The United States currently has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Over 2.4 million persons are in state or federal prisons and jails—a rate of 751 out of every 100‚000. Over 3‚500 of these are awaiting execution; some for Federal crimes‚ most for capital offenses in one of the 36 states that still allows for capital punishment. Another 5 million are under some sort of correctional supervision such as probation or parole (PEW 2008). Even more alarming is a phenomenon known as the Pipeline
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school systems disciplinary policies and the effect they have on students. While most school systems in the nation have adapted the zero tolerance policies‚ there is major concerns that specific students could be targeted‚ and introduced in the criminal justice system based on these disciplinary policies. This research paper is intended to focus on the reform of zero tolerance policies‚ and minimizing the school to prison pipeline. School to Prison Pipeline The school to prison pipeline‚ is a term
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Bullying Must Stop In the past many have focused on the abuse of drug and alcohol use in school aged students along with students carrying weapons to schools‚ it seemed as if no one was recognizing the significance of school bullying. For victims of bullying‚ they go to school every day facing harassment‚ taunting‚ and humiliation. Studies show that 25-35% of teens encountered some type of bullying in their lifetime (Nansel et al‚ 2001). Bullying is a form of violent behavior that happens not
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Community policing Community policing is defined as a " philosophy that promotes organizational strategies‚ which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques‚ to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime‚ social disorder‚ and fear of crime" according to the U.S. Department of Justice. (U. S. Department of Justice). In other words the main goal of community policing is the allocation of various police agencies/staff
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Equal Employment Opportunity and Employee Rights Review Paper Klista Odgers HRM/300 University of Phoenix Online
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protect students and maintain a safe and positive environment at school. Although many teachers and administrators have found zero tolerance policies to be effective because the policy sends a clear and consistent message that particular behaviors will not be allowed at school‚ research indicates that there are also many negative results of the implantation of the zero tolerance policy such as increased student drop out. The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) suggests that other discipline
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pressure ulcers if not caught and treated. When looking at the musculoskeletal system‚ ROM is particularly important because it could indicate how easy it is for the client to perform activities of daily living. Another tool a nurse could use is the Katz Index of Independence. It lists six areas such as bathing‚ toileting‚ and feeding and the client is scored “Yes” or “No” for independence for each item. A score of six indicates the client is fully functional and a score of two or less shows functional
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have metal detectors‚ law enforcement officers in the buildings and intense zero-tolerance policies that treat minor and major infractions with extreme severity. Authorities and educators have relied heavily on suspensions‚ expulsions‚ and outside law enforcement to solve the behavior and disciplinary issues in the classroom. Coates (2016) states that the United States now accounts for less than 5 percent
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Gibson‚ and Randy Katz at the University of California‚ Berkeley in 1987‚ standing for redundant array of inexpensive disks.[2] Industry RAID manufacturers later tended to interpret the acronym as standing for redundant array of independent disks.[3][4][5][6] RAID is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple physical History The term RAID was first defined by David A. Patterson‚ Garth A. Gibson and Randy Katz at the University
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rates also shows that the introduction of the zero tolerance policy has little or any impact on violence rates (American Psychological Association‚ 2008). The zero tolerance policy also aims to establish clear expectations of students‚ however Peak‚ 2016) notes that there is no one definition of zero tolerance‚ each school tailors this policy to suit the needs of the school. So for example‚ if a child was moved schools‚ it is likely their zero tolerance policy would differ and therefore there is a
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