What was the social and historical context in which the juvenile court was created? What has been the fundamental difference between the procedures used in juvenile courts and those employed in criminal (adult) courts? Juvenile Court‚ authority charged with the disposition of legal actions involving children. One hundred years ago‚ the Illinois legislature enacted the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (1899 Ill. Laws 132 et seq.)‚ creating the first separate juvenile court. The policy debates raging
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creating a rank-order hierarchy‚ which Garland E. Allen‚ an American historian‚ describes as a hierarchy that is greatly influenced by the social context of the time and puts
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changing as I grew up. The longest I can remember living in a single place is when I spent four years living with my dad before he died. My mother was someone who kept their roots shallow. I moved so many times that at this point in my life the only one that I can remember is the day she and my dad split up. She’d found out my dad had a serious heart condition and didn’t want a sick man to hang around her house. I was sent with him‚ not that she would have told it that way. We packed up what we couldn’t
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My time in Evangel Student Care Centre ( Canberra ) has been an extraordinary taste of a unique experience for myself. My job scope is the role of a teacher/mentor for the children in the care centre. During the first day after making first contact with Ms Xiao‚ I gained knowledge of the basic routine of the centre and the general job scope of my volunteer work. I was then instructed to perform a counselling task for one of the children isolated in the counselling room due to his rebellious nature
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“Which Retirement Plan is Right for you?” There are many questions people ask themselves when they think about retirement options. Personally‚ I do not think enough people think about Their retirement options. Planning for retirement is very important for your financial future; Deciding on a retirement plan to suit your needs should be made after careful consideration. Many people depend on social security benefits for an income after they retire. Depending on your age‚ you might
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| Is terrorism a social construct? | With reference to India | | Radhika Dhingra | 12/7/2012 | My assignment focusses on how terrorism is a social construct. With special reference to India I have tried to accentuate factors that seem to reiterate on the above. | Do you think terrorism is a social construction‚ discuss it with suitable examples from the Indian context? Probably INTRODUCTION “The most significant contribution of sociological thinking to our understanding
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“As I Grew Older‚” by Langston Hughes is a poem about a young man is thinking about his goals and that he cannot achieve them because of racial prejudice. The theme of the poem is that prejudice is used to keep people from accomplishing their dreams. Hughes expresses this idea by using imagery‚ anaphora‚ and symbol. Throughout the poem‚ Hughes refers to different symbols to show the barriers between blacks and whites in society during that time period in the early 20th century. In the first stanza
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I grew up too fast. That’s really all I can say on the matter. I’ve lived with my grandparents since I was a few months old‚ due to ongoing family issues. Either way‚ my home life hasn’t exactly been normal. Despite the jealousy and inferiority complex I had as a child due to those things‚ my focus was my grandparents. I wanted to help them in any way I could because I could. Then my grandmother got sick. I was only in seventh grade‚ I had just got into a group therapy program for my anxiety and
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Social media’s development has broken up media’s entry barriers‚ empowering everyone to contribute information as a “journalist”. Therefore‚ the “subject” of social media’s has changed from traditional journalists to all the users. The following discussion will be based on this clarification. 1. Social Media Functions Self-expression: In the context of social media‚ self-expression has been enhanced to the main and fundamental function for mass individual users. Facebook and Twitter users
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“The Rose That Grew From Concrete” Tupac Shakur “The Blind Men and the Elephant” John Godfrey Saxe The story “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” by Shakur is a story about a rose that has grown from the concrete as mentioned in the title‚ speaking about how a rose grew against its odds using forms of personification and metaphors throughout the story. “The Blind Men and the Elephant” by Saxe is a story about six blind Indonesian men who went to see an elephant. Each of the men encountered the elephant
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