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What Causes Delinquency?, 2008.
This paper compares and contrasts the social control and self control criminological theories.
931 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 33.95
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The paper explains that the social control theory depicts social institutions and society as major contributors to delinquency, which are reinforced by the criminals' environment or social construct in a positivistic perspective. The paper further explains how contrary to this, the self-control theory defines the early childhood development of a delinquent as reinforcing an internal sense of identity, which manifests itself into criminal behaviors outside of social bonding.
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"The theorizations of Jack P. Gibbs can best help to explain a comparison and contrast of the Social Control Theory and that of the Self-Control Theory in criminology. Gibbs helped to construct a theorization on the nature of Social Control Theory that has been centered on the positivism of Strain theory, as well as Conflict Theory in relation to the role of delinquency and crime. Gibbs (1994) defines social controls through the medium of "homicide" as a criminal example of deviant delinquent behavior is affected by social organizations, such as the criminal justice system as a third party "mediator" that often dictates the way they judge social norms in regards to crime (p.49). In this manner, social control is dictated by the reaction of the justice system in relation to occurrence of crimes in relation to the reoccurrence of the conflict between victim and aggressor."
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Teaching Philosophy in Early Childhood Education, 2009.
An examination of teaching philosophies relevant to early childhood education and the role of childhood education in society.
2,901 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 86.95
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This paper discusses the writer's views and philosophies regarding early childhood education. It describes the importance of early childhood education in society and the legal codes that apply to it. The paper then discusses the role parents can play in a child's education and how this role can be facilitated by the educators. It also looks at how diversity can affect education. Finally, the paper discusses the writer's teaching philosophies.
Table of Contents:
The Importance of Early Childhood Education
Legal Codes Relevant to Early Childhood Education
Parenting Cooperation
Diversity in Education
Teaching Philosophy
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"My teaching philosophy is significantly influenced by diversity in age and ability as I have experienced the breadth of such as a student and an ECE professional. In ECE the main aspect of philosophy that influences the ability to help all students is flexibility. Open ended project bases with reflective pre-reading and constant supervision and support are the key to the development of skills that manifest as flexible enough to support diversity of age and ability. Another practical application I have found essential to such development is multi-age mentoring throughout the day. Older children and younger children and children of varied abilities can be partnered to help one another understand concepts an learning materials and if the experience is positive it helps develop self-esteem and camaraderie among students who them begin to understand the staged process of learning. One way that I have tried to help ensure that such interactions are positive are by applying concepts from the Different and Same supplementary curriculum as it attempts to model good behavior for students with regard to diversity in age, ability and even race."
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Juvenile Delinquency, 2004.
Looks at many of the different aspects of juvenile delinquency, including what types of behavior are considered delinquent and the legal aspects.
2,343 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This essay provides an overview of various facets of juvenile delinquency, while concentrating on the different types of criminal behavior. The paper categorizes the crimes and behavior that constitute juvenile delinquency, discusses the legal side of juvenile delinquency, and presents statistics on which crimes are committed most often, who commits them most often, and where they most often occur.
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"In the United States, the Juvenile Justice System is the legal system through which cases involving minors are handled. The system was implemented into U.S. policy in 1899. The Juvenile Justice System was instituted during the Progressive Era, a period of social reform in the U.S. in the early twentieth century. It was initially designed to assist delinquent youth that were being dealt with within the adult system. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act called for a deinstitutionalization of juvenile delinquents. It required that states holding youth within adult prisons for status offenses remove them within a span of two years. Juvenile delinquency, according to the U.S. Code, is a violation of the law committed by a person under the age of 18 that would be considered a crime if it was committed by a person 18 or older. By federal standards all persons 17 and under are considered juveniles. Each state, however, has been given the authority to decide who, by age, may be tried in juvenile courts."
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Juvenile Delinquency, 2005.
This paper is in two parts: A discussion of the prevention of juvenile delinquency and a. specific proposal for how to address the rising concern of juvenile delinquency among girls.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper explains that juvenile delinquency, which is fast becoming one of the largest problems facing urban centers, can lead to lawbreaking, which often can lead to adult lives as career criminals. The author stresses that it is important to understand some of the major risk factors causing juvenile delinquency and then develop potential institutional remedies. The paper uses statistics and general facts to support its conclusions.
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"Juvenile delinquency is fast becoming one of the largest problems facing urban centers where concentrations of impoverished youth from broken home situations are commonplace. Many of these young people - predominantly the boys - turn to delinquency and lawbreaking that can oft times lead to adult lives as career criminals. Consequently, it is important to understand some of the major risk factors causing juvenile delinquency and then develop potential institutional remedies. Theories for the causes of juvenile delinquency range from the commonsensical to the ridiculous. Somewhere in the middle are the statistically demonstrated factors that are indicators of whether or not a juvenile will turn to crime. Many types of crimes are associated primarily with the young and are considered "coming of age" crimes. These include drug experimentation, petty theft, and vandalism."
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Juvenile Delinquency on US American Indian Reservations, 2007.
This paper discusses the high rates of juvenile delinquency by American Indian youth living on reservations.
2,290 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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The paper explores how many programs and government agencies have attempted to address this dilemma of juvenile delinquency. The paper relates that on United States Indian reservations, the current approach to juvenile delinquency includes prevention, intervention and graduated sanctions. The paper offers reasons for the prevalence of this juvenile delinquency and reveals that although the crimes involving delinquent acts by juveniles on American Indian reservations are increasing, the causes are similar to the causes of delinquency of the general population.
Outline:
Brief Background of Juvenile Delinquency
Reasons for the Prevalence of Juvenile Delinquency on Reservations
Conclusion
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"In the past few decades, juvenile delinquency has emerged as a significant criminal and sociological issue, raising concern among parents, educators, policy-makers and government officials alike. Juvenile delinquency has become a major crime issue on United States American Indian reservations; the public has been overwhelmed with stories from the media, providing graphic evidence of a crime wave generated by American Indian youth living on reservations. According to the Bureau of Prisons, the number of Indian youth in custody has increased by nearly 300% since 1994 (Johnson, 2004). Additionally, statistical data indicates that the arrest rate for Native American youth is about twice that of the overall youth population statewide in North Dakota (Martin, 2002)."
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Teenage Delinquencies in the United States, 2002.
Looks at regions of the U.S. where teenage delinquency is prevalent and where it is less prevalent and examines the geographical conditions that contribute to delinquency.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 71.95
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This eight-page undergraduate paper discusses spatial distribution of teenage delinquencies in the United States. It will explain where delinquencies are more prevalent and where they are less prevalent and how geography plays an important factor in such type of behavior.
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The Development of Juvenile Delinquency, 2008.
A discussion of the development of juvenile criminal behavior.
1,832 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper compares and contrasts social views and practices regarding juvenile delinquency from 1824 to the present. The paper also looks at the differences and similarities in the way society viewed children and the roles that societal institutions have played in raising children. The paper explains that to really compare juvenile delinquency from the past to the present it is important to comprehend how people lived and how juvenile delinquency was handled back in the 1800s. The paper then points out that the overall goal has changed from punishment to a more rehabilitative viewpoint. The paper shows that, through the help of societal institutions such as churches and school support, all the way up to help from governmental agencies, children have a much greater chance at a healthy lifestyle and childhood. The paper concludes that parents still remain the biggest factor in the development of children and will remain one of the biggest factors in deterring children from becoming delinquents.
Outline:
Delinquency from the Past
Links from Parenthood to Delinquency
Conclusion
Appended Information:
Demographic Background
Family and Social Environment
Economic Circumstances
Health Care
Physical Environment and Safety
Behavior
Education
Health
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"The concept of probation was first introduced in Massachusetts in 1841, and thought of as a great alternative to removing troubled children from their home. Around the time of urbanization and industrialization, children who committed crimes such as vandalism and stealing were place in homes or asylums. These children were viewed as victims of neglect and taken from their homes. This was a result of not having any special facilities for juvenile offenders. Children who were unfortunate enough to commit more violent harsh crimes were subject to very more severe consequences according to the text as "imprisonment, whipping and death" (Siegel, Welsh, Senna, p. 366)."
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Juvenile Delinquency, 2006.
An examination of juvenile delinquency - how it is defined and how this definition developed through the ages.
1,988 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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The paper discusses juvenile delinquency which is now considered a different status for young people both socially and legally. The paper further discusses how childhood and adolescence exist as separate and distinct stages of life, unique from other stages. The writer examines scientific methods of studying crime and delinquency and the progress the courts have made in distinguishing vagrant and pauper children from criminal children. The paper further examines Charles Cooley's publication, analyzing the personal perception of juvenile delinquents, by studying children and their imaginary friends.
