Delinquency Jurisdiction in a Unified Family Court: Balancing Intervention, Prevention, and Adjudication

The juvenile court and delinquency cases.

Growing public concern about the rise in violent juvenile crime is borne out by increases in the juvenile court's caseload, which rose 23% between 1989 and 1993. The number of cases involving person offenses increased by 52%. Despite the rise in person offenses, the majority of delinquency cases in juvenile court involve property offenses, and less than 10% of the caseload consists of violent o...

Family Environment and Delinquency

(Koutledge and Kegan faul, JJs.) This is the third member of the Gluecks' monumental trilogy, the previous two being Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency, and Physique and Delinquency. It is helpful if the reader has had previous acquaintance with the Gluecks' earlier works. The present 328-page volume is more readable than the predecessors, for it is divided into three sections, the first 106 page...

I-14: Ethical Issues in Sex Selection and Family Balancing

Sex selection for non-medical reasons is a major controversy in around the world. Here in this paper, we presented the ethical arguments about sex selection for non-medical reasons and discuss about them in Islamic context. Significant arguments about sex selection relate to sexism and sex discrimination, sex disproportion, human dignity, playing God, psychological pressure on unselected childr...

Do Supreme Court Nominees Lie? The Politics of Adjudication

Family transitions and juvenile delinquency.

There is a large body of research that shows children from non-intact homes show higher rates of juvenile delinquency than children from intact homes, partially due to weaker parental control and supervision in non-intact homes. What has not been adequately addressed in the research is the influence of changes in family structure among individual adolescents over time on delinquent offending. U...