I have aspired to be a police officer my whole life and found it only fitting to interview a Police Officer from the Northern Virginia area. The officer told me of his own aspirations to become a cop and it only furthered my motivation. He said his goal as a police officer was/is to make positive influential changes for his peers by protecting and serving his community to his fullest potential. Before returning back to patrol the streets‚ the officer was a Student Resource Officer (SRO) at Herndon
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Video Games And Parents – Why So Much Hate? In a recent survey that was conducted‚ it was discovered that what parents fear the most is not that their children will get addicted to drinking alcohol or watching pornographic videos. Their greatest fear is that their children will get obsessed with playing video games. You may be surprised at first‚ but when you think about it the results actually makes sense. Just take a look at the gaming consoles available today. You have the PlayStation
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University of Phoenix Material EthicsGame Simulation Worksheet Student Name: _Joselito R. Amancio_____ Facilitator: _Gwendolyn Harris______ Complete the interactive Ethics Game simulation‚ located on the course page on the University of Phoenix Student Web site for Week Three. You will be able to go through the simulation only one time‚ so please use this worksheet to take notes. The simulation will use the following decision model with the indicated critical decision points. You will want
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The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate both the welfare principals and punitive principals that are paramount to the youth justice system‚ firstly by looking at what is meant by welfare approaches and how they have been used in adapting the Children’s Hearing System that is used in Scotland today when dealing with young offenders. Then looking at punitive approaches‚ how they are also used in dealing with young offenders and how they appear to be re-emerging back into the system in the
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Social Justice Black Children in Education This essay aim to; discuss inequalities in education in relation to black children and how the principles of social justice affects them. The term ‘social justice’ can be defined in many ways. However; it is closely related to equality‚ fairness and solidarity. Social justice is seen to be occurring if an individual or community is treated without any prejudice regardless of their; race‚ gender‚ age or cultural beliefs. The term social justice suggests
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Clay Thompson article‚ “The Lost Boys: California is Trying Kids as Adults-and Locking Them Up for Life. No One Knows How Many”‚ on the project censored website‚“ In California alone minors as young as 14 are being punished into the adult criminal justice system. As a result children face adult punishments sometimes as severe as life in prison” (Thompson). We have age limits on things because it is quite obvious that youth are not fully capable of making the right decisions. For one‚ the brains of
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29 January If you can’t do the time‚ don’t do the crime. In recent discussion of Juvenile Justice‚ a controversial issue has been whether juveniles should be tried as adults in adult courts for heinous crimes they have committed. On one hand‚ some argue that they should not be tried as adults and do not deserve harsh sentences but as children seeking help. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that those who commit such heinous
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Intro to Criminal Justice Chapter 10–– 1. The Purpose of probation is the suspending and or delaying in a correctional term in jail so that‚ instead of being in jail‚ offenders are allowed almost a second chance and put back into the community for a period in which they must do the following (a) abide by certain conditions given by the court and (b) be supervised by a probation officer. Without probation jails would rapidly become even more overcrowded. Probation officers are the supervisor
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Juvenile Justice To many Americans today‚ the country is a hostage-but not from oversea terrorism as one might expect to think. No today‚ we live in fear from our own children; and these are the same young people who we are entrusting the future of this great country with. According to the Department of Justice report released in November‚ thirty-eight percent of those arrested for weapons offenses in 1995 were under the age of eighteen (Curriden 66). In the same report‚ the Bureau of Justice Statistics
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Pausing‚ the idea comes to mind that the judge has made a mistake. How can a man who has done such a thing receive rehabilitation? Criminal justice rehabilitation is the act of assisting criminals in trying to regain their life and try to learn from their mistakes. Although some may think this sounds like a good idea‚ there are many ways that it is not. Criminal justice rehabilitation should not be enforced because it is extremely costly‚ a lot of people are getting arrested again after being in jail for
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