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"The sociologists indicate the juvenile delinquency to be a status determined both by age and behavior. Presently, it is clear that the childhood and adolescence exist as separate and distinct stages of life unique from other stages. However, the discovery of childhood and adolescence as distinct stages of life was very slow and was not complete until the Enlightenment, when Rousseau's idea of developmental stages confined a growing awareness of age distinctions across the course of life. Such recognition of developmental stages and differentiation based on age had significant impact for the framework of family life, for child rearing, for education."
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Adolescent Delinquency, 2002.
Analyzes two articles on juvenile delinquency: "Is Child Maltreatment a Leading Cause of Delinquency?" by I. M. Schwartz, J.A Rendon, and C.M. Hsieh and "Drug Use and Violent Crime Among Adolescents" by M.P Dawkins.
1,456 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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This paper discusses the article "Is Child Maltreatment a Leading Cause of Delinquency?" (I. M. Schwartz, J.A Rendon, and C.M. Hsieh) which appeared in the September 1994 edition of "Child Welfare". The paper shows that the purpose of this article is to connect the methods, discipline and theories of social work with adolescents to the wider field of the influence of government policy on crime. The paper then discusses M.P Dawkins 1997 article, "Drug Use and Violent Crime Among Adolescents" in which the author reports conducting research at a juvenile detention facility.
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"What makes this article potentially useful to social-work or psychotherapy practitioners is that its findings are somewhat out of line with the popular view that illicit drugs constitute the main catalyst for youth crime. Dawkins reports that alcohol, which is a controlled but otherwise legal substance, and marijuana, which though an illicit substance is not usually considered a hard drug, are more prominent in the background of a good deal of youth violence and nonviolent offenses. Dawkins develops the idea that youths? use of these two substances also cuts across socioeconomic and ethnic lines, though not necessarily an existing criminal record, as more important predictors of future youthful criminal behavior."
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Middle Class Delinquency, 2002.
Argues that low socio-economic status does not promote a higher rate of juvenile delinquency.
2,008 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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Juvenile justice system statistics of delinquent behavior, as compared to self report studies, fail to accurately reflect the extent of delinquency in the middle class. As such, the juvenile justice system purports that delinquency predominately occurs among lower class minors. The paper shows, however, that the extent of middle class delinquency and its varieties show that socioeconomic status does play a role in the outcome of these cases, revealing biases within the juvenile justice process along the way. The paper shows that although many theories of crime have linked low levels of socioeconomic status to high levels of delinquency, empirical studies have consistently found weak or nonexistent correlations between individuals' socioeconomic status and their self-reported delinquent behavior.
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"Police officers, too, who work in high-crime urban areas are probably more likely to arrest a minority juvenile for a minor offense, such as underage drinking than would an officer in a more wealthy suburb for the same offense whose beat covers mostly white neighborhoods. Likewise, an intake officer might be less likely to arrange an informal settlement for a minority child than for a child whose middle class parents made their presence known and were willing to assume future responsibility for the discipline and rehabilitation of the child. Further, a judge is probably more likely to view minorities as poorer risks than white children and thus incarcerate them more frequently. (Satterthwaite, 1997, p. 68)."
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Childhood Sexual Abuse and Self-Destructive Behavior, 2008.
A literature review of the relationship between childhood sexual abuse, dissociation and self-destructive behavior.
5,754 words (approx. 23.0 pages), 18 sources, APA, $ 138.95
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The early childhood years are universally recognized as being a critically important developmental period for human beings, and when normal patterns of parental caregiving and nurturing are disrupted or when children experience abuse at the hands of others, the consequences can be profound, pervasive and even life-threatening. This literature review examines the relationship between childhood sexual abuse, dissociation and self-destructive behavior. The studies are grouped according to those studies concerning childhood sexual abuse and dissociation, those that concern childhood sexual abuse and various self-destructive behaviors, and those that investigate the relationship between all three factors.
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Introduction
Studies Concerning Childhood Sexual Abuse and Dissociation
Studies Concerning Childhood Sexual Abuse and Self-Destructive Behaviors
Studies Examining All Three Variables
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"When families experience the trauma of sexual abuse, the processes by which these multiple and competing reactions on the part of the parent and the child tend to interfere with the normal processes that provide families with the means to achieve healthy functioning following such episodes of abuse. In this regard, Silberg (2004) reports that when children are sexually abused, there will be a natural tendency to engage in a number of emotional responses that may compete for primacy, including a desire for secrecy, individual victimization memories and sexual experiences, and confused and mixed emotions in the child and the parent. According to this researcher, "This is likely to be the case whether the conflicting feelings are a result of abuse within the family or from maltreatment by an individual outside of the family. In either case, these competing processes lead to dissociative manifestations, forgetting, and inability to make adequate meaning out of the feelings, perceptions, and ideas stimulated by the sexual abuse" (Silberg, 2004, p. 490). "
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Social Problems and Juvenile Delinquency, 2005.
