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    AUSTRALIAN JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEMS The average national rate at which young people are placed in custody in Australia is 31 in every 100‚000. The rate at which young people are placed in custody in NSW is 38 in every 100‚000. This compares with 56 in Western Australia‚ 99 in the Northern Territory and 9 in Victoria where greater emphasis is placed on diversionary and preventative programs. Several broad observations and trends in Australian juvenile justice can be identified at the national

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    Since its inception the juvenile justice system has been highly criticized and critiqued because it has taken many shifts in regards to the path of development and effective strategies to intervene in the lives of youthful offenders. Julian Mack (1909) states that the court was formed as a result of society’s general query about the states duty to protect‚ guide and care for those youthful offenders that reside within its borders that have committed law violations and unacceptable moral behavior

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    in higher positions abuse their power? The government should be able to use surveillance to maintain order. The government should be able to use their power‚ but they shouldn’t take advantage of the fact that they can see what’s going on. If you worked hard to get in a high position like the White House‚ you most likely deserve to use surveillance. The person who is using surveillance should be someone who has integrity‚ someone you know wouldn’t abuse their power. The government needs to have people

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    Case Study: Too Much Stress? You Decide Summary of Case: Donald Knolls worked for International Gateway Airport (IGA) as an air traffic control supervisor and he began to experience depression due to the stress of his job in 2007. He was granted a disability leave by IGA’s physician and after eight months‚ his personal physician‚ an expert in depression treatment and a licensed consulting psychologist‚ believed he could go back to work. IGA sent him to their physician who granted him the disability

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    In American life race has played and will continue to be an important role in the criminal justice system. For several years the criminal system has failed to maintain “justice” and will conclude to an answer depending on the victim’s profile. Many cases are taken to court but surprisingly lots of them don’t win or aren’t able to achieve justice for the reason that everything falls in the same category which is depending on the victims profile. Statistics have shown that the number of African Americans

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    Elizabeth Prest Foundations of Criminal Justice Systems: CRJS101 - 1404A – 09 Unit3 - Individual Project September 8‚ 2014 Here in the United States the law is derived into four sections. These four sources are constitutional law‚ statutory‚ administrative regulatory law‚ stare decisis‚ and the common law. These four laws combined makes criminal law. Constitutional law consists of state‚ namely‚ executive‚ legislature‚ and judiciary branches of government. Statutory laws are subordinate to

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    Rough Draft - Unit 2 EA Students these days just have too much homework. It wears them out; kids have a life too. Kids need to be active not curled up with pencil and paper for 1-2 hours‚ a day sometimes more! Kid can be anti-social or un-active that way.Student should have no homework at all. Parents do the homework anyways and Kid already have enough work to do at school. 48% of parents do the kids homework. That’s about half the time of work

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    There are two major models of the criminal justice system‚ the Consensus Model and the Conflict Model. Discuss these models‚ how do they relate? How are they different? Do you see any issues with them? Please support your answers. According to our reading there are two models to today’s Justice System‚ the Consensus model‚ and the Conflict model. The Consensus Model of Criminal Justice is “a criminal justice perspective that assumes that the systems’ components work together harmoniously to achieve

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    I believe that prejudice exists in the criminal justice system. Numerous studies have evidence that have shown prejudice on defendants of color. Social scientists conclude that compared to white defendants‚ minority groups face a greater chance of prison and severe sentences for identical offenses (Killing With Prejudice). Nearly 51 percent of individuals in a study conducted in Philadelphia‚ believe that police are more likely to use excessive force against black or Hispanic suspects than white

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    Tiffany Zhang EN105 Silva Byer Response Paper of A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? Type 2 1. “It was principally the influence of Christianity……By limiting excellence (virtus in Latin) to moral virtue only; Christianity set beauty adrift--as an alienated‚ arbitrary‚ superficial enchantment. And beauty has continued to lose prestige.” I think this passage is very significant‚ because there was an old saying in China “The beauty of inside is the real beauty‚ nobody could keep a beautiful

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