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Personal Philosophy of Nursing

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

Root Causes Of Recent School Shootings

with an ethical foundation. Out from all the bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: ...

Juvenile Justice: Evolution Of Parens Patriae To Due Process

and reformed" (An Overview of Juvenile Justice). Much of the juvenile justice system is comprised of drug-related offenses ...

The “N” World and the Constitutional Right to Free Speech

Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...

Overview of America's Juvenile Court System

serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...

Juvenile Detention Centers and Suicide

In twenty two pages this paper discusses juvenile detention centers in this consideration of incidences of teen suicide. Ten sour...

Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Key Points

2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

AB 2989: Outdoor Environmental Education And Recreation Program

to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...

Corrections Facilities and Programs for Juvenile Drug Abusers in Cedar City, Utah

be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...

Case Study Analyses in Criminal Justice

M. is a serious risk. Because there were few witnesses to the actual event, and there is only scant negative history, it is diffic...

Type 1 Diabetes

was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...

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...

Two Social Work Issues

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

Anomie Theory of Delinquency and Juvenile Delinquency

cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...

Article Critique/Male v. Female Substance Abuse Patterns

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

“Fist Stick Knife Gun”: Addressing Juvenile Delinquency

in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...

Reforming Juvenile Justice

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...

The Need For Consistent And Predictable Care

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

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...

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...

BILL OF RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND SECURITY

in his or her favor (Sixth Amendment, 2012). Finally we have the Fourteenth Amendment. Though not part of the original Bill of Rig...

JUVENILE JUSTICE PROCESS

further into the system (Juvenile Justice System, 2012). Sometimes, juveniles can enter the system through a child welfare agency ...

Overview of the Juvenile Justice System

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

2 Theories on Juvenile Delinquency

While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...

Gender, Family/Juvenile Delinquency

one time, a concept referred to as the "masculinity hypothesis" proposed that female delinquency was rare and consisted primarily ...

Correctional Programs/Juveniles

decade research has repeatedly shown that placing juveniles in community-based programs, rather than incarcerating them in institu...

Probation and the Role of Officers

process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...

Rehabilitation in Juvenile Justice

century, juveniles were treated precisely in the same manner as adult offenders within the American criminal justice system; howev...

California Foster Care Agencies and the Criminal Justice System

for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...