Author: Patrick GriffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal liability
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Developing and Administering Accountability-based Sanctions for Juveniles
Author: Patrick GriffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal liability
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Developing and Administering Accountability-based Sanctions for Juveniles
Author: Patrick GriffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal liability
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
An Overview of the JAIBG Program
Author: Cecilia DuquelaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Reforming Juvenile Justice
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309278937
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Best practices in juvenile accountability
Author: Marty BeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : At-risk youth
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Developing and Administering Accountability-based Sanctions for Juveniles
Author: Patrick GriffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal liability
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Code of Federal Regulations
Author: The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1999: Justification of the budget estimates, Department of Justice
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2468
Book Description
Juvenile Crime
Author: Lawrence V. MoorePublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590336991
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Criminal justice professionals and the media have noted the rise of juvenile crime rates nationwide and a growing surge in youth violence. This in turn has highlighted the debate over juvenile transfers to adult courts. Proponents of treating violent juvenile offenders as adults argue that juvenile offenders should be held accountable and receive punishment that is appropriate to the seriousness of their offences and that society must be protected by their removal from law abiding communities. They urge that young offenders must be held accountable for both lesser and more serious crimes, especially when the former offences, if unpunished, may lead offenders to commit the latter. Opponents of treating violent juveniles offenders as adults argue that harsh punishment of juvenile offenders is counterproductive, creating recidivism. Their contention is that youths who are committing crimes should still be tried in juvenile courts rather than adult courts, for a greater effect. This informative book presents all the current issues, problems, ideas, as well as some background on the controversies surrounding juvenile crime.