system addressing the categories of offenses, and the role and jurisdiction of the juvenile court in the handling of status offenders. Analysis The problems of youth in modern society are a major national concern especially when they are linked to juvenile delinquency or criminal behavior committed by minors. More than 1.1 million youths are arrested annually for crimes ranging in seriousness from loitering to murder. Though most juvenile law violations are minor, some young offenders are extremely dangerous
Criminology A. Criminology is the study of crime and criminal behavior, mainly concentrates on the forms of criminal behavior, the causation and definition of criminality, and the type of reaction society has in relation to such criminal activity. It is concerned with the “analysis of the phenomena of crime and criminality, performing scientifically accurate studies, and developing sound theoretical explanations of crime and criminal behavior (1)” a. Crime is defined as the act or omission of an act
low-income areas are predisposed to getting arrested for various crimes. I am studying this in order to help readers better understand disparities in arrest rates between communities of different economic standing. Secondly, I hope for this study to stimulate further discourse on the socioeconomic factors that can influence an individual’s chance of facing police apprehension. This is important, because to comprehensively and efficiently address crime in low-income communities, we must first be cognizant of
groups during the seventies and eighties demanded a change in the American justice system. Reform picked up momentum when the article “Broken Windows” written by police scholars Wilson and Kelling and another article by Goldstein. In, 1994 The Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act was passed and the Community Oriented Policing Services Program (COPS) was created. This program propelled Community and Problem-Oriented Policing to the forefront for a new era in American police departments. COPS was established
of Medicine (IOM) reported that between 2005 and 2010, 1.4 million guns were stolen from US homes during property crimes, in burglaries and car theft. Ian Ayres, JD, PhD, and John J. Donohue, JD, PhD, Professors of Law at Yale Law School and Stanford Law School stated that “Even if the gun owner had a permit to carry a concealed weapon and would never use it in furtherance of a crime, is it likely that the same can be said for the burglar who steals the gun?" Some civilians own military-grade firearms
people will continue to commit those crimes by choice. Beccaria also believed that all individuals possess a free will and people use free will to make rational decisions. In Beccaria’s opinion people weigh the benefits of an action and the cost of that action in order to choose how to move forward with the decision. We as humans use free will on a daily basis to make rational decisions, such as whether or not what we believe are worth the risk committing a crime. In Beccaria’s view rather than seeking
unique in that the justice and treatment systems work together to help offenders. To be considered for drug court treatment one must be a nonviolent offender who has committed a drug or drug-related crime. Studies show that drug courts do work in many ways to help its graduates reduce drug use and crime, and helps restore the
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) addresses the various systems that play a part in the developmental trajectory of conduct disorder (CD). The theoretical underpinnings of MST’s approach to treatment are rooted in Bronfenbrenner’s social ecology theory. At a foundational level, MST takes an equifinal approach that addresses the transactional nature of the systems at play—microsystem, exosystem, macrosystem, mesosystem, and chronosystem—in externalizing disorders. MST utilizes a variety of interventions