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2. CJA 374 Students Guide / Tutorialrank.Com • CJA 374 Week 1 Discussion Question 1 (UOP Course) • CJA 374 Week 1 Discussion Question 2 (UOP Course) • CJA 374 Week 1 Individual Assignment Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper (UOP Course) • CJA 374 Week 1 Team Assignment Electronic Reading Summary (Blended Sentencing and the Sixth Amendment Summary) (UOP Course) • At what age do you believe individuals are truly capable of understanding the seriousness and consequences of their actions? Explain. • At what age should juveniles be tried as adults? Explain. CJA 374 Entire Course CJA 374 Week 1 Discussion Question 1

3. CJA 374 Students Guide / Tutorialrank.Com • How are different theories of delinquent conduct evaluated?  Which type of evaluation seem most useful?  Note:  You'll have to have read the materials thoroughly to get this question answered correctly. • Resources: Juvenile Arrests 2001 report • Write a 700- to 1,000-word paper summarizing the key points of the Juvenile Arrests 2001 bulletin. Address the following in your paper: • The overall decrease in juvenile arrests • The increase in drug offenses and simple assaults • Implications for juvenile females and minorities CJA 374 Week 1 Discussion Question 2 CJA 374 Week 1 Individual Assignment Juvenile Crime Statistics Paper

4. CJA 374 Students Guide / Tutorialrank.Com • SelectedLearning Team members will work together throughout the course. • Summarize in 200-500 words your team’s assigned electronic reading and post the summary in the Main Forum. • Review the Week One objectives and discuss additional insights and questions that may have arisen. • Do you believe that police have too little or too much discretion in their decisions on how to handle specific situations involving juveniles? Use examples and explain. CJA 374 Week 1 Team Assignment Electronic Reading Summary (Blended Sentencing and the Sixth Amendment Summary) CJA 374 Week 2 Discussion Question 1

5. CJA 374 Students Guide / Tutorialrank.Com • Amongst the principle players, church, schools, police, and youth organizations— which has the most important role in the prevention of delinquency? Please note that it has been conceded that family/parents have the most important role in preventing delinquency, so please do not include this as a part of your discussion.  Discuss each. • Write a 1,000- to 1,500-word paper describing two diversion, intervention, or prevention programs operating in your city or state. • Address why the programs should work to reduce juvenile crime, based on an analysis of the relationship between program premise and goals and one or more major causes of juvenile delinquent behavior. CJA 374 Week 2 Discussion Question 2 CJA 374 Week 2 Individual Assignment Crime Causation and Diversion Paper

6. CJA 374 Students Guide / Tutorialrank.Com • Deliverable: Submit outline for Week 3 Team paper and include references with proper citation. Post in Team Forum. • Continue working on the team paper and presentation due Week Three and Five. • Briefly describe the juvenile court process in the handling of juvenile offenders. How do you think existing agencies and community resources might reform to create an effective system for dealing with a wide variety of delinquent and pre-delinquent behaviors? CJA 374 Week 2 Team Outline Juvenile and Adult Courts A Comparative Analysis CJA 374 Week 3 Discussion Question 1

7. CJA 374 Students Guide / Tutorialrank.Com • Describe the various models of risk-needs assessment tools in assessment and the classification of juvenile offenders. • Deliverable: Write a 1,000- to 1,500-word paper comparing and contrasting Juvenile Court with Adult Court. Include the following in your paper: • An overview of the juvenile justice system • A point by point comparison between juvenile and adult courts CJA 374 Week 3 Discussion Question 2 CJA 374 Week 3 Team Assignment Juvenile and Adult Courts A Comparative Analysis

8. CJA 374 Students Guide / Tutorialrank.Com • To what do you attribute the disproportional number of minority youths, as compared to white youths, in juvenile corrections facilities? Explain your answer. Please note, this question is not addressing arrests or any other phases of the juvenile process. • Discuss and identify the major participants in the juvenile adjudication process. What are each person’s role and responsibilities in the course of a juvenile’s trial and subsequent adjudication? CJA 374 Week 4 Discussion Question 1 CJA 374 Week 4 Discussion Question 2

9. CJA 374 Students Guide / Tutorialrank.Com • Compute the risk score for each of these individuals using both the Missouri and Washington Risk Assessment models. • Write a 1,000- to 1,500-word paper summarizing your risk assessment, comparisons, additional information desired, and recommendations. Address the following in your paper: • A comparison of the results you obtained for each individual from the two different assessments • Deliverables: Submit outline for Week 5 paper & PowerPoint Presentation to Team Forum. Include references along with citations. • Summarize in 200-500 words the team’s assigned electronic reading in the Main Forum. CJA 374 Week 4 Individual Assignment Risk Assessment Paper CJA 374 Week 4 Paper outline for week 5

10. CJA 374 Students Guide / Tutorialrank.Com • Write a 1,750- to 2,250-word paper addressing the following scenario: You are a team of juvenile justice consultants making a presentation to the state legislature concerning the future of the juvenile justice system. CJA 374 Week 5 Team Assignment Future of Juvenile Justice System Paper and Presentation

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