Risk factors occur in the environment that the person is subjected to and can alter the ability to adapt to that environment. ... These situations create a continuously stressful environment where many find themselves resorting to illegal acts to survive. ... For example, San Francisco is faced with a large budget deficit and has decided to cut thirty seven billion from the Health Department's budget. ... First, we need to create a preemptive support program where we encourage young adults to seek education, job training, medical health and psychological support. ... Programs need to ...

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In September of 1994, fellow gang members in Chicago executed Robert Sandifer, Jr. At the time, police were looking for Sandifer in connection with the shooting death of a fourteen-year-old girl. At the time of his death, Robert Sandifer was eleven years old. (Sadler 16) These stories fuel the publ...

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Reasoning for this is because the school needs to try it's hardest to ensure a safe learning environment for its students and teachers. ... Locking all these youth in the jails in a negative environment for long periods of time promotes criminal activity upon release. The new Youth Criminal Justice Act ensures many steps are taken, to make a positive environment for rehabilitation. ... These programs introduced by the government has a commitment to improve health, safety, and well-being of Canada's children and youth so that they have the greatest opportunity to thrive and develop ...

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Issues in education, health care, youth, economic development, environmental justice, and technology were researched and compared in the following review of literature. ... A poll conducted on a national level suggests that students worry about education, family issues, violence, the environment, sexual concerns, war and drug abuse. In the same study, the top five concerns of rural students included education, family issues, war, violence and the environment (Barrons et al, 1997). ... "These findings contrast with the popularly held notion that rural youth are more protected against the use an...

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Richard Hickock and Perry Smith both suffered from mental illness caused by their pasts; although they were guilty of the crime, putting them to death was unjust because of their mental health and because they were deprived of the right to live. ... Perry's life of crime began due to the environment he was raised in. Perry not only grew up in a toxic environment, but he also may have been born with a certain temperament that caused him to act the way he did. In the article "How We Become What We Are," Winifred Gallagher discusses how temperament and the environment one comes ...

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In order to thoroughly understand the causes, I have to find out what's affecting them negatively in their environment and surroundings, their neighborhood. ... Public drunkenness, street harassment, drug involvement and fear of victimization are associated with poor emotional health. ...

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""part of the brain that is helping organization, planning and strategizing is no done being built yet .It's sort of unfair to expect them to have adult levels of organizational skills or decision making before the brain is finished being built,"" explains Jay Giedd, the lead researcher on the subject at the National Institute of Mental Health (Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Juvenile Death Penalty 2). ... Not only can they many times not control their environment, they can also not control the fact that they do not have the same maturity as that of an adult. ...

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If a tobacco product will affect a person's health, then perhaps a game product will affect a person's mentality. However, unlike tobacco, which immediately affects every person's health, does every user of these games commit violent crimes? ... Games may depict atrocious acts of violence, but do this does not simulate in any way how to perform the same acts in a real environment. ...

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Not only do they receive practically fee meals, but they also receive health care that is paid for using citizens' taxes (Pros and Cons). What is most aggravating to those who want to continue the death penalty is that these criminals who may have murdered innocent people are just sitting around getting free food and health care without having to work for it, which is more than a lot of homeless or low class citizens ever receive (Sentencing for Life). For prisoners who come from dangerous neighborhoods, being in prison gives them a safer, more controlled environment to live in, which aga...

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While working for the Bush administration's secretary of health and human services he was appalled by the epidemic of violent crimes he saw taking place in American cities. ... In contrast to these theories that suggest that the criminal is born to be this way, sociological approaches are more concerned with how social factors such as our environment and socialisation can cause crime. ...

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I conducted intensive research in my career path which included, acquiring professional knowledge about the origin of the word "Police", the job outlook, education, experience required, job description, similar occupation, work environment and its future operation and functions. ... Their duties were providing safety and welfare to people living in municipalities and promoted the responsibilities of city government in many areas of public life which included: crime control, management of unruly crowd and behavior, the fighting of fires, and the maintenance of health and sanitation. ...

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The reasoning behind their knowledge is obviously because of the environment and influences that they have been around for an extended amount of time. ... They are provided with free food, health care, and somewhere to sleep that isn't under a bridge, and that's not all. ...

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"Dr Joseph Goldberger, a public health official, sought to unravel the mystery of pellagra, a deadly and at times disfiguring disease that was particularly virulent in the southern United States"(Hornblum) He recruited dozens of Mississippi prison inmates to try and prove his theory that pellagra and deadly disease is caused by dietary deficiency. ... One strongly supports the right to create a safe and loving environment for all citizens within the United States. ...

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But for a civilized society to kill a child for his or her action's is inexcusable, because a child's welfare and mental health is the responsibility of the community in which he or she is raised. A child raised in a nurturing environment will display less aggressive and hostile behavior and may not suffer long-term emotional problems (Coon 77,78). ...

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