certain offenses if probable cause exists that the juvenile committed the offense" (Steinberg‚ 2000). Other states have a presumption waiver in which the juvenile will be transferred to criminal court‚ when it is presumed appropriate. If the juvenile can prove that he or she should be in a juvenile rehabilitation program‚ then they will not get a presumption waiver (Steinberg‚ 2000). The judge will make that final decision‚ but the juvenile must be the one to prove
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Should Juvenile Offenders Be Tried As Adults? A Developmental Perspective on Changing Legal Policies Laurence Steinberg Temple University and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice Paper presented as a part of a Congressional Research Briefing entitled “Juvenile Crime: Causes and Consequences‚” Washington‚ January 19‚ 2000. Address correspondence to the author at the Department of Psychology‚ Temple University‚ Philadelphia
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He states‚ “When creating an account‚ users must sign a waiver that states‚ ‘MySpace.com is not responsible for the conduct‚ whether online or offline‚ of any user of the MySpace Services.’ The 14-year-old signed this agreement‚ and thus signed away her protection under naiveté. This should be enough to get the suit thrown out‚ but it’s big trouble for the Internet if it isn’t”(120). He basically thinks that just because Myspace has a waiver that can be signed by fourteen year old that Myspace should
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Leading Pharmaceutical companies have‚ in recent times‚ been alarmed by the some adverse regulatory rulings in India. First in a landmark decision in March 2012‚ the Indian Patent Office allowed a domestic company (Natco Pharma Ltd.) to sell a generic version of Bayer AG’s cancer drug ‘Nexavar’ on the grounds that the German company’s drug not affordable to the local populace due to cost reasons. Then in March 2013‚ the Honorable Supreme Court of India denied patent protection to Novartis’s blockbuster
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This Study was composed of observational fieldwork at the self-help clinic in the Pomona court house. This clinic helps individuals who are looking to get a dissolution of marriage either from their wife or husband. They also help individuals who are responding to the dissolution of marriage. A dissolution of marriage is when two people who are legally married‚ and one or both wants to have the marriage terminated. The dissolution of marriage is done through a court process‚ and the whole process
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LIT 1 Task 2 1 Situation A Relevant Facts of Situation A: * Employee A has been with Company X for two years. * Employee A’s spouse gave birth prematurely to twins. He requested leave to be with his spouse‚ which was granted. * Employee A has been on leave for 11 weeks‚ and has asked to return to work‚ and to be paid the withheld salary from his 11-week leave. * Manager has agreed to Employee A’s return to the previous job‚ at the previous rate of pay. * The manager
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SCIENCE!! From blowing up cakes for fun to using radiation to cure diseases‚ science delivers us solutions and explanations to our lives. One of the greatest advancements we have made and invested time and money into is the human anatomy. Human anatomy‚ if you did not already know‚ is the science of our human bodies‚ so yes‚ it’s about dissecting dead people and messing around with the insides of alive sleeping people (my definition of a surgeon.) Opening up and chucking people’s liver’s into a jar
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The Belmont Report Following the public outrage over the Syphilis Study at Tuskegee‚ Congress established the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research in 1974. The National Commission was charged with: • Identifying the ethical principles to guide all research involving human subjects • Developing guidelines for the conduct of ethical research involving human subjects The Belmont Report identified three principles essential to the ethical
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“The image of Australia Awards letterhead has been removed to ensure that the information is available to people with various information accessibility needs. The image is included in the PDF version of this publication. These Guidelines will aid you in preparing your application. You should read them in full to ensure that you meet the eligibility requirements for the Award/s. 1 SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 Purpose of these Guidelines 5 1.2 About the Endeavour Awards 5 1.3 Post selection
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Unit 1 | Topics and main ideas Understanding topics SPOTLIGHT ON SPOTLIGHT ON SPOTLIGHT ON SPOTLIGHT ON TESTING SPOTLIGHT ON SPOTLIGHT ON SPOTLIGHT ON SPOTLIGHT ON SPOTLIGHT ON SPOTLIGHT ON A topic tells what a text is about in general. Knowing the topic in a text is the first step in answering reading comprehension questions. 1 Finding a topic AUDIO FILE Listen to or read the conversation. What is the topic? Check (✓) the correct answer. 1. Jenny needs a roommate for
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