Essays Tagged: "delinquents"

Childhood Delinquence. Definition, the extent, causes, and what has been done to deal with the problem

uency laws were designed to provide treatment, rather than punishment, forjuvenile offenders. Young delinquents usually are sent to juvenile courts, where the mainaim is to rehabilitate offenders, rat ... ities, the police may refer such children to ajuvenile court, where they may officially be declared delinquents. Crime statistics,though they are often incomplete and may be misleading, do give an ind ...

(4 pages) 187 0 3.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Juvenile delinquency, the extent, some suggestions on what it's caused by, and what is being done in various communities to deal with this growing problem

uency laws were designed to provide treatment, rather than punishment, forjuvenile offenders. Young delinquents usually are sent to juvenile courts, where the mainaim is to rehabilitate offenders, rat ... ities, the police may refer such children to ajuvenile court, where they may officially be declared delinquents. Crime statistics,though they are often incomplete and may be misleading, do give an ind ...

(4 pages) 293 2 3.8 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Juvenile Delinquency

ency laws were designed to provide treatment, rather than punishment, for juvenile offenders. Young delinquents are usually sent to juvenile courts, where the main aim is to rehabilitate offenders, ra ... ies, the police may refer such children to a juvenile court, where they may officially be declared "delinquents."Crime statistics, though they are often incomplete and may be misleading, do give an in ...

(4 pages) 200 1 1.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Myths of the Juvenile Superpredator: Myth vs Fact.

is, or soon will be, bombarded with a generation of violent, apathetic, and unremorseful adolescent delinquents (Kappeler, Blumberg, & Potter, 2000, p.175). Kappeler, Blumberg, and Potter refer to th ...

(8 pages) 77 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

"To Sir, With Love": A Bravura Performance

gh East End. But the refined and cool-headed gentleman is not prepared for the rowdy group of dirty delinquents he meets on his first day of class. For many of these teenagers, school is just a break ...

(3 pages) 41 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Analysis of The House On Mango Street by Sanda Cisneros

nt than Esperanza's reality lived during her days at the little house on Mango Street.Surrounded by delinquents, dirty old men, and bad influences, Esperanza lives with her poor Mexican family. She ad ...

(4 pages) 112 1 4.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

NEDS

The word "Ned" itself actually stands for Non-Educated Delinquent. However, not all non-educated delinquents are Ned's. Ned's are always working class, always non-educated and always poor. Howeve ...

(4 pages) 57 2 4.6 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

"Juveniles' delinquency in the United Arab Emirates" OMAR ALALI 2005

rs in the U.A.E. According to the ministry of interior's statistics (2004), the rates of juveniles' delinquents have increased by 1376% between 1977 and 2003.Many societies worldwide are becoming more ... lso their thoughts and behavior are defined. Furthermore, there is a strong link between juveniles' delinquents, growth process and the styles of social upbringing. For this reason, incomprehension of ...

(21 pages) 114 0 2.5 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The Bastille became the focus of the opening of the French Revolution. Why?

rs but generally held only two classes of people: writers whose work was considered treasonous, and delinquents whose families requested they be put away (the infamous Marquis de Sade was one such pri ...

(5 pages) 26 1 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution

Hirschi's control theory in relation to car theft.

irschi, strong social bonds with conventional people and institutions prevent delinquent behaviour. Delinquents never develop such bonds and are unable to develop strong attachments or relationships w ...

(4 pages) 81 0 3.8 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

What do the texts you have studied have to say about the positive and/or negative effects of institutions?

negative effects that are brought about through the institution. The institution aims to reform the delinquents in order to make them fully functional and productive members of society. We witness the ...

(5 pages) 51 0 5.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Gang vs. club

e dictionary definition of gang is "a group of adolescents who band together, especially a group of delinquents." The definition of club is "a group of people organized for a common purpose, especiall ... apparent as the dictionary also conceives the word "gang" negatively by defining it as "a group of delinquents."In contrast to the connotation of the word "gang," the term "club" is viewed positively ...

(3 pages) 24 0 4.6 Sep/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Evil Teacher

urned around, her face turning blood red, she silenced are laughing by booming, "Shut up you little delinquents! All I try to do is teach you Language Arts., but your puny minds must not be able to co ...

(3 pages) 10 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Bah Bah Black Sheep

d show the brighter side of teenage life.Mainly the media shows teens as a lazy group of pot-headed delinquents who have no inhibitions in life. Television has taken a few stereotypes and transformed ...

(3 pages) 1037 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Analyzing Atwood's "The Female Body" and Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"

n opinion, emphasizing ideas such as women being portrayed as common housewives, objects, emotional delinquents, and submissive individuals. The similarities include both authors has their own distinc ...

(4 pages) 31 0 0.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Decompression Treatment

d explain that there were limitations to their results, including the small sample size of only ten delinquents; as well as the fact that their participants were already drawn from a specialized treat ...

(4 pages) 54 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Justice system in the USA: Should Juvenile be tried as adult

sh criminal penalties for unfortunate children, segregating 'pre-delinquent' children from hardened delinquents, providing 'proper' moral, ethical, political, and social values and role models for dep ...

(6 pages) 142 0 0.0 Jul/2010

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Reducing Juvenile Delinquency

ency laws were designed to provide treatment, rather than punishment, for juvenile offenders. Young delinquents are usually sent to juvenile courts, where the main aim is to rehabilitate offenders, ra ... An early study comparing delinquent and non-delinquent brothers showed that over 90 percent of the delinquents had unhappy home lives and felt discontented with their life circumstances. Only 13 perc ...

(2 pages) 14 0 0.0 May/2012

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters