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    masterpiece of what’s really going on to the streets nowadays and not only to the streets but also a film of self-realizing and life encounters on real life. It is not just on a perspective of an American football player who came from teenage detention juvenile centers but it is a film that can be reflected upon to other situations of life. There are three things in life I learned in this film which was somewhat‚ a life-changing for me. The first one was choices and living on its consequences. We are

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    management and long term decreases in recidivism rates of juvenile offenders and a gradual nationwide decrease in the amount of truancy and truancy related programs. Students will be given a questionnaire and a face to face interview and asked to compare classroom management and instruction styles of teachers that they would rate as good and teachers that would be rated as bad. In addition‚ comparisons would be done between the responses of the juvenile offender and the honor student.

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    Kids For Cash

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    brought out in handcuffs‚ went before a juvenile judge and spent six months in a detention center followed by probation. In 2008 the truth as to why teens were sentenced to extreme punishments for the acts committed was revealed. I was living in Philly when I started seeing the news broadcasting about‚ Wilkes-Barre a small town in Pennsylvania where two Juvenile judges were being accused of receiving kickbacks to ensure the private juvenile detention center didn’t have empty beds. Judge Ciavarella

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    True Notebooks

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    to pass judgment on others by their appearance or from what they hear from the media. Society ignores the things juvenile delinquents went through growing up or what they had to experience in order to get by in life. People need to realize that there is always a story behind a child’s action or behavior. The boys like the ones from True Notebooks end up in the juvenile detention center because they lack a positive role model in their lives. Every child wants to be someone in life but in order for

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    trouble they want to act like they care. I’m not blaming everything on the parent‚ but they have a big hand in what happens with their child. If the child should do anything illegal at the alternative school‚ they will be sent to a juvenile detention center. Most of these students are released the same day depending on the severity of the crime‚ but

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    determine the potential risk or harm an individual poses to society should he or she be released from detention or custody. The following is an example of how the Missouri and Washington Risk Assessment worksheets can be utilized when applied in two completely different cases; it is important to remember that the primary purpose of both Risk Assessment Scales are to identify specific classifications of juvenile offenders. Offenders are classified on a scale of being low‚ moderate‚ or at high-risk behavior

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    Subject: Overcrowding of Juvenile Correctional Facilities Introduction Within the juvenile correctional facilities community‚ there are public and private institutions that both experience and suffer from similar problems. The problems that face these facilities are overcrowding. Through close comparison of the major issues with juvenile correctional facilities‚ the institutions are revealed to be ineffective with rehabilitation and to have negative impacts on the juveniles. Thus‚ insight will

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    Bennie Rosato

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    2015. The main character‚ Bennie Rosato‚ is tied to the story because she is a trial lawyer‚ owning her own law firm with her partners. Flashback to 2002‚ Bennie takes on a juvenile case even though she doesn’t practice juvenile law. Her case involves Jason Leftkavick an eleven year old boy thrown into the Juvenile detention center for getting into a fight with another child‚ Richie Grusini‚ at school. Bennie later gets fired from the case because she had relations with Richie’s uncle‚ Declan‚ which

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    regulation and an emphasis on skills training (Weis & Toolis 2009). The intention of boot camps is to shock juveniles into complying and exhibiting more pro-social behaviors. Unfortunately‚ this method of rehabilitation is not based on empirical evidence nor supported by research (Garascia‚ 2005). Boot camps are controversial because they are not proven to be effective or appropriate for treating juvenile delinquents (Garascia‚ 2005). The general structure of boot camps is modeled after military basic training

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    Chapter 13 Notes

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    Chapter 13 Notes Juvenile Court & its Jurisdiction • Juvenile Court- Act in best interest of child & public • Family Court- broader jurisdiction personal & household problems (ex. Child support‚ custody‚ paternity) Court Case Flow: • Cases referred to juvenile court declined as of ’05 9% from ‘97 • 73% processed were males People in Juvenile Courtroom: • Defense attorney- o Juveniles have right to counsel; must be provided if facing incarceration

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