Current research into this difficult and pressing issue reflects a vast range of theories about, and predictors of delinquency as well as a multitude of strategies to control and reduce overall delinquency. ... Parents, who ignore inappropriate behavior, are negligent about consistently punishing all misbehaviors with pre-established punishments or who threaten punishment but don't follow through with it will raise children who are more likely to engage in delinquent behavior (Glueck & Glueck, 1950; Laub & Sampson, 1998; Wells and Rankin, 1988). ...

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All the gun control laws are not about preventing crime. ... How many times have you read about someone walking into a public place and opening fire? ... FBI data for 1990 show that criminals used firearms in about 258,000 violent offenses or about 16 percent of the 1.6 million crimes reported to the police. ... In conclusion, it is estimated that firearms are used in about 12 percent of violent crimes. ... The battle over gun control Is not about controlling inanimate objects; it is about controlling people. ...

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Differences in state acceptance is addressed while the majority of the existing fifty states authorize the death penalty about half of the states allow the execution of minors. ... The probit regression analysis was conducted to draw conclusions about the sources of support for rehabilitation versus the death penalty. ...

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I started out at the age of nine learning about a new world, work. I was a stock boy in my father's store, in a busy part of the city. where it was a common place for police officers to grab a snack or just do a routine check. ... What could a boy do without his high school? ... After a year and a half I returned home with nothing to show but an old truck and about a thousand dollars in my pocket. ...

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Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. This type of regulation, requiring a mandatory consequence for a predetermined act, is known in the educational realm as a zero tolerance policy. Since 1994, schools throughou...

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Capital Punishment: Is it right or wrong? The death penalty has not remained constant throughout American History . It has undergone numerous changes and reforms in the past two centuries, falling in and out of public favor. The death penalty has been in our legal system since our legal ...

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The jurors didn't care about the boy's age and his family - most of them only wanted him to be sent to the electric chair because he was a foreigner who also lives in one of the worst parts of town. ... African Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population, but they comprise about half of all prison inmates and 40% of those sentenced to death. ...

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