o Courts should adopt court performance measures to ensure that they can track cases, to increase accountability, and to inform decisions about the allocation of court resources; and o Incentives and requirements should be established for effective collaboration between courts and child welfare agencies on behalf of children in foster care; and o Children and parents should have a strong voice ...

The number of mental health courts in the United States is rapidly increasing, from one in 1997 to nearly 100 in 2004. However, to date there is comparatively little research regarding these specialty courts. The present study reports data on the referral and disposition decision-making processes of seven mental health courts. Information on all referrals to the seven courts over a three-month ...

This research aims to improve the protection of children crime victims, which often occurs when provision services who are temporary or permanent victims psychological, physical and social suffering is neglected. It a study analyze from viewpoint victimology.The specification type in this descriptive nature uses prescriptive legal methods through several approaches.The statutory regulatory appr...

Why do some international courts and judges extensively borrow from other international courts while others do not? Answers to this question have important implications for debates on transjudicial communication, the diffusion of international legal norms, and international judicial behavior. Judges may use external sources because they help improve decisions or because it fits their ideologica...

I investigated the influence of a juvenile defendant’s socioeconomic status (SES) on mock jurors’ perceptions of a juvenile tried in adult court. In line with the similarity-leniency hypothesis and stereotypes regarding the relationship between poverty and crime, I predicted that the low SES defendant would be found guilty more often and receive more punitive case judgments than a middle or hig...

DNA plays an indispensable role in modern law enforcement, and courts uniformly find that DNA extraction statutes targeting criminals satisfy the Fourth Amendment. Courts differ on which Fourth Amendment test--totality of the circumstances or special needs--ought to be employed in this context. This Note concludes that courts should apply Samson v. California's less stringent totality of the ci...

There is an overall legitimacy crisis in courts. The sources of this crisis have, to a large extent, been misconstrued. While there has been significant writing depicting the diminished quality, effectiveness, and fairness of courts, these phenomena have, for the most part, been viewed as distinct problems that warrant discrete solutions. This article shows that these problems are all manifesta...

This paper is a reassessment of underlying factors of juvenile delinquency in the purview of Covid-19. The study tries to judge the relationship between juvenile delinquency and impact of media, heredity, environment, time, age, school performance, economic status, association etc. The significance of the relationships has been tested. Moreover, attempt has been made to study the influence of t...

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