Legal and racial elements of public willingness to transfer juvenile offenders to adult court

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to analyze the issue of public support for the harsher treatment of criminals by evaluating variables correlating with individuals' willingness to treat juvenile offenders as adults subject to criminal penalties. The association between the legal elements and extralegal elements of a case was analyzed against citizens' willingness to transfer youthful offenders from juvenile to adult criminal court. Moreover, interaction terms associated with assault and type of weapon were examined.

Juvenile offenders, Criminals

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Patterns of arrest in domestic violence encounters: identifying a police decision-making model

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to analyze arrest patterns of police officers in domestic violence events for a stratified random sample of incidents in two police districts in Boston, MA, in 1993. The chi-square automation interaction detector was utilized to carry out the initial analytic strategy. Interaction effects were entered into logistic regression frameworks to produce odd rations in the predictions of arrests.

Police, Police officers, Family violence, Domestic violence, Arrest

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Violence and drug use in juvenile institutions

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A study was conducted to analyze theoretical factors that affect inmate misconduct. Two samples of youths paroled from the California Youth Authority institutions were utilized to carry out the analysis. An integrated framework of selected importation and deprivation factors on inmate acts of violence and drug use was then examined. Results did not promote an integrated framework on drug misconduct.

Research, Drug abuse, Juvenile corrections, Violence research

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