Outreach Programs and Their Effectiveness in Lowering Crime Outreach programs are amongst one of the solutions that communities turn to when they begin to see elevated crime rates. The real question, however, is: Are these programs effective? I strongly believe that community outreach programs may be our one valid solution to lowering crime rates in a country that is seeing some of the highest crime rates that we have ever seen. I have found two scholarly articles along with two newspaper articles
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NWA Ni**az With Attitudes (NWA) was known as the world's most dangerous group. Five guys made up this well known rap group: Ice Cube, Mc Ren, Eazy E, Yella, and Dr. Dre. In the 1980’s, NWA was the biggest impact on popularizing gangta rap. They impacted and inspired many rappers of today's generation, and built up a type of music that people enjoy today. Activities that happened throughout NWA’s career, like Eazy E’s death, affected the people in America. Eazy E started out NWA with money he made
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Hartzell, G. N., & Nelson, K. (1993). Writing for dollars: Composing recommendation letters for local scholarship committees. School Counselor, 40(4), 312. Hartzell & Nelson, (1993) literature discusses scholarship from a local perspective of the scholarship committee deciding who is the best candidate to receive funding as well as being a vehicle to elevate the future of the student applying or competing for limited dollars. It serves as an opportunity for students to give back to their
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Babe Ruth “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up” – George Herman, the king of swing. Babe Ruth was a baseball legend, he was so amazing at what he did and so great that many people still admire him as one of the best baseball players ever. He had amazing batting averages and had a pretty long baseball career. He is the most paid baseball player ever in baseball. Babe Ruth was born in the Baltimore Maryland area. By the time he was 7 years old he was chewing tobacco, drinking liquor
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Atkinson, T., Liem, R., & Liem, J. H. (1986). The Social Costs of Unemployment: Implication for Social Support. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 27, (Pp 317–331). Beiser, M. (1990). Migration: Opportunity or Mental Health Risk. Triangle, 29,( Pp 83–90). Beiser, M., Johnson, P. J., & Turner, R. J. (1993). Unemployment, Underemployment and Depressive Affect among Southeast Asian Refugees. Psychological Medicine, 23,(Pp 731–743). Canadian Task Force on Mental Health Issues Affecting Immigrants
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Public health officials have linked the increase in heroin use to the increase in opioid pain prescriptions, along with heroin’s cheaper cost and increased availability (CDC, 2017). To prevent heroin addiction from forming, it has been instructed that health professionals revise when and how much opioid pain prescriptions are prescribed to patients (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA], 2016). To prevent the scope of the heroin epidemic in the Northern Shenandoah Valley
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References ACLU. (2016). Police Militarization. Retrieved from https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/police-militarization Chang, C., & Winton, R. (2015). Police Tactics in San Bernadino Rampage Win High Praise from Experts. Retrieved from http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-tactics-20151204-story.html CNN. (2015). Columbine High School Shootings Fast Facts. Retrieved from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/us/columbine-high-school-shootings-fast-facts/ Executive
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Bibliography Allegheny County Jail Cooperatives started in jail but continued after release. Its program takes a different approach than that of the past. It takes a community effort to join jails or prisons and pitch in to help reduce recidivism in their neighborhood. Especially those who have a higher risk of recidivism. Flanagan, Jennifer; Coaston, Darryl. Reducing Recidivism through Combined Community Effort. Policy & Practice. December 2016, Vol. 74. Issue 6, p 5-26. 2p. An incarcerated person’s
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Annotated Bibliography “Acupuncture.” Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic, 21 Feb. 2015. Web. 10 Mar. 2016. . The experts at Mayo Clinic give a basic description of acupuncture, explaining the theory behind it, the symptoms it treats, and the process of acupuncture. They define acupuncture as “the insertion of extremely thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body” (“Acupuncture”). This process relieves pain; it stimulates the blood flow throughout the body and causes pain-reducing chemicals
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Annotated Bibliography Primary Source: Captain James Cook is a British explorer who visited six out of seven continents in 3 voyages. James mapped the lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in great detail and on a scale that has never been seen. While he was on his voyage he surveyed and named the features, and recorded the islands and coastlines on a European map for the first time. He shows a combination of seamship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage
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