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JUVENILE JUSTICE

 

DEFINITION: “Juvenile justice is the description given to the courts, laws, personnel and agencies that administer the laws to persons younger than legal age”. American Justice, Vol. II

 

NARROW THE TOPIC:

·         Should juveniles be tried as adults in adult courts for violent crimes?

·         Has the juvenile justice system failed to reduce crime rates? If so, why?

·         Are teen courts an effective means of intervention in misdemeanors?

·         Are boot camps an effective means of dealing with juvenile crime?

·         Does the juvenile justice system discriminate against minorities?

·         Should parents be held accountable for the criminal acts of their children?

·         Should juvenile court services be abolished?

·         Should juvenile correctional facilities be privatized?

·         What role should the federal government play in reducing juvenile crime?

·         What are the alternatives to institutional confinement of juvenile offenders?

·         Should the juvenile justice system serve to punish or rehabilitate juvenile offenders?

 

LINCC SUBJECT HEADINGS: Juvenile Corrections  Juvenile Justice

 

SPECIALIZED SOURCES SHELVED IN THE REFERENCE COLLECTION:

Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities	REF HV 9471 .E427 2005 v.2
Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History	REF HV 12 .E497 2005
Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights & Liberties	REF KF 4748 .E53 2006
Encyclopedia of Police Science	REF HV 7901 .E53 2007
Criminal Justice	REF KF 9214.5 .C75 2006

                                                                                               

AVAILABLE AT THE REFERENCE DESK:

CQ Researcher  "Juvenile Justice" 11/07/2008

Florida Crime & Justice

Issues & Controversies on File  "Teen Courts" 3/10/06; "Boot Camps for Juvenile Offenders" 6/08/07; "Boot Camps for Juvenile Offenders" "6/08/07

At Issue: Alternatives to Prisons (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Database)

Opposing Viewpoints:   Juvenile Crime;  Criminal .Justice  (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Database)

 

STATISTICS:

Juvenile Justice Facts and Figures   http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/facts/facts.html

Statistical Abstracts of the United States (also at the Reference Desk)

National Criminal Justice Reference Service  http://virlib.ncjrs.org/JuvenileJustice.asp

Growing Up in America: Information Plus (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Database)

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report  http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/nr2006/html/chp4.html

 

ELECTRONIC INDEXES:

Academic Search Complete

Expanded Academic ASAP

OmniFile Full Text Select Edition

Criminal Justice Index

 

FULL-TEXT NEWSPAPERS:  America's Newspapers

 

INTERNET SITES:

ACLU Fact Sheet	http://www.aclu.org/library/fctsht.html
Juvenile Justice Facts and Figures	http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/index.html
FSU Juvenile Justice Links	http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/jjclearinghouse/juvenile_justice_links.htm
Florida Dept. of Juvenile Justice	http://www.djj.state.fl.us/Research/index.html
Cybrary: Juvenile Justice	http://talkjustice.com/links.asp?453053921

 

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