In partnership with Restorative Justice (RJ) Partners in Marina‚ CA I am designing a study that measures the impact of RJ in secondary schools in Monterey County. In contrast to zero-tolerance discipline policies‚ Restorative Justice (RJ) serves as an alternative disciplinary practice that encourages peer involvement and focuses on keeping students in school. While the benefits of RJ have been documented repeatedly in the criminal justice system there is a lack of peer-reviewed journal articles that
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write an essay and a letter of apology. I have learnt my lesson. This whole situation has made me realize how serious shoplifting really is and how bad it effects the community. I’m thankful I got the chance to go through the John Howard‚ Restorative Justice Program. I can ensure you this will never happen again‚ I can’t even descibe how guilty I feel‚ I never even though it would effect people because so many people do pay and they are making a fair profit but it was never really a topic. The way
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Pros and Cons of Prison Privatization Prisons are institutions that have specifically been designed to handle the members of the society who are under conviction of different crimes. The people who reside in the prisons are referred to as inmates or prisoners and the time they spend in the prisons depends on the imprisonment period. This period is dependent of the intensity of the crime committed. Once in the prisons‚ the inmates undergo rehabilitation‚ incapacitation‚ retribution and deterrence
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The Impact of Restorative approaches To conflict resolution in Youth Justice Restorative practices‚ which evolved from restorative justice‚ are a new field of study that has the potential to positively influence human behaviour and strengthen civil society around the world. (Wachtel‚ 2012) For this research paper I will look at the impact of restorative practice on the youth justice system here in Ireland from its beginning to its present state and compare
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1) Nuclear power generation does emit relatively low amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). The emissions of green house gases and therefore the contribution of nuclear power plants to global warming is therefore relatively little. Between mining the uranium‚ refining and enriching fuel‚ and finally to building and operating the plant‚ a big 1‚250 250-megawatt nuclear facility produces an estimated 250‚000 tons of carbon dioxide during its lifetime. In contrast‚ coal-fired plants produce close to 2 billion
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Antoine James September 29‚ 2010 Justice & Legal Theory Utilitarianism: Pros and Cons Random House Dictionary defines utilitarianism as “the ethical doctrine that virtue is based on utility‚ and that conduct should be directed toward promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number of persons. The father of utilitarianism‚ Jeremy Bentham believed that all human beings are motivated by minimizing pain and maximizing pleasure; therefore morality and justice should be determined on those
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Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation Vol. 23‚ No. 3‚ pp. 280–288 Copyright c 2007 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins The Oral Care Imperative The Link Between Oral Hygiene and Aspiration Pneumonia Minn N. Yoon‚ BSc; Catriona M. Steele‚ PhD Oral health has increasingly become a priority issue for healthcare agencies in North America and worldwide. This review article attempts to (1) inform various healthcare providers of the risk factors that can arise from poor oral hygiene
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Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization Jessica DeLong NAU Abstract Legalizing drugs has been debated for many years‚ especially legalizing marijuana which is considered a “soft” drug. There are positive and negative outcomes of legalizing the use of drugs. Over the next few pages I will discuss those outcomes. Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization Pros: By legalizing‚ the violent crime rates would drop significantly. With the drug cartels on the top of
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Pros and Cons of Vaccination In 1796‚ Edward Jenner invented the first vaccine‚ which was for the smallpox virus. (Google timeline) Centuries later‚ we now have a very large amount of vaccines that have been created with the purpose of protecting the human race from infectious diseases. The question is‚ how effective are these vaccines? Are they more beneficial or harmful to us? Are they serving their purpose? Could a person survive in this world without ever being immunized? In this small research
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the senate has to consider every presidential nominee. Adler does state how the Alliance of Justice says that it is the senate’s constitutional obligation to vote and hold a hearing for the nominee. He says that the senate is allowed to refuse to act on a nomination. But even though the senate is allowed to withhold there are still consequences and political risks if they continue to refuse the nominee. Pro: Ramsey‚ Michael. “Why the Senate Doesn’t Have to Act on Merrick Garland’s Nomination.” The
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