The Vera Institute of Justice deals with many issues in the world such as policing, corrections, sentencing, and much more. The one that I found most interesting was the Institutions for Youth. Vera is a non-profit organization that sponsors criminal justice programs. It is trying to propose new ways to help today's youth. For example, instead of always focusing on what they do wrong, we should support the students into wanting to make better choices for themselves.
The Adolescent Portable Therapy (APT) is a new treatment program for young offenders with drug habits. APT works with kids inside New York City detention centers and upstate institutions, and then continues treating them in their home communities. This is a way that they can keep close ties with the community instead of being thrown out into another family and community.
When foster children get arrested, who shows up for them? Well, it is the job of the child's welfare system to help them but police usually do not know that the child is in foster care and therefore, do not know who to call. This leads to overcrowding and costly money spent on juvenile jails. Even if police do call the foster parents, parents are sometimes reluctant in knowing their personal responsibilities and do not go to the court. A way to help this problem has been established by Vera. It is called Project Confirm. When kids are arrested, the project's staff checks the child's records and notifies the appropriate agencies. Not only do they notify them, they make sure that they are aware that they should be standing up for these children at court. Project Confirm has many benefits. The welfare system does not always have to find the child new homes, but most importantly, the children do not get lost in the juvenile justice system just because they are in foster care.
"Statistics have shown that last year more than half of all youngsters sent to confinement committed misdemeanors and nearly half of them committed nonviolent offenses.
Background Problem Arguments that support the problem Proposed solutions to the problem Capital punishment is one of the most widely debated issues in America. Thousands of people die at the hands of the government of the United States every year. This is a problem. The government was formed to protect its citizens. It is a social contract. ...
In the 1970's, not all, but most state and federal courts adopted a new legal definition proposed by the American Law Institute (ALI) stating, "A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct, as a result of mental disease or defect, he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law." ... Bigger's mother always takes Vera's side in a situation with Bigger. ...
Later they had a son, Wirchik, who died very suddenly as a child and had one daughter, Vera. His three sons named Vladimir, Victor, and Vsevolod, one of whom was a will-known physicist at and professor of physics at Leningrad in 1925.In 1890, Pavlov was invited to organize and direct the Department of Fuselage at the Instituted of Experimental Medicine. ...