institutional care to a less restrictive setting is not opposed by the affected individual‚ and the placement can be reasonably accommodated‚ taking into account the resources available to the state and the needs of others with mental disabilities”(Justice R. Ginsburg‚ Olmstead decision). Under this act‚ institutionalized individuals now have the choice on whether to stay in their current facility or to move out into the community. After the Olmstead decision‚ the U.S. Department of Health and Human
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Checkpoint Week 4‚ Case Study Critique CJS/240 March 14‚ 2012 Checkpoint Week 4‚ Case Study Critique Some of the possible reasons caseworker were not aware of the conditions in the Jackson home could have been due to the fact that the Jackson made have put up a front every time the caseworker came over by pretending to like and do for the kids‚ or it could have been that the caseworker knew about the condition but just did not care. It is very hard to believe that these caseworkers really
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When I started this class 9 weeks ago I did not know much about the different types of diversity that we have in the United States. Since then I have been able to learn about different people and how to better relate to them and their needs. Diversity is the relation that holds between two entities when and only when they are not identical. Since people can be identified by several different things it is important for you to know the different things that is considered part of their identity. I
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Justice System Position Ashley Carte CJS/240 Lydia Sam July 2‚ 2013 The criminal justice system is designed to make sure to punish those that have broken the law and make sure to protect society from the delinquent. Many offenders will go to court‚ receive a jail sentence‚ do the time sentenced to‚ and be released. Crime is mostly always followed by punishment. There are many important factors that must be considered and taken into effect. Punishment is a good factor to be set
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CJS/220 Cayla Flowers April 27‚ 2014 Juvenile crime rates in the United States fell to a new 32-year low in 2013. In 2012 there were around 60‚000 violent crime arrests involving youths under the age of 18. From 2011 to 2012 there was a 10% decline in the number of youth arrests for all four offenses‚ which contributed to an overall drop of 36 percent since 2003. In 1994‚ police reported 500 violent youth crime arrests for every 100‚000 10-17-olds in the population. In 2008‚ the arrest rate
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Christena Isaac 1/29/12 CJS 240 Week 6 Assignment When a juvenile offender is committed of a crime there are different courses of action that the court may proceed with to help them become rehabilitated in the community. A juvenile offender can be offered a community based treatment or be institutionalized. A community based treatment can consist of probation‚ restitution‚ vocational programs‚ or counseling. Depending on the type of crime that is committed helps determine what is necessary
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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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Final Project – Evaluation of Information Strategies “To secure these inalienable rights to life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness‚ governments are instituted among men‚ deriving their powers from the consent of the governed…Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends‚ it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it‚ and to institute new government‚ laying its foundation on such principles‚ and organizing its powers in such form‚ as to them shall seem most likely to
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Final Project Public Awareness Melissa Silvia HCA 240 Instructor: Marnie Bingham 8/29/2010 Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is the condition in which the heart can ’t pump enough blood throughout the body. Heart failure does not mean that your heart has stopped working or is about to stop working‚ it is just an indicator that your body is no longer functioning at its full potential. CHF is most common among people 65 years old and over. The causes however‚ depend very much on the individual
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Associate Level Material Appendix B Statistics UCR and Self-Report Data Complete the matrix below. To complete this matrix‚ list two pros and two cons of Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data and two pros and two cons of self-report data. |Statistical Information |Pros |Cons | |Official Information: |One pro about the UCR is that it can be |One con about the UCR is that it only incudes
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