A discussion of the social problems associated with juvenile delinquency.
5,487 words (approx. 21.9 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 134.95
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The social causes of juvenile delinquency encompass a wide array of theories that have been set forth by criminologists and sociologists. This paper analyzes and discusses the history, trends, statistics and consequences of juvenile delinquency. It discusses the function of conflict theory, rational theory and symbolic interaction in relation to juvenile delinquency and offer a solution as to the best workable theory.
Introduction
History of Juvenile Delinquency
Statistical Trends
Consequences of Juvenile Delinquency
Theories of Juvenile Delinquency
Conflict Theory
Rational Choice Theory
Symbolic Interaction Theory
Conclusion
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"Juvenile delinquency has become a major crime issue in the United States. Questions and solutions regarding the problem of juvenile delinquency continues to be debated upon by parents, school officials, society, and legislators. The public has been overwhelmed with stories from the media, providing graphic evidence of a crime wave generated by our youth who, according to media reports, prey upon a defenseless public. This image of delinquent youth has brought with it a fear of crime among the public that is almost without precedent. Several of our political leaders have responded with calls for harsher treatment of youthful offenders and or an end to revolving door justice. Others have said that the harsh responses proposed are dehumanizing and do not address the sources of the problem from a sociological viewpoint."
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Middle Childhood, 2007.
This paper discusses middle childhood and the importance of applying theories on middle childhood in the classroom.
1,658 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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In this article, the writer analyzes the importance of understanding the stages of human development in the classroom. Specifically, this work analyzes some of the problems that might result from a teacher's lack of such understanding. The focus of this paper is on middle childhood and includes a discussion of teacher behaviors that serve to promote students' thinking abilities, behaviors that would help students achieve greater success and behaviors that would promote the social and emotional well-being of the individual student, as well as improve the classroom environment for children in that stage. Finally this work includes classroom practices and materials that serve to promote diversity and equity within the educational experience.
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Objective
Introduction
Developmentally Appropriate Classroom Practice
Classroom Practices: Diversity and Equity in Education
Summary and Conclusion
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"At this stage of development the students are very conscious of what their peers think of them and it begins to be important to be accepted among their peers at this stage of development. It is important at this stage of development that the teacher motivates students to participate in classroom activities and discussions and that the students are rewarded for participation. The teacher must work towards the students feeling good about participation even when they give a wrong answer, therefore motivation and reward must be focused toward participation and not just giving the right answer. The teacher should be able to assess the social dynamics among the group of students and in doing so call upon those she has noted are 'leaders' in the group to assist her in motivating other student's participation. In motivating the natural leaders of the classroom group in participation of learning it will become socially acceptable for others in the group to actively participate in classroom activities."
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Divorce and Middle Childhood, 2005.
This well-researched paper examines the long-term and at times severe effects of divorce on children of all ages, while focusing primarily on middle childhood.
4,540 words (approx. 18.2 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 118.95
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The writer of this in-depth paper details the effects of divorce on children of various ages, while focusing in particular on middle childhood. This paper introduces the topic and discusses the findings of current research regarding this particular issue, as well as the conclusions that stem from this research. This paper discusses the issues of juvenile delinquency and depression which have been proven to be more pronounced in single-parent families. This paper delves into custody issues, including the problems that arise when children are separated from the same-sex parent. The writer contends and proves why juvenile delinquency is greater in children that are separated from the opposite-sex parent. This well-researched paper also analyzes the issues of maladjustment, fears of abandonment and the risk of mental health issues that develop in the child during and after the divorce proceedings, which must be dealt with accordingly. This paper looks at the emotional problems as well as the long-term effects of divorce, which include difficulty in cultivating long-lasting, appropriate relationships and continuous educational problems.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Findings
Conclusion
Bibliography
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"When children become wild and hard to control, parents are often at a loss as to how to help them. It is difficult enough to control a wild, unruly teenager when there are two parents in the house, but much more difficult when there is only one parent. To compound the problem, that single parent often works two jobs or long hours to provide food, clothing, and shelter for himself or herself and the children. This absence from the house can allow the child too much unsupervised free time in which to experiment with new and dangerous things that can get them in trouble with parents, the law, or worse. On the other side of the equation are the reclusive children."
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