The juvenile court has been subject to increasing criticism over the years, particularly with regard to its handling of delinquency cases. This is in part the result of an inaccurate view of the court as primarily a criminal court that adjudicates crimes committed by children. This article proposes an alternative model for the court, one that encompasses its jurisdiction over dependency and sta...

The Crime investigation department have very significant role in police system in all countries in the world. Computer systems are placed in almost all police stations to store and retrieve the crimes and criminal data and for subsequent reporting. For crime analysts, it is a challenging, time-consuming to determine who have been committed crimes from the large set of crimes that are happening ...

This study aims to determine the causes of rampant lottery gambling in jurisdiction Pematang Siantar Police and countermeasures carried out by eradicating crime Police. The data used this are primary secondary data. results showed that factors causing Legal Territory were: low level education, economic capacity with high unemployment, environmental where people like play cultural factors. educa...

One of the benefits of the comparative study of legal institutions is that it exposes the extent to which they are shaped by contingency as well as by logic or principle. What is regarded in one jurisdiction as the only possible or acceptable way of doing something is often revealed to be pure preconception. In other words, the comparative study of law can act as a balance to the unconscious et...

This Essay considers the emerging research in the area of dual-jurisdiction children, often referred to as “crossover kids”—those currently or previously involved in maltreatment proceedings who have also committed delinquent acts. Part I describes the development of the juvenile courts in the early twentieth century. Part II of this Essay questions the need to “track” children along one legal ...

Trial court judges play a crucial role in the administration of justice for both criminal and civil matters. Although psychologists have studied juries for many decades they have given relatively little attention to judges. Recent writings, however, suggest increasing interest in the psychology of judicial decision making. This essay reviews several selected topics where judicial discretion app...