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    Chris Hill 10/15/2016 CJI 202 Juvenile Killers Unleashed Growing up as a kid‚ life can either be optimistic or rough and stressful‚ all depending on how they are raised. The childhood of Eric Smith‚ Lionel Tate‚ and Mary Bell were all full of dark and twisted memories. At the early years of their teenage lives‚ the three kids decided to make one of the worst decisions anyone can make; taking the lives of another innocent person. But why? Growing up Smith‚ Tate‚ and Bell all had one thing in common

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    Guddifachaa practice as child... 1 Running Head: GUDDIFACHAA PRACTICE AS CHILD PROBLEM INTERVENTION GUDDIFACHAA PRACTICE AS CHILD PROBLEM INTERVENTION IN OROMO SOCIETY: THE CASE OF ADA’A LIBAN DISTRICT Dessalegn Negeri Addis Ababa University Graduate school of social work A Thesis Submitted to the Research and Graduate Programs of Addis Ababa University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Social Work (MSW) Advisor: Professor James Rollin June

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    Becoming an Adult Nurse will allow me to attain my ambition and work with adults of all ages with a wide variety of health conditions‚ and I will be able to improve the quality of their life. In addition working as an adult nurse means lots of exciting challenges and I will be able to keep a cool head and use my initiative. Moreover‚ one of the reasons that led me to become an Adult Nurse is that it will provide me an opportunity to discover the ideas of health and ill health within the adult population

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    assaulted at twelve‚ he was sentenced to juvenile detention for one week for a vandalism crime. On his first day there‚ he was raped by an older cellmate (Kasier). Juvenile detention conceptually‚ could work; however‚ over the past decade the recidivism rates have increased. Due to the presence of systematic abuse and higher rates of committing crimes‚ statistics and studies have proven it’s more effective for juveniles

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    obviously and painfully not meant for them‚ shackles that are more fitting for an adult. Envision if the last time you saw your young family member‚ you saw them getting escorted into a major metal confine and as you look‚ the entryway pummels right in their little faces. It would be terrible seeing that. Children less than 16 years old ought not to go to prison‚ regardless of the fact that they do perpetrate

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    drugs were the main problem of the criminal justice system. Courts on state and federal levels were burdened and overloaded with drug cases. As a result‚ prison populations began to rise at an amazing rate. According to statistics‚ "the number of adults arrested for drug-related violations increased 27.3% between 1980 and 1995‚ in the same period‚ the percentage of prisoners in the custody of state correctional authorities for drug offenses increased from 6.4% to 22.7%". With this rate of increase

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    committed by 16 and 17 year olds in the adult court system no matter how minor the crime may be (Raise the Age NC). This can be devastating to our juveniles and their futures. Studies have shown that the average human brain does not mature to its complete development until the age of 25 (Miller and Bartollas). Today’s juveniles sometimes make stupid choices and deserve a second chance. We as a state should be like 48 other states and keep these juveniles in the juvenile court system and offer diversion

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    Should Smoking be Banned? smoking is a well known habit ‚ Somtimes people have no choice to smoke it is just addictive. 23 percent of adults in australia smoke . with the positive side of smoking. First‚ smoking undoubtedly helps many people to relax. For some‚ it even improves concentration. Many people like to smoke before exams or when they are relaxing with friends. A further point is that governments throughout the world make huge profits from owned or collected taxes on cigarettes

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    TYC has a long history of mistreating and abusing the youth that they house in their facilities. The employees and providers who run the care of these juvenile prisons not only neglect the needs of the youth imprisoned there‚ but also take advantage of the fact that these kids have nowhere else to run too. There have been multiple cases involving TYC employees and TYC inmates that were never brought to light‚ because of lack of supervision given to the facilities by the Texas government. TYC supervisor

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    initiation of the next” (Encyclopedia.com). By placing youth in adult facilities the court is demonstrating their belief that youth have the mental capacity and cognitive ability to understand the consequences of their actions‚ despite the fact that much research has concluded the opposite is true. James M. Sullivan (2014) author of From Monkey Bars to Behind Bars: Problems Associated with placing youth’s in Adult Prisons states‚ “Juveniles’ psychosocial immaturity ‚ including their tendency to focus

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