...................................................................................................................... vi TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................. viii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................................. x INTRODUCTION ..........................

There are few studies that explore the association between cognitive and affective factors according to gender types of crime in juvenile offenders. This study analyzed callous-unemotional traits, empathy, moral disengagement mechanisms differences criminal typology 149 adolescents (M = 17.72 years, SD 1.34) prosecuted by Criminal Responsibility System (SRPA) placed custodial measures. The 81.2...

The focus on court-referred youth within this study necessitates a brief description of the modern juvenile justice system. Children and adolescents under the age of 18 are described as juvenile delinquents if they engage in activities prohibited by local, state, or federal legal codes (Granville, 2007). When juveniles violate the law, their cases are typically processed through the juvenile ju...

Elizabeth Scott and Laurence Steinberg explore the dramatic changes in the law's conception of young offenders between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. At the dawn of the juvenile court era, they note, most youths were tried and punished as if they were adults. Early juvenile court reformers argued strongly against such a view, believing that the justice ...

The aim of this article to analysis regulate, responsibility and how overcome efforts prevent children from committing murder crimes. This type research is directed normative juridical law research. nature the descriptive analysis, which these results can describe (describe) thoroughly systematically regarding for as perpetrators crime murder.The legal arrangements committed by are: Article 338...

The rehabilitation potential of mentally ill juvenile offenders should be at the forefront of the forensic mental health debate, because these youths mature into adults who may continue to have mental disorders and to offend. In view of this concern, the importance of using juvenile detention facilities as vehicles for youth reform cannot be overstated. Juvenile justice reform is a relatively r...