CJUS 230. Professor Jennifer DeBoer | Juvenile Justice | Should Children be Tried as Adults? | Rick Penor 5/12/2010 | Juvenile Justice: Should children be tried as adults? Are youth capable of fully understanding the consequences that their actions may cause or are they mentally incapable of processing that information? Juveniles commit crimes just like adults. Sometimes the crimes they commit are heinous‚ but does that mean they are no longer a child? I believe there may be special
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Due Process Violations Central American families encounter overwhelming obstacles to due process in detention; for example‚ the process of expedited removal places families who are eligible for asylum at risk of deportation. Although refugees in removal proceedings have the right to legal aid‚ nearly 40% of all detention facilities are located 60 miles or from a metro area (Human Rights First‚ 2011). Because its difficult to access legal services‚ roughly 84% of women and children face their removal
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been used in countries notorious for corrupt government dictatorships such as Russia‚ Japan‚ and Germany but has also been prevalent in democracies. The use of torture in democracy is a shame‚ not only do secret CIA kidnappings‚ and the indefinite detention at Guantanamo Bay go against the basic elements of a democracy‚ it has also been proven to be ineffective or less effective than traditional intelligence gathering‚ and it creates a slippery slope effect. The four basic principles of a democracy
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or afterward.) Today I observed 2 emergency hearings and a detention hearing. The first hearing was a juvenile sent to detention for trying to commit suicide by hanging himself at his foster home‚ the foster mom had to cut him down‚ he was sent to FMC‚ assessed and then released‚ he was sent to detention for his own protection. CPS is currently looking for another placement. -Update- the juvenile attempted suicide in detention‚ he has been put on suicide watch. The second hearing was
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CONCEPT OF CONSTITUTION AND THE INTRODUCTORY ARTICLES CONSTITUTION: * Latin word- CONSTITUO – fixed‚ established and settled. * Organic and fundamental law of a state. * Body of rules and principles in accordance with which the powers of sovereignty are regularly exercised. * Written instrument by which the fundamental powers of government are established‚ limited and defined and by which those powers are distributed among the several departments. SUPREMACY AND PURPOSE OF CONSTITUTION:
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Running Header: Intelligence-Led Policing and Civil Liberties Intelligence Led Policing and Civil Liberties Dorothy Savage PSF5308 Law Enforce Intel-Led Police Instructor: Dr. Arthur Hayden December 13‚ 2013 According to Peterson (2005) Intelligence-led policing is a collaborative enterprise based on improved intelligence operations and community-oriented policing and problem solving‚ which the field has considered beneficial for many years. To implement
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I. THE FOURTH AMENDMENT SHOULD CONTROL MALICIOUS PROSECUTION CLAIMS INVOLVING PRETRAIL DETENTIONS WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE Years ago this Court instructed that the Fourth Amendment should be used to analyze allegedly unconstitutional “detention[s] of suspects pending trial.” Gerstein v. Pugh‚ 420 U.S. 103‚ 125 n.27 (1975). Since then this Court has reaffirmed that the “detention of criminal suspects” is “governed by the provisions of the Fourth Amendment.” Albright v. Oliver‚ 510 U.S. 266‚ 274 (1994)
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In 1996‚ the sentencing provisions of the Criminal Code were significantly amended‚ after RCAP made distinct recommendations in 1995 (Proulx‚ 2000). Among the amendments was section 718.2(e)‚ which instructed judges to look for alternatives to imprisonment that are reasonable to the circumstance‚ “…with particular attention to the circumstance of Aboriginal offenders”. The governments began to realize that overrepresentation was a major problem‚ and the reality that Indigenous people were being incarcerated
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Seventy-three percent of students say they keep their phones on them during detentions according to the Journal. Many kids say they feel safer when they have their cell phones on them. If you keep your phone in your bag during detention‚ then students would have their phones with them. Also‚ if they have to keep their phone in their bag they would not get distracted. The rules giving your phone to the teacher during detentions or Friday school should be changed to keep it in your backpack so people
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punishment and deterrence. Juvenile detention officers work with incarcerated youth. Although juvenile detention officers deal with many of the same realities as other corrections officers‚ juvenile detention officers have the opportunity to assist young offenders in their attempts to be rehabilitated into responsible adults. In a sense a Juvenile detention officer is the perfect blend of a jailer and social worker. While the Juvenile detention officers must be alert and tough enough to work
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