Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
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Category : Appellate courts
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Improving the Administration of Justice
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
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Category : Appellate courts
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publisher:
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Category : Appellate courts
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Reforming Juvenile Justice
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309278937
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309278937
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Performance Measures for the Criminal Justice System
Author: John J. DiIulio
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Category : Criminal justice personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A Discussion paper from the BJS-Princeton Project.
Publisher:
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Category : Criminal justice personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A Discussion paper from the BJS-Princeton Project.
The Improvement and Reform of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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GAO Documents
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.
Criminal Justice Act of 1963
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
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Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
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Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 2005
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Improvement and Reform of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime
Publisher:
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Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Considers improvement of the criminal justice and law enforcement systems, with emphasis on correction and rehabilitation, along with a more effective court system and police force.
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Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Considers improvement of the criminal justice and law enforcement systems, with emphasis on correction and rehabilitation, along with a more effective court system and police force.
Deficiencies in Judicial Administration
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Publisher:
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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