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Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Juvenile Offenders and Adult Prosecution

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

Erik Erikson's Theories and What It Means to Be an Adult

human beings into jeopardy. Thus, adults have a responsibility to use their ability for higher reasoning and abstract thought to p...

Arguing in Favor of Adult Sentences for Certain Juvenile Offenders

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

Differences Between Adults and Children in the Grieving Process

is a natural reaction to the stress of the situation. Adults will also suffer set backs in their bereavement processes, as well. ...

Alternative Adult Education Models

adult education within the confines of a college, university or junior/community college. Adult students attend such institutions ...

Adult Literacy and the New York City Public Library

potential" (National Assessments of Adult Literacy n.d.). An individuals literacy level cannot be defined by a single skill, such...

Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

Adult Learners, Motivation, and Curriculum Development

David Kolb (1984) developed what has been deemed a linear processing approach to learning. Kolb (1984) asserted that experiential...

Developmental Psychology and a Premier Virtual Computer Generated Symposium

labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...

An Overview of Adult Education

result, this first assessment tool must reflect elements that relate to these three areas. For this first assessment, then, a pro...

Adult Literacy Articles

reliability in terms of design, the researcher stated their process, intent and the direction of their questions in order to suppo...

Adult Education Programs

Testing Service for the National Center for Education Statistics, suggested that it may be impossible for the United States to ach...

Higher Education Trends

or is hired for a position. Employers see the degree as a sort of prerequisite. Even if the degree has nothing to do with the posi...

Adult Entertainment Television Station and Advice from Legal Counsel

be censored and deleted as it could be argued in court that such depictions had a significant influence that prompted the commissi...

Modern Society and Heart Disease

advertising by big businesses that has contributed in a large part to the decline in the health of the average American citizen. ...

Phonics That is Synthetic and Analytic

quotes a previous Director, John Stannard, as saying that the essential elements of teaching literacy involve the identification a...

Child Abuse Qualitative Study Proposal

study from the proposed study, there is no difference as the study stands. Your hypothesis is identical. However, you can differe...

Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones and Developmental Identity

the eyes of a child. Something too old lurked in their centers. . . . She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and...

Adult Learner Curriculum Design

a theorist who suggests that adult learners call on different experiences they might have had in the learning process (Merriam & C...

Acme Foods' Alteration of the Process of Product Design

of Acmes product. Lunchables(r) have been available for years, and many Lunchables(r) customers will pick up several of the kits ...

Strategy For Marketing The University of Phoenix Online

film directors who also could not cut it in the real world, teach what they have learned. In some way it is better to have qualifi...

A Case Story Involving Adult Child Abuse

missing the fundamental basics of human life; as such, a legal shift in focus took place in order to provide them with more emphas...

Schizophrenia in Adults

factors still were largely obscure. "One suggestion is that brain damage occurring at or around the time of birth in some way con...

A 2003 Steptoe et al Article 'Behavioral Counseling to Increase Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables in Low Income Adults' Revieweed

that "brief individual counseling in primary care can elicit sustained increases in consumption of fruit and vegetables in low inc...

Dr. Murray Bowen's Family Systems Therapy Theory and Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides

to as nuclear family emotional systems. According to this concept, the family acts as a "unitary whole," which is affected by two...

Criminal Justice System and the Treatment of Children as Children and Not Adults

children as young as ten will fall under the juvenile court jurisdiction (1997) It is true that some children seem to deserve th...

Connection Between Social Participation, Concept of Self, and Young People

unprotected sex, drugs, theft, driving too fast, and thrill seeking. According to Lynn Ponton, author of The Romance of Risk: Why ...

The Problems of Adult Adoptees

the course of their entire lives (Issues Facing Adult Adoptees, 2003). One of the main issues which many adult adoptees have to d...