This article explores the historical development of juvenile courts in the United States within the context of the criminal justice system. The introduction sets the stage by defining juvenile courts and highlighting their crucial role in the broader criminal justice framework. The first section traces the early roots of juvenile justice, examining its origins in
This article explores the historical evolution of crime within the United States, tracing its roots from the colonial period to the contemporary era. The narrative unfolds in three distinct phases, beginning with an examination of crime in colonial America and its transformation during the early Republic. The second section delves into the 19th century, scrutinizing
Historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics that studies language in its historical aspects. It investigates a language or languages at various points in time. The term “diachronic linguistics” is often used in place of historical linguistics and sets it apart from “synchronic linguistics,” which studies language at a single point in time. The investigation
The Historical Clinical Risk Management-20 (HCR-20) is a commonly used violence risk assessment measure belonging to the Structured Professional Judgment model of violence risk assessment that sets out 20 risk factors across three scales: Historical, Clinical, and Risk Management. Violence risk assessment plays a pivotal role within criminal and forensic psychology, in that it is
Introduction Although the US, in comparison with other Western countries, was a latecomer to social insurance and the public provision of insurance for health services, it was largely in the America of the 1960s that formal economic analysis of health care first began to take root, and American ideas and practices have long since dominated