More than 200‚000 children are prosecuted in adult courts each year. All 50 states can prosecute a child‚ under the age of 16 years old‚ as an adult (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Between 1992 and 1997‚ forty two states and the District of Columbia enacted legislation to enable juvenile offenders to be transferred to adult prisons (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Missouri and Indiana lowered the minimum age for transfer to an adult facility from 16 years of age to the incredibly young age of ten (Flesch
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Children of all ages desire the love and support of adults. Infants are very curious and are able to learn a lot on their own just by exploring. However I feel having an interested and engaged adult is still needed in order for an infant to learn. The interference of an adult only encourage the child’s development. Well a child is playing adults have many opportunities to support their learning. For example‚ if an infant is playing with a car an adult can be their supporting the child’s learning
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Evidence-Based-Policing Written by Desiree Rosch Instructor Atthur Moghalu Introduction to Criminal Justice Evidence-based policing is a style of policing that uses research to create or change policies to increase effectiveness. Lawrence W Sherman‚ an academic criminologist‚ is credited with making the term Evidence-based Policing (EBP) popular.During a lecture Sherman stated‚ "Police practices should be based on scientific evidence about what works
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anxiety disorder (Dattilio & Kendall 2000). Research has indicated that people with learning disabilities are more prevalent to psychological disorders than the general population (Hassiotis et al 2000) consequently it could be hypothesised that prevalence rates of anxiety disorders are similar if not greater within the learning disabled population. Professional literature suggests that cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) has been an effective treatment against anxiety disorder (Beck 1995) however;
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Name: Professor: Course: Date: Evidence-based Design and its Importance to Organisations Q1. Evidence- based design also referred to as EBD is a field of study that emphasize credible evidence so as to influence the end results. EBD has become so popular in healthcare and its importance can be drawn from its guiding principle and aim; EBD aims at improving patient and staff well-being‚ the patient healing‚ stress reduction and safety. The concept of evidence- based design is drawing a lot of interests
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Should Children be Tried as Adults? | Rick Penor 5/12/2010 | Juvenile Justice: Should children be tried as adults? Are youth capable of fully understanding the consequences that their actions may cause or are they mentally incapable of processing that information? Juveniles commit crimes just like adults. Sometimes the crimes they commit are heinous‚ but does that mean they are no longer a child? I believe there may be special cases when a youth should be tried as an adult‚ but in most
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Benchmark: Evidence -Based Practice (EBP) Summary Shannon Marcus Grand Canyon University- NUR-504 Debra Finch-Instructor May 26‚ 2015 Introduction Nasogastric (NG) tube placement is a common procedure done in pediatric and neonatal patient care settings. However‚ there is little research that exists in today’s vast amount of medical information that conclusively proves the safest and most accurate way to verify placement. Although there have been several research and antidotal
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Methods of Insulin Delivery {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} DIABETES RESEARCH PAPER Pharmacology 8 a.m. New Medications & Methods of Insulin Delivery APA 1 Kelsie Marie Hargrays St. Cloud Technical College Abstract {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} The research I did was on new medications and methods of insulin delivery. I researched a few new medications that help treat type 1 & 2 diabetes. I also researched about new methods of delivery and found many different
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Research Article Critique-Childhood Type II diabetes and Obesity University of Phoenix Research Article Critique Research critique enables nurses as a research consumer to evaluate the scientific merit of the study and decide how the results may be useful in practice. Critiquing involves intensive scrutiny of a study‚ including its strengths and weaknesses‚ statistical and clinical significance and the generalizability of the results. This paper will critique a medical quantitative study
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examination. Teachers and aspiring teachers can use either of the three types of validity evidence ( content-related‚ criterion-related‚ and construct related) to ensure that the examination results will provide a clear reflection of the student’s understanding and knowledge of the subject. The content-related evidence validity is the easiest to apply amongst the three validity evidence type. Content-related evidence validity refers to the extent an examination covered all the important knowledge and
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