Juvenile delinquency along with the punishments associated with it seems to be one of the touchier subjects in today’s society. When it comes to juveniles‚ there are a number of different things that lead them to commit crimes. Things like the level of crime in their community‚ the bond they have with their parents‚ and even their economic status all lead juveniles to crime. In order for communities to even start to deter crime among juveniles‚ they need to start implementing a number of sources
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Outline and discuss your understanding of the Minnesota Model as a response to problem drug use. Student No: 109495185. Introduction Addiction is a chronic disease‚ and can be progressive‚ relapsing and fatal (Heyman‚ 2009). There are many models of addiction theories. The disease model‚ which sees addiction as a medical condition along the same lines of diabetes and arthritis‚ is the most widely known in the public due to its depiction in media and film as a result of the popularity of Alcoholics
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Protective and risk factors behaviours of young people related to drug use. My health issue is drug use. Young teenagers goes through the phase of adolescence when they have to start making decisions relating to themselves and their health too. Sometimes this procedure of making decisions can be hard for them as there are protective and risk behaviours associated with it which they might or might not be aware of it and ignore it as most of the people do. Protective behaviours are those
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Nowadays the use of drugs is very common in our life. There is no precise definition for drug‚ as the meaning of it follows according to how the users intend to use it. Some may called it medicine but some may called it death‚ but the main purpose of drugs is actually to reduce pain or kill some cancer cells in our body. Unfortunately‚ many people especially those uneducated teenagers tend to misuse drugs. They have no idea how it can both harm them physically and mentally. I would say that the
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Corrections and Treatment Felicia Spafford CJS/240 November 24‚ 2013 Jeffery Beasley In this paper I will be covering over the following: juvenile corrections and community-based treatment programs‚ including covering over community-based treatment‚ institutionalization‚ and aftercare programs. Corrections and Treatment Juveniles needs to learn from their crimes‚ so that is where the consequences comes into play for the juvenile’s criminal behavior
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Drug Use to Drug Abuse Drug use becomes drug abuse in my opinion when it starts to effect any of the seven dimensions of wellness. The seven dimensions of wellness are emotional‚ intellectual‚ social‚ occupational‚ spiritual‚ environmental‚ and physical. Drugs effect emotional wellness by increasing your stress level creating the fight or flight response in the brain to react more. This can happen while you are under the influence of a drug and your stress level elevates due to worrying
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Teenagers are smarter than most adults give them credit. Teenagers are very sneaky and will commit crimes because they think or know they can get away with it. According to the Choice Theory‚ the threat of punishment does not deter juvenile delinquency. “Choice Theory holds that youths will engage in delinquent and criminal behavior after weighing the consequences and benefits of their actions; delinquent behavior is a rational choice made by a motivated offender who perceives that the chances of
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The response to drug treatment seen in the elderly is very different to that seen with younger patients. Altered drug response in the elderly is often associated with changes in the body that result in modification to the pharmacokinetics of the drugs in older people. Absorption changes result from Morphological changes to the gastrointestinal mucosa. GI function changes have an effect on enzymatic breakdown‚ dissolution‚ and drug ionization which then leads to alterations in oral drug absorption
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37‚000 people died from drug related overdoses.” Many people do not understand why or how other people become addicted to drugs. Substance abuse is a growing problem that not only affects the person who is abusing alcohol or drugs but also affects the lives of those who are close to the abuser. Substance abuse is the abuse of any substance. A drug is a substance that modifies one or more of the body’s functions when it is consumed. It is often mistakenly assumed that drug abusers lack moral principles
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Justin Throughout the years modern culture has glamourized drug usage through popular culture such as music artist‚ videos‚ and celebrities. The media usually targets teenage to young adult because they are yet at an impressionable age. According to US Health and Human Services Department studies show by the twelfth grade‚ about half of adolescents have abused an illicit drug at least once. The most commonly used drug is marijuana but adolescents can find many abused substances‚ such as prescription
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