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    PHILIPPINES PROVINCIAL ROADS MANAGEMENT FACILITY Misamis Occidental Managed by: ACTIVITY COMPLETION REPORT TRAINING COACHING IN MATERIAL TESTING August 7-8‚ 2012 Villa Amor August 9-10‚ 2012 DPWH MATERIAL TESTING LABORATORY Oroquieta City Misamis Occidental ------------------------------------------------- Philippines Provincial Roads Management Facility (PRMF) -------------------------------------------------

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    Processing Juveniles “Contact with a police officer often is a young person’s introduction to the juvenile justice system.” (Bolden-Barrett‚ n.d.) Whenever this occurs‚ there are potentially two outcomes‚ the police officer either sends a summons to a juvenile justice system pertaining to the offense/s of the juvenile or they choose to throw out the case. “Law enforcement’s role with youthful offenders‚ boys and girls under 18‚ is particularly challenging because federal law protects young people

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    Juveniles should not be tried the same way as adults are for the crimes they commit to a certain degree. For many kids being a juvenile delinquent isn’t even entirely their fault. Juveniles also just aren’t at the right mindset to be going to prisons at young ages. There are other courses of action that can be taken to help the troubled child out other then locking them up like adults. A juvenile is a child under the age of 18 but in some states the maximum age is 16 (find law)‚ a juvenile delinquent

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    Definiton essay: Juvenile delinquent Definition Essay: Juvenile Delinquent English Composition 1 Kelley Jones September 5th 2010 Abstract This paper is a definition essay that defines the term juvenile delinquent. Juvenile delinquent is a person under the legal age that breaks the law. This essay will give the reader in depth information about the term juvenile delinquent. Juvenile Delinquent Juvenile delinquency is a term that basically means a person under the age of legality

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    Community Centers are centers where Juvenile Delinquents go to for rehab and recollect themselves. Community-Based Centers are the better option over Correctional Facilities because it build the people opportunities to refine‚ grow and change in the future to be a better person and change the world. Juvenile Delinquents today struggle to find the truth and are make bad choices for themselves.when they go to the correctional facilities they do not gain anything from it than just being in a cell and

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    Does only the juvenile drinking or drugging up suffer‚ or do others get involved? The answer is‚ not only do the users suffer‚ but so do their family‚ friends‚ and the community. However‚ due to the rise of juvenile’s becoming involved in substance abuse‚ the juvenile justice system has resulted in an increased burden. Over the past fifteen years‚ the fad of drug use among kids has steadily been increasing. Persistent substance abuse among youth is often accompanied by an array of problems‚ including

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    29th‚ 1964‚ a church in Windrixville caught on fire out of nowhere. It was the afternoon at exactly 3:32 on a calm day until two boys saved these children’s lives. We do not have much information on how this fire started but we do know how juvenile delinquents turned into heroes. Many witnesses say they saw smoke and heard booms. Jerry‚ one of the teachers said two boys went in and came out burnt. Johnny Cade and Ponyboy Curtis were the ones to save the children along with Dally Winston who saved

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    of my closest friends‚ Miranda Eaton. Miranda’s delinquent behavior mainly included underage drinking‚ drug use‚ and shoplifting as well as cheating in school. To explain her behavior‚ I will be using both psychological theories for delinquent behavior as well as social control theory. In Miranda’s case‚ I think that the psychological theories for youth delinquency makes the most sense for a few reasons‚ although I also think that social control theory has a lot of merit. Miranda is currently a nineteen

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    of crimes committed by Juveniles. Although there are many cases where the juvenile did not commit a serious crime‚ there are others where the crime is so bad the juvenile court system tries the juvenile as an adult. Instead of seeking help for the individual‚ our justice system places them in adult facilities to “teach them a lesson.” The justice system fails to see what the causes the child to do these things is because of abuse‚ neglect‚ or where they grew up. The juvenile justice system needs to

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    argument that states that juvenile delinquents should be treated as teenagers and not as an adult. Many will argue that everyone should be treated the same but evidence shows that courts have always treated crimes by a case to case study. Introduction In the law‚ a juvenile is defined as a person who is not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts. In most states the normal age is 18. In Wyoming a juvenile is a person under the age of 19. In some states a juvenile is a person under the

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