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Should Minors be Tried as Adults?

approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...

Teen and Adult Parenting Styles

she found out. It brought my mom and I closer but my dad and I, were not close any more at all" ("Melinda"). Because this girl is ...

Media Article Analysis/TV and Aggressiveness

revulsion to blood and gore that the researchers discuss as one of the desensitizing aspect of exposure to violence. Parents watch...

Adult Development/A Case Study

Art Institute. Each school could have one representative and Ritas art was chosen to represent her school. She won. This brief d...

Abstract for Article on Diabetes Screening

criterion for inclusion in the study as all children previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were excluded. Body mass index (B...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Children and The World Wide Web

childs use of the Web. In many ways the Internet might be considered a sociological experiment. While most adults are...

Is the Death Penalty for Juveniles Constitutional?

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

The Influence of Television on American Society

1977, p. 4). For children in particular, there is no activity that permits as much intake "while demanding so little outflow" (Win...

Compairison Three College Programs

This is a report of the classes listed for three different college programs. The student works with developmentally disabled adult...

Adults and the Controversy Surrounding Video Games

This paper argues that both adults and children can be negatively impacted by violent video games. The medial plays a dual role i...

Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency

(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...

Juveniles Tried as Adults: A Problem Statement

the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...

Changes and Challenges: Adolescence, Late Adulthood

should be prohibited from normal adult activities, such as drinking alcoholic beverages, driving motor vehicles, and voting. On ...

Program for Reducing STIs in Mentally Disabled Populations

it is often believed that these individuals will not understand the risks involved and will not follow through with contraceptive ...

Strategies for Addressing Developmental Obstacles

They no longer cry or lash out violently if their needs are not instantly gratified, and they can engage in social situation in a ...

Analysis of Conners' Adult ADHD Rating Scales

93 items that are considered to be associated with ADHD in adults (Knouse and Safren, 2010). The final 66 items, which comprise th...

An Overview, Conners' Adult ADHD Rating Scales (CAARS)

the observer form by utilizing sample groups of 1,026 and 943 individuals, respectively. The qualification level for administering...

Background, History and Current Status of Adult Education

population and the application of a variety of different instructional methods and tools. Because of the challenges specific to a...

ADHD Rating Scales for Adults

of the client that is arguably less distorted by theoretical bias. This paper will explore one such metric in depth, examining its...

Quantitative Study on Diabetes, an Article Analysis

This research paper offers an overview of a study conducted by Nguyen, et al (2010), which describes research examining the possi...

The Elderly and Driving Behavior

A gerontological issue that is relevant in today's society involves driving. This paper examines studies on driving as it respect...

Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents - Assessing the Negative Impacts

and effectively determine the true scope of the impact upon adult children of alcoholic parents, one must recognize that such data...

The Juvenile Justice System and Violent Juvenile Offenders

The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...

Rectifying Overcrowded Prisons and Recidivism

Criminal justice has many problems confronting it in modern society. Three challenges, in particular, exist in todays criminal ju...

Family Theory Individuation

fusion. The study concluded that younger men who had all male siblings had more intimacy to parents and more intimidation by paren...

UTI's Planning Health Program

rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...

Late Adulthood

a home, an animal, or a vehicle. This is part of their identity. Perhaps psychologically, the loss of items that younger relatives...

The Middle Class and Homelessness

number of employed adults, with children, requesting emergency aid is due to the fact that 127.5 million Americans, roughly 43 per...