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    Crim131FOCUSPAPERS

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    Crim 131 Fresno County Jail On October 8th we visited Fresno County Jail. Fresno County Jail is ran by the Fresno County Sheriffs Office. According to the visitation there is not one specific watch commander‚ there are several different individuals that are watch commander which is dependent on the shift. The head of the agency or director is Sheriff Margaret Mims. The inmates at this particular institution are supervised by approximately 350 individuals ranging from correctional officers‚ sergeants

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    term “Superpredator” is given to Juveniles that murder someone. Society is fixated on the fact that Juveniles are dangerous to society and once they commit a crime‚ they can not be rehabilitated for the good of society. Juveniles are indecisive and sometimes don’t even know that they committed a crime because their mindset is still equivalent to a child. Personally‚ I believe that a Juvenile can change‚ because‚ it has happened before and it can keep happening. Juveniles should not be labeled as a “Superpredator”;

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    is it may reduce the possibility for students to do bad action. According to a research that the problem of students being absent from school is directly related to crimes of youth people. They said about 80% of the current offenders in youth detention centers in New York have records of being absent more than a month every year‚ and about 40% of the offenders have records of being absent for more than two months every year. If students attended the class‚ the possibility of young people committing

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    threatened to kill and told my mother to take me in‚ When I moved in with my mother‚ I became a victim to drugs‚ fighting‚ etc. A LONG LIST OF Bad behavior and addictions followed that led to the consequences of me being incarcerated and held in a Juvenile detention facility. I prayed and Asked God to get me out and he did just that. My viewed changed as I called on God to get me out of every problematic situation since then. Sure I’ve had my indecisive moments were I would reason within myself and battle

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    Assignment Criminal Sentencing includes: Juveniles Learning Lessons Deadline: ( )‚ Law - General Law In Chapter 1 of the text‚ our author talks about "putting it all into perspective." After reading chapters 1 and 2 and reviewing the video Young Kids‚ Hard Time (this video is recommended‚ but not required)‚ select one of the juveniles from your reading‚ the movie‚ or you may speak from personal experience and a particular juvenile in mind. Address the three questions in the following

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    Did you know Australia has a yearly intake of some 13‚000 refugees? Australia has an extremely generous intake of refugees‚ due to this‚ detention centres are over crowding‚ therefore‚ getting the bad name of ‘unsuitable for children’. The term detention centre is usually misinterpreted; detention centres provide a place for immigrants and asylum seekers to live in while their citizenship applications are being processed. For many refugees who enter Australia‚ their homelands have such bad conditions

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    Corrections and Treatment

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    Most juvenile institutions have some form of treatment program available to juveniles. The most common programs include: counseling‚ vocational and educational training‚ recreational programs and religious counseling. Two community based programs are guided group interaction (GGI) and positive peer culture (PPC). Guided group interaction is a program where a delinquent can acknowledge and solve personal problems with support from other members in the group. Individual members can be supportive and

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    The Juvenile Court each year focuses less on children in danger‚ and more on dangerous children‚ locking more away‚ sending more to be tried as adults‚ imposing stiffer sentences. And still‚ the fear grows; […] the fear of our own children”1. Chronicling his time as a counselor and writing teacher for delinquents in the juvenile justice system in Los Angeles‚ Inglewood‚ and Pomona; Edward Humes‚ author of No Matter How Loud I Shout‚ tracks the inefficiency and failures of the Juvenile Court systems

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    Measure twice cut once.

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    "Measure twice cut once..." is what most carpenters go by‚ but it can also be used for a guideline for ones life. What I mean is when someone is going to make a decision that is going to affect their life in a big or small way They should think about it before they go doing immediately. Finding out that you’ve messed up hurts really badly. I learned the hard way. My life was going good. I had decent grades at school‚ my family was getting along‚ and one Friday evening me and my older brother were

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    for your research paper‚ write a research proposal that includes the following: • Identify the topic and state the question you will answer in your research. Criminal justice to work in the area as a Probation Officer working in the Juvenile Hall • Provide the rationale for your research question. Refer to the Research Question Appendix on your Week Two student Web site for examples of identifying topics and generating research questions for that topic. 1. Working with gang

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