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    Mentally Disordered Offender

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    Healthcare delivery for mentally disordered offenders (MDO) in Medium secure Services (MSU) It is a requirement from the government policies that wherever possible‚ mentally disordered offenders (MDO)‚ must receive a comprehensive programme of care and treatment that is tailored to their specific individual needs (Wilson‚ 2004).The National service framework for mental health (DH‚1999)‚ requires healthcare services provided for MDOs to match those available for the general public. MDOs

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    Monique Priorello November 5‚ 2012 Constitutional Law Prisoner Rights Of all forms of punishment‚ the death penalty is by far the most controversial and also the most rarely used. Capital punishment was once almost the only penalty applied to convicted felons. By the time of the American Revolution‚ the English courts had defined more than 200 felonies‚ all of which were “capital offenses”. However‚ many death penalties were not carried out; instead‚ offenders were pardoned or banished

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    Volcanoes affect people in many ways‚ some are good‚ some are not. Some of the bad ways are that houses‚ buildings‚ roads‚ and fields can get covered with ash. As long as you can get the ash off (especially if it is wet)‚ your house may not collapse‚ but often the people leave because of the ash and are not around to continually clean off their roofs. If the ashfall is really heavy it can make it impossible to breathe. Lava flows are almost always too slow to run over people‚ but they can certainly

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    History of Special Needs Provision in Ireland Swan (2000) described special needs education in Ireland in three phases‚ the neglect and denial‚ the special needs school and the integration or inclusion. The national Education System was first set up in 1831 making it compulsory for all children from age six to fourteen. By 1892 children had to go to school for 150 days in the year. At this time the government only seen children with special needs as being purely medical‚ and that it wasn’t necessary

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    meaning that texting and driving is equivalent to driving blind for 100 yards at 55 miles per hour. Distracted driving is a worldwide problem that has injured and took many lives and using cellular devices behind the wheel is mostly to blame. The “Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration” stated that “texting while driving creates a crash risk 23 times greater than driving without distraction.” The dangers of automobiles were great before the use of cell phones and since cellular devices became

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    Overall Theme: Segregation‚ integration or inclusion? Considerations: - History of special needs in the UK - Conceptualisation of special needs - Definitions of integration - Definitions of inclusion - Definitions of segregation - Who should be taught what? Why? - Purposes of education - Personal EXP Within the United Kingdom over the past few decades‚ the matter of the way in which children with learning difficulties go about being educated has been a significant issue. Essentially‚

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    Daniel Duranceau Econ 1 Wegman 29 September 2012 The Federal Reserve System of the United States There are seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Dr. Ben S. Bernanke (chairman) was born in December 1953 (age 59) in Augusta‚ Georgia‚ and grew up in Dillon‚ South Carolina. He received a B.A. in economics in 1975 from Harvard University (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in economics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ben S. Bernanke began a second term

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    partaking in have been theft‚ robbery‚ extortion and rape. They do many types of vandalism to the city. Gangs are a violent reality that people have to deal with in today’s cities. They are a direct result of human being’s personal

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    State Level Society

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    groups and not in state-level civilizations. In order for a civilization to be recognized as a state level society‚ it must meet certain criteria. There must be centralized political power‚ social classes based on access to resources‚ occupational specialization‚ coercive military or police force‚ multiple levels of decision making‚ writing or complex record keeping‚ and urban centers controlling periphery.1 There are a variety of competing theories of the origins of state level societies. In “A Theory

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    America’s prison system is broken. The purpose of prison is to teach a lesson of wrongdoing. Taking away the freedoms of an individual is designed to change the behavior or at least that is the intention. However‚ America makes up 5% of the world population but 25% of the world’s prison population. The recidivism rate for federal prisons according to the United States Sentencing Commission is nearly half at 49.3% within 8 years of release (www.ussc.gov). That rate for state prisons is even higher

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