Juvenile Offenders
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ISBN13: 9781459094161
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. SEX AND JUVENILE CRIME. Necessity for studying the conditions which produce crime?Why penal laws fail?Conditions which produce crime of two kinds: individual and social?Individual conditions?The effect of sex on crime?Relation between male and female crime among juveniles under sixteen?Among juveniles under twenty-one? Among juveniles in reformatories?Among juveniles in industrial schools?Sex and juvenile crime in the United States? Causes of the unequal distribution of crime among the sexes: I. The law more lenient to females than to males; 2. Social and economic conditions of the sexes differ; 3. Biological conditions of the sexes differ?Effect of sex on the nature of crime?The character of female offenders?The offence as an index of the character of the offender?The habit of offending as an index of character?Value of knowing previous character in dealing with juveniles?Summary of conclusions. In the preceding chapters we have inquired into the extent and local distribution of juvenile delinquency. Our next step will consist of an inquiry into the individual conditions of the juvenile delinquent. Crime of all kinds is a product of certain antecedent conditions residing partly in the individual and partly in his surroundings. All attempts at dealing with criminal problems which take no account of the conditions which tend to produce the criminal population are predestined to failure. One of theprincipal reasons our penal laws have hitherto been so ineffective in diminishing the proportions of crime is that these laws have practically ignored the individual and social conditions on which the movement of crime depends. An enactment directed against a certain kind of crime will in the end have comparatively little effect in diminishing its amount if the antece...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459094161 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459094166 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $12.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 164 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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