I have aspired to be a police officer my whole life and found it only fitting to interview a Police Officer from the Northern Virginia area. The officer told me of his own aspirations to become a cop and it only furthered my motivation. He said his goal as a police officer was/is to make positive influential changes for his peers by protecting and serving his community to his fullest potential. Before returning back to patrol the streets‚ the officer was a Student Resource Officer (SRO) at Herndon
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Seven Essential Interview Skills Kathy Thomas Criminal Justice Communications September 28‚ 2012 You are a probation officer who was conducting a home visit for probationer Bobby Jean. You walk up to the door‚ she answers‚ and you notice a bag of marijuana sitting on the kitchen table. She promises that it is not hers. You provide her with a urine screen and it is clean. Based on the above scenario‚ please respond to the following questions: * What would you do? * Would this scenario
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forgery‚ fraud‚ vandalism as well as many others. In 2009‚ there were 32‚638‚900 youths in the United States and 1‚906‚600 of them were arrested for a type of crime. (Puzzanchera & Adams‚ 2012). There are many options that the Department of Juvenile Justice System can lead towards such as punishment or treatment‚ but the rehabilitation depends on the juvenile at hand. Most research suggests there is a reduced recidivism amongst juveniles who receive treatment. Treatment options are the ideal way to deal
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Evelyn Duron 1/29/2013 L202 Justice Served? In Sherman Alexie’s poem‚ “Capital Punishment”‚ a part that was very interesting‚ yet confusing was when the narrator was being sympathetic. The narrator was very considerate of the prisoners. In the poem‚ Alexie makes the narrator be a cook at a jail that had the death row. Perhaps Alexie made the narrator be a cook instead of someone else like a guard or a warden because the cook would not represent the law; the cook just works for the jail. Readers of the poem
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The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate both the welfare principals and punitive principals that are paramount to the youth justice system‚ firstly by looking at what is meant by welfare approaches and how they have been used in adapting the Children’s Hearing System that is used in Scotland today when dealing with young offenders. Then looking at punitive approaches‚ how they are also used in dealing with young offenders and how they appear to be re-emerging back into the system in the
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Social Justice Black Children in Education This essay aim to; discuss inequalities in education in relation to black children and how the principles of social justice affects them. The term ‘social justice’ can be defined in many ways. However; it is closely related to equality‚ fairness and solidarity. Social justice is seen to be occurring if an individual or community is treated without any prejudice regardless of their; race‚ gender‚ age or cultural beliefs. The term social justice suggests
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Clay Thompson article‚ “The Lost Boys: California is Trying Kids as Adults-and Locking Them Up for Life. No One Knows How Many”‚ on the project censored website‚“ In California alone minors as young as 14 are being punished into the adult criminal justice system. As a result children face adult punishments sometimes as severe as life in prison” (Thompson). We have age limits on things because it is quite obvious that youth are not fully capable of making the right decisions. For one‚ the brains of
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Barn Burning Argument "He went on down the hill toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing- the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night. He did not look back." Sarty’s final decision in Barn Burning is usually said to represent his decision to uphold truth over family. However‚ Sarty’s decision is hasty and has little benefit. His choice essentially consists of fleeing his problems; probably not the best
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Juvenile Justice To many Americans today‚ the country is a hostage-but not from oversea terrorism as one might expect to think. No today‚ we live in fear from our own children; and these are the same young people who we are entrusting the future of this great country with. According to the Department of Justice report released in November‚ thirty-eight percent of those arrested for weapons offenses in 1995 were under the age of eighteen (Curriden 66). In the same report‚ the Bureau of Justice Statistics
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research. You will see that in the end Lena’s life no matter how terrible it was‚ it wasn’t all in vain‚ and still today she is remembered for her last heartfelt words and calm disposition. Ulysia Gayle Julie Warner English December 3‚ 2012 Justice for Lena Lena Baker was a black woman born with three strikes against her. The first was that she was born in the south. The second was that she was born black. The third was that she was born poor. She was a black woman born in a small
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