Even though Juvenile Hall does not deter future crime, supplementing punishment with mediation programs may enhance the Justice System's current efforts to combat juvenile delinquent behavior. ... However, there are also high hopes that incorporation of the correct mediation programs, with the punitive approach, will work towards preventing crime in the future through the out the United States. ... These reports display that the punishment approach to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents need change once again. ... Secondly, the Little Hoover COmmission has aspirations that by incorpo...

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There are several types of waivers including prosecutorial, judicial or discretionary, demand, presumptive, and once an adult, always and adult. ... And lastly, the once an adult, always an adult provision that once a juvenile has been transferred to criminal court to be prosecuted as an adult, regardless of the criminal court outcome, the juvenile can never be subject to the jurisdiction of juvenile courts in the future. In other words, once a juvenile is transferred to adult court they will always be classified as an adult even if the juvenile is not of legal age. ... In the end, let'...

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One of the lines in the third stanza is "If I stole your births and your names, / Your straight baby tears and your games, /Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches, and/ Your deaths," This line is a crucial line because it does show that little regret that she did have towards that fetus she once had. The first part of that is about stealing births and names, you only have those once and the mother stole them. ... The next line is basically talking about the future the baby could have had but the mother took it away. She realizes this and grasps that the baby she ha...

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About 9 percent of all students are victimized at least once during a six-month period. ... Because the future of the nation lies in the hands of the children, they should be able to receive an education without fear and unnecessary burden. ...

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Is this what the future holds for our children? ... Out of the corner of my eye I saw Antione Jackson a local gang member who had been shot by a .22 caliber rifle from a black car passing by, once in the shoulder and once in the leg by the front of the bus. ... There was a fight at least once a week usually more, fights were kind of overlooked as long as no one was hurt bad. ...

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Proponents of this practice claim that the death penalty prevents future murders. ... Those who believe that capital punishment is a deterrent to future murders are ignoring the burden of proof. ... Once an inmate is executed, nothing can be done to make amends if a mistake has been made. ...

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A man quietly stands in front of a judge while an audience of millions of people throughout the country watches and waits to see what his future will look like. ... Furthermore, another issue is how death penalty supporters have `backed their position stating how it stops criminals from committing future crimes. ... After all, once a life is taken, there is no going back. ...

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Drugs also hurt future generations because drug abuse, particularly of marijuana, is usually a problem among our future teens. ... If fighting drug abuse were made a top priority, we could probably wage an effective war, through education and enforcement of laws, to stop drug abuse once and for all. ...

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He adds that penologists have studied murder and say it is "almost always a once-in-a-lifetime act.... Rideau states that prisons insufficiently deters criminals and actually induces prisoners to cause more crime in the future, rather than preventing them, which is in fact true. ... If rehabilitation were enacted into the prison system, criminals could see the other side of the equation: the changes they can make to better themselves for the future, the knowledge to succeed in life, approaches on how to deal with their problems and to switch from old to new, better ways. ... Rideau's...

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The death penalty should be enforced because it will lessen the economic burden on our economy, prevent future crimes, and make criminals suffer the ultimate price for the crimes they have committed. ... Therefore, it is very possible that once released back into society, the criminal will change back to their old ways and commit another crime. ... Once this happens the country will immediately see the results of how using capitol punishment will be for the good of our nation. ...

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Especially for their children, they can feel be discriminated by other people, be helpless facing the problems, be desperate for the future life because their fathers or mothers are executed the capital punishment. ... Once capital punishment is executed, life can not be retrievable. ...

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Seeing how cruel the justice system can be to people who have not once harmed another human being, force me to be advocate to those who were wronged. ... I have seen first hand how one arrest can ruin someone entire future. ...

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I think that parents play a huge role in the future of their children's lives. ... If a child is raised in an abusive environment there is a large chance that they will continue the violence with their own families in the future. ... Once a child gets out of a facility like that they will never have a chance of becoming "normal." Once the rehabilitative option is tried and failed then it is time to try the juveniles as adults and let them learn from their mistakes the hard way....

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Although, the court did do its job once it learned that evidence had been mishandled and the eyewitnesses were not reliable. Once this was found out the court decided to over turn Cousin's death sentence and did not attempt to pursue the case any further. ... It will also probably be changed more than once in the future. ...

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In other words, educating teachers on how to practice restorative justice in the classrooms could prevent future crimes and establish new values and beliefs in our children. ... Our children will not only be learning theories and definitions if restorative justice is enforced, they will also learn life values and practices that can improve our civil society in the future.  ... It is important to set up a program that will provide the right training and guidance to the teachers of our schools, this program will consist of multiple seminars in which our teachers become students once again. ......

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According to the FBI, gangs are going to be threat in the future. ... They were once just a local gang in Los Angeles, California but quickly turned into one of the biggest well-known crime groups in the world. ... According to Reach Out, when there is no hope for the future, a person tends to feel that it is easier to go on a destructive path without any care or worry of who gets caught up along the way. ... At the rate of how gangs are spreading throughout the world, would there be any hope that this issue would be resolve in the future based on the number of discrepancies presents already?...

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If these nearly impossible steps can be taken on, the United States will be able to bring back its most important resource for the future, its youth. ... The current trends for juvenile crime in the United States are staggering, but look promising for the future. ... Experts, on the other hand, are worried that the growth of youth population will make this number increase once again (U.S. ... A sentence to a boot camp could change a juvenile's attitude toward himself or society, which could prevent the occurrence of future offenses (Barr 2). ...

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Capital Punishment can't be reversed once it's done. ... It needs to be faced, as a method employed to dissuade future criminals, capital punishment has been a total failure. ... Therefore, if capital punishment's purpose is to deter future criminals, it's bound to fail just as it has in the past. ...

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Laurence Steinberg, "youth thinking mirrors that of their parents by age 16, but teens are still less likely to base decisions on future consequences. ... For example a 16 year old boy is at the peak of their adolescent life, learning and discovering about his self, puberty, maturity, right and wrong and future life goals. But a man that is 25 has matured, lived long enough to have made both good and bad judgments and has already been in the process of achieving those life goals they once thought of as a teenager. ...

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Once adjudicated, the juvenile can be released based on acquittal, sentenced to a community sanction, or committed by the judge to the state-level department of corrections. ... The purpose of this system is to change the behavior of juveniles so that they do not commit future delinquent acts. ...

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They are put to sleep, forgetting all of the wrongs which they have committed, and being transported to the other side, where their future is unknown. ... Once they have decided to commit a crime, they will become blind to the consequences. ...

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About eighty-four of the two hundred and thirty-three offenders whose files were examined had been convicted at least once for a violent crime, according to The Bee's Survey, They were Responsible for "seventeen homicides, seven attempted slayings and eighty-one sexual assaults and child molestations" (Bee). ... We"re saving a lot of risk for the future, and we"re making them pay for their past. ...

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The Elderly Offender When people hear the word inmate, they usually think of a young minority male. In the past minorities between the ages of 18 and 27 made up half of the inmate population in America. America's prison population has traditionally been young and poor, but in recent years it h...

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Supporters argue that death penalty is beneficial for the society because it served as a deterrent for future criminals who are thinking of committing murders or other heinous crimes. ... Death penalty is an irreversible process that once it has imposed; it can no longer be taken back. ...

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He doesn't care about family, about friends, and his future, merely obtaining that money and doing everything in his power to do so. ... Once the night arrived, Dick assured himself and his partner that they were ready, and so the "robbery" went underway. ...

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