Juvenile Detainees Acorn T Fautanu CRJ 303 Corrections Prof. Theresa Cruz November 20‚ 2012 Criminal Justice and the juvenile justice systems are almost the same but are different. When corrections’ officials have to deal with juvenile detainees‚ such a situation needs to be dealt with care. In identifying such situations‚ we will look at child development‚ punishment and deterrence. Juvenile detention officers work with incarcerated youth. Although juvenile
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Description of Social Issue/Concern My concerned issue is juvenile delinquency. The reason I choose juvenile delinquency is because I felt it can be explained well by looking at the social learning theory. According to Siegel & Welsh (2012) social learning theory is applied to criminal behavior‚ theory stressing the importance of learning through modeling others who are criminal; criminal behavior is a function of copying or learning criminal conduct from others. The social learning theory argues
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In the article “Why some schools are giving letter grades a fail‚” written by Erin Millar in April 2014 for the Globe and Mail newspaper‚ various perspectives of assessing students’ work is discussed. Millar begins by attributing the opinion of Ms. Wolfram‚ who is a parent of a student in Grade 2 as she states “some of were scared to change” after realizing that schools are slowly discontinuing to award letter grades in elementary schools. As technology continues to improve each year‚ the education
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Lily Jayne Senner How did the Bolsheviks Survive the early days? After the October Coup in 1917‚ the Bolshevik’s power as the government of Russia was not completely solidified. This was mainly due to the vast opposition that the Bolsheviks experienced from all over Russia along with other pressing issues such as food shortages‚ an exhausting war‚ and a crippled economy. Yet the Bolsheviks not only survived the early day‘s of empowerment but went on to rule Russia for the next 70 years. This
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techniques through the use of medication and researched programs. Despite these advancements smoking has continued to be a detrimental problem to the American public. According to the CDC‚ “about 1‚000 persons younger than 18 years of age begin smoking on a daily basis.” 1 Many of the cessation programs directed at youths are still young and creating names for themselves. As a result of all the research that has been done regarding the cessation programs for youths‚ three effective steps have been found
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Relapse Prevention Plan Margaret Farley Grand Canyon University PCN 501 November 26‚ 2014 Relapse Prevention Plan Jed‚ a 38 – year old welder‚ enrolled in the treatment center after his arrest resulting from drunken driving (DUI/DWI) (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism‚ n.d.). His lawyer has advised him to stop drinking and get treatment until his trial date‚ which is in approximate two months. Jed does not believe that he will serve any jail time‚ but feels that treatment could
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Delinquency Deterrence Punishment for violating the laws can be lenient or they can be harsh‚ and they can be used to prevent others from committing crimes as well as deterring people from becoming repeat offenders. People assume that juveniles are not rational beings; meaning that they do not know the difference between right and wrong and that they do not understand the consequences following their actions‚ however that assumption is wrong because juveniles can be deterred from committing
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at-risk adults‚ and points out that research has been done to find out whether exercise-based programs are successful at preventing and reducing the annual number of falls. The authors acknowledge the gap between the proven evidence and the real-world application. There is hardly any communication between healthcare providers who treat these elderly patients‚ and the community providers‚ who teach exercise programs targeting clients who are at risk for fall. In this article‚ the authors provide suggestions
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Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD)‚ the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE); approximately 600 Special Agents of the Bureau of Customs‚ Customs Agency Service; and‚ other federal offices merged to create the DEA.[4] From the early 1970s‚ DEA headquarters was located at 1405 I ("Eye") Street NW in downtown Washington‚ D.C. With the overall growth of the agency in the 1980s (owing to the increased emphasis on federal drug law enforcement efforts) and a concurrent growth in the
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weaker. Then in 476 C.E. Rome finally fell. That was a surprise to the whole world. They collapsed due to many reason. But the three most important reason were‚ Government‚ Military‚ and Natural Disasters. Government was a big reason why Rome collapsed. They did not have any good leaders or rules that could keep a big city together. The government was focussed on building larger structures and was not concerned about keeping their city under control. They were not making or enforcing rules to make
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