therefore causing no harm. However, a substantial number of people drink far more than they should and an increasing percentage of people are at risk of alcohol related harm. Whether these risks are towards ones own health or towards someone else’s physical health, these problems are becoming more and more serious. For young people, the effects of alcohol are different to fully grown and mature adults. Teenagers may not know the risk of the consumption of alcohol and it can be very dangerous
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It is not right for children to go to jail children who commit violent crimes should not be tried as adults.Death penalties can get out of hand and be unnecessary at the moment when children do not understand what they have done, they get into therapy or observed places to make them realize what they did was wrong.Children are too young to live on their own, vote, have a job or buy drinks or cigarettes at a store, but all of a sudden they make one mistake and get to the point where they get punished
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Drug Legalization: Why It Wouldn't Work in the United States). Drug trafficking is a "dead end street" that has entrap a lot of promising young men and women in New jersey. The effects of drug trafficking can be life-changing for the worst for young adults who chose this lifestyle. These were core reasons for why I decided to go with this topic. The purpose of this paper is to show the compounding effects of drug trafficking in New Jersey. Drug Trafficking Drug trafficking or illegal drug trading
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Cover letter The purpose of the essay was to show that there is discrimination in the statutory laws where the boys are the ones who suffer. When there is sex between two teenagers below the age of 16, the girl I protected while the boy is charged. Charging the boy alone while they are both supposed to be protected by the same law is discriminatory. The essay seeks to show this using the case of a 14-year-old boy and three girls. From completing the topic, I learn more about statutory rape
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Being an African American student, the Jena 6 really took a toll on me. A racial crime at a high school, is not something I accustomed to and that was exactly what happened in Jena, Louisiana. At Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana the students stay segregated. The black students hang out around the auditorium and the white students sit under a tree in the courtyard. This was so, until the beginning of a school year last year when and African American student asked the principal of the high school
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through this century, social scientists have been concerned by the idea that crime and violence is too often the domain of juveniles. Even though the number of children who kill is small in the past decade has reached and all time high. According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 2008 the murder arrest rate was 3.8 arrests per 100,000 juveniles ages 10 through 17. This was 17 percent more than the 2004 low of 3.3 and three-quarters less than the 1993 peak of 14.4 percent
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second and third degree burns. Richard Thomas, the 16-year-old boy who lit Sasha’s skirt on fire was arrested the following day. Due to the severity and nature of the crime, Thomas was charged as an adult, denying him of his protections, which included anonymity, which is generally allowed for juveniles. He was charged with two felonies, both with a hate crime clause that would increase the time he would have to serve if he were to be convicted. Thomas, at this point, was facing the possibility of a
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which it treats its children.” - Nelson Mandela. The twin concepts of "juvenile delinquency" and "juvenile justice" have gone through a constant process of evolution and refinement. Ever since the 1920s, when as a sequel to the Indian Jail Committee (1919-20) recommendations, comprehensive Children Acts were first enacted in the Provinces of Madras (1920), Bengal (1922) and Bombay (1924) till the passing of the Juvenile Justice Act, 1986,1 the advances have been dynamic. These changes were partly
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In fact, there were some suggestions of negative impacts of harsh policies, in that “[c]ounties that made fewer drug arrests, and concentrated their enforcement efforts on felony manufacture or sale rather than simple drug-possession offences were significantly more likely to experience declines in violent crime.... Counties that rarely imprisoned low-level drug offences showed the largest reduction in violent and property crime” (pp. 10–11). Minor drug arrests appear to have “no relationship to
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