crime. There is no concrete evidence that correlates with the idea that an increase of incarceration aid in the decrease of crime rate. Needless to say there are high risk criminals that need to be housed permanently out of society but non-violent offenders don’t need incarceration but possibly rehabilitation not in a jail setting. Social forces are at play according to the lock em up article as it states “That means it is cheaper in most states to lock street criminals up than to allow them to be
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Abuse Where We Least Expect it: A look into the Hidden Lives of Nursing Homes Composition II Wednesday 2 pm – 5:40 pm Professor Ill Brittany Guilfoil Baker College Cass City Position Statement: Elderly family members are not any better off at a long-term care facility where they are often mistreated and neglected. I. Introduction A. Attention Grabber: Close your eyes imagine yourselves fifty years from today: Your family decides to leave you to your peace in a nursing home where you won’t
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ELDERLY PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 65 SHOULD HAVE TO RETAKE THEIR DRIVING TEST Abstract This paper talks about the risk of elderly drivers. I talks into detail of the health problems that elderly have. The things that elderly people have done and could do to put you or your loved ones in danger. It gives lots of real life examples of dangerous situation’s elderly have put themselves in and others. A recent story “Fatal crashes involving senior drivers renew debate over licensing‚ testing requirements”
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Running head: JUVENILE OFFENDERS: RACE AND ETHNICITY Juvenile Offenders: Race and Ethnicity University of Phoenix Juvenile Offenders: Race and Ethnicity "Researchers have long observed differences in rates of serious juvenile and adult offending among ethnic and racial groups in the United States. These differences have prompted competing theoretical interpretations and public policy debates. However‚ conclusions about the racial differences in serious and violent juvenile offending
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health care workers to invoke the reflexive question when working with the Hmong elderly. The reflexive question asks‚ where am I in this encounter with culture? What is my point of view? How is that perspective affecting my view of these events? How is this inquiry changing my understanding of myself and my culture? How well tuned is my instrument‚ namely‚ me? Pg.315 (Omohundro) When working with the Hmong elderly‚ health care workers should be mindful of the plight of the Hmong people. Understanding
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Epidemiology in the Elderly with Heart Disease Epidemiology in the Elderly with Heart Disease Public health promotes healthy living for each community through epidemiology. Disease prevention and control is the common goal of epidemiology‚ nursing practice‚ and public health. “Epidemiology is the study of the population in order to monitor the health of the population‚ understand the determinants of health and disease in the community‚ and investigate and evaluate interventions
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Depression Inventory for the Elderly (DIE) Depression is one of the most recurrently investigated psychological disorders within the area of medical R&D (Montorio & Izal‚ 1996). A number of exhaustive researches have been carried out to study its symptoms and impacts on different patients belonging to different personal and professional attributes and most of these researchers depicted that depression in the elderly people is very frequent and in spite of number of researches in this context
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Efficacy of Sexual Offender Treatment: Juvenile Sexual Offenders with Mental Health Diagnosis Lynetric Rivers Liberty University Abstract Juvenile sex offending has been on the rise over the past ten years. Juvenile sex offenders are best described between the ages of 12 and 17 years old. It has often been thought the percentage of sexual disorders in relation to juvenile sex offenders have been low. It is very possible they have simply been misdiagnosed. Dr. Fong describes hypersexual
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dangerous level. The overcrowding and citizen alarm about violence in the community have tended to force correctional administrators to find ways to release those men considered least dangerous back into the community (Allen et al. 314). Many male offenders were drug and alcohol abusers before they were sentenced. For example‚ in 1997 almost one third of the men in prison had been drinking at the time of their current offense and more than one third were under the influence of drugs. These issues have
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adults as: “…single or repeated acts‚ or lack of appropriate action‚ occurring within a relationship where there is an expectation of trust‚ which causes harm or distress to an older person.” Sadly‚ elder abuse is prevalent in our society and while elderly abuse may not be a new phenomenon‚ it is only recently that serious attention has been given to this form of violence. In 2004 there were 3‚370 incidents of violence against Canadians aged 65 and over reported to police services (Statistics Canada
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