminal space “that threatens as it unites ideas of domesticity” (Olson 6). ] Wetmore in his article‚ “Psycho without a cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema” compellingly argues that Psycho has many tropes common/characteristic of a juvenile delinquency or JD film. Hitchcock’s films abound with “dangerous children” (Wetmore 219) masquerading

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    Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crimes Not long ago‚ juveniles were expected to behave and act as any adult would. This extended to obeying laws where juveniles were viewed as adults and were subject to the same rules and regulations as adults. There was no separation of juvenile crime and adult crime and the law made no distinction based on the age of the offender. Whoever committed a crime‚ regardless of age‚ were given a certain consequence for their actions. It wasn’t until the 1900’s when the

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    Running head: DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION Drug Abuse Prevention Programs: Effectiveness of DARE and Project ALERT Drug Abuse Prevention Programs: Effectiveness of DARE and Project ALERT Although drug use among secondary school students appears to have leveled off during the late 1990s‚ US adolescents continue to use alcohol‚ tobacco‚ and marijuana at unacceptably high rates. Among eighth graders‚ 52% have tried alcohol‚ 41% have tried cigarettes‚ and 20% have tried marijuana. By 12th grade these rates

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