my internship at was the Madison County Probation Department. I was assigned to the Edwardsville Hillsboro Satellite Office. The staff of the Madison County Probation Department is responsible for the supervision and services to both adult and juvenile offenders on probation. They work to rehabilitate offenders by conducting offender risk assessments‚ enforce the conditions of court orders‚ and help to ensure that the offenders are aware of the impact of their crime on the victims and the public
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Importance of Peer Review Melanie Cleek Walden University NURS 6000‚ Week 2‚ Strategies for Online Success May 12‚ 2011 The Importance of Peer Review Peer review is the process that scholarly journals use to check articles for accuracy. The article is submitted to a group of experts to make sure the article is factual‚ not plagiarized‚ has the most current data‚ and so forth. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of peer review and how
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The influence of peer pressure Peer pressure is followed by a negative connotation as negative influence. Most people think of peer pressure as influence to do negative things like smoking‚ taking illicit drugs‚ drinking alcohol‚ having promiscuous sex‚ engaging in criminal behavior‚ involvement in violence‚ joining gangs‚ and so on. However‚ there is always that dual perspective of negatives and positives towards the subject. When you glance at the positive affirmations of peer pressure such as
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Peer Leader Essay From July to present day‚ being a Peer Leader has had its ups and downs. Of the many trails and failure‚ our overall mission will be completed. Besides the task of make Teachers Preparatory School more college bound‚ I gained personal benefits that I wouldn’t have been able to receive on my own. I will carry these benefits to the work place and exercise it during life. Form my Peer Leading experience my commitment leave change the most. This year I was over whelmed by stress
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Controversies dealing with juveniles’ age in which they can be charged as adults‚ giving them life sentences in prison without parole‚ the application of neuroscience‚ and the roles both the federal and state governments have played in shaping the policies towards justice reform have been discussed at length for the better half of United States (U.S.) History (755). Dating as far back as 1825‚ the United States of America has delved into the topic of juvenile justice (755). Today‚ advocates of the
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Juveniles in the Justice System Name: Kelly Liberty Instructor: Jerry Glover Course: Criminology Date: 13 July 2013 Juveniles in the Justice System Introduction Children are not just born delinquents; by law‚ a juvenile delinquent is a person under the age of eighteen who is found guilty in a court of law for committing some sort of crime. Juveniles are normally products of circumstances‚ chance‚ and their surroundings. Juveniles who are in an area of violence and crime
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A human being under the age of eighteen gets in trouble with the law; the case will be heard in the juvenile justice system. That was not the case. The idea of a separate justice system for juveniles is just over one hundred years old. Juvenile delinquents are minors‚ usually defined as being between the age of ten and eighteen‚ who have committed some act that violates the law. However‚ these acts aren’t called “crimes” as they would be for adults. Rather‚ crimes committed by minors are called “Delinquent”
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u09a1 Unit 9 Assignment Summary of Peer- Reviewed Article A NEW QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO MEASURE PERCEIVED WORK-RELATED STRESS IN ITALIAN EMPLOYEES By Cevenini‚ G.‚ Fratini‚ I.‚ & Gambassi‚ R. (2012) Cevenini‚ Fratini‚ and Gambassi (2012) goal was to give accurate quantification of what participants perceived occupational stress to be. Their study is a new quantitative approach of questionnaire data collection and analysis. They chose a statistical multivariate procedure. Their aim
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Leadership and Peer Support Final Reflection Guide Mihalitsa Hatzisavvas At the beginning of this year I had no idea which class I wanted to take last. I had not many options‚ I went from Law to English to Media then I was just going to take a spare. One day as I was walking down to my next class I heard Mr.Karr talking about the Leadership class and how it only had one student
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JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM FINAL PAPER FOUNDATIONS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM-CJS/200 April 21‚ 2013 Pilar Atterberry‚ Student Prof.: BRENDA BARNEY INTRODUCTION The rate of juvenile offenders has decreased in some states are since its spike in the early 1990’s. The purpose of the juvenile justice system is to better to preserve the rights of youthful offenders rights‚ so they are not just thrown into the adult jail/prison
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