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Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. In an early analysis, Edwin Sutherland (1947) observed that criminology examines the processes of making laws, breaking laws, and reacting to the breaking of laws....
death sentences were rarely imposed on juveniles. Most death penalty states before the 1980s had statutes establishing a required minimum age at the time of the crime. Indiana's death penalty statute allowed juveniles as young as 10 years o...
crime has become a major concern for most communities throughout the United States. As a consequence? residents are turning to youth agencies? churches? and law enforcement to develop innovative strategies to intervene and reduce the alarmi...
policy in the United States is unguided by theory. In fact, programs are favored precisely because they show disdain for ideas about the causes of crime. Theoretical criminology has been replaced by administrative criminology, the idea that...
juveniles). These crimes are deal by different procedures such as juvenile courts and detention centers that are other than dealing with the illegal behaviors of adults. The juvenile delinquents are those people who are under the age of 18 ...
and Laub: Age-graded theory of informal social control Introduction A debate over the significance of criminal careers dominated theoretical criminology, beginning in the mid-1980s. On one side, Alfred Blumstein et al. (1986, 1988a, 1988b)...
juveniles falls in line with the greater tradition of providing mitigated punishments to children for the commission of all crimes. For example, English common law deemed all children under the age of seven incapable of mens rea (guilty min...