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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...

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 ...

Prison and Juveniles

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

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...

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...

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 ...

Theories of Leadership and Nursing

"organization does not need transforming" (Transformational leadership, 2007). Transactional leadership is much in keeping with ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Trying to Go Home Again

should have been the hallway connecting the gym to the rest of the school, I found myself outside! Part of the building had been t...

Juvenile Offenders Should Not Always Be Tried As Adults

#2 Children who commit serious crimes can be rehabilitated. Amnesty International points out how the United States is "the only W...

Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

cause of a childs disease or malady or because they use the accusation of MSBP as a ploy to avoid malpractice suits (Johns, 2007)....

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...

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...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...

Two Lesson Plans for Adult ESL Learners

to memorize these words or phrases. * Working in dyads, students will practice one of two dialogues, either speaking with the nurs...

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...

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 ...

US System of Juvenile Justice and its Problems

is unusual. All too often children are led through a troubled system that simply does not know how to treat young offenders. I...

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...

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...

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...

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...