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Author: Eva Fry Publisher: Author House ISBN: 146706419X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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WHY DO KIDS TURN BAD? What makes a child a killer?In 2002 there were over two million juvenile arrests and over100,000 kids, under the age of 18, locked up in America.Some things are steadily getting worse. Boys'' drug abuse violations rose 135% and curfew and loitering rose 70%. For girls, drug abuse violations rose 220%, liquor law violations 37% and curfew and loitering 111%. (Juvenile Justice Statistics) Were these kids born bad?Are their crimes a result of circumstances beyond their control?Are they the product of abuse or neglect?Are their parents responsible? Is society responsible?How do we stop Juvenile Crime?How do we save our kids?Who knows the answer? THE KIDS KNOW! They have the answers!They can tell us why they didwhat they did and who is responsible!If we read their letters carefully,we can see the circumstances,which influenced them tobecome kids who commit crime. Their letters give us insight into their lives andcan be an inspiration to parents who want to know how to help their kids.Their letters can help us as a society. To make the needed changes to save our younger generation, we all need to know what goes on in the minds ofour juveniles. This book is made up of letters from kids who are locked up. It also includes lessons taught to the kids by Eva Fry to help save them and open their eyes to their potential. The letters will shock you and make you sad but they will also touch your heart and give you insight into the minds of how our troubled kids think.If you are a young person, they will show you the true consequences of wrong choices. The tragic results of these young peoples choices should inspire you to make better choices.
Author: Eva Fry Publisher: Author House ISBN: 146706419X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
WHY DO KIDS TURN BAD? What makes a child a killer?In 2002 there were over two million juvenile arrests and over100,000 kids, under the age of 18, locked up in America.Some things are steadily getting worse. Boys'' drug abuse violations rose 135% and curfew and loitering rose 70%. For girls, drug abuse violations rose 220%, liquor law violations 37% and curfew and loitering 111%. (Juvenile Justice Statistics) Were these kids born bad?Are their crimes a result of circumstances beyond their control?Are they the product of abuse or neglect?Are their parents responsible? Is society responsible?How do we stop Juvenile Crime?How do we save our kids?Who knows the answer? THE KIDS KNOW! They have the answers!They can tell us why they didwhat they did and who is responsible!If we read their letters carefully,we can see the circumstances,which influenced them tobecome kids who commit crime. Their letters give us insight into their lives andcan be an inspiration to parents who want to know how to help their kids.Their letters can help us as a society. To make the needed changes to save our younger generation, we all need to know what goes on in the minds ofour juveniles. This book is made up of letters from kids who are locked up. It also includes lessons taught to the kids by Eva Fry to help save them and open their eyes to their potential. The letters will shock you and make you sad but they will also touch your heart and give you insight into the minds of how our troubled kids think.If you are a young person, they will show you the true consequences of wrong choices. The tragic results of these young peoples choices should inspire you to make better choices.
Author: Edward Humes Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476796831 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 400
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Now updated with a new introduction and afterword, this award-winning examination of the nation’s largest juvenile criminal justice system in Los Angeles by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist is “an important book with a message of great urgency, especially to all concerned with the future of America’s children” (Booklist). In an age when violence and crime by young people is again on the rise, No Matter How Loud I Shout offers a rare look inside the juvenile court system that deals with these children and the impact decisions made in the courts had on the rest of their lives. Granted unprecedented access to the Los Angeles Juvenile Court, including the judges, the probation officers, and the children themselves, Edward Humes creates an unforgettable portrait of a chaotic system that is neither saving our children in danger nor protecting us from adolescent violence. Yet he shows us there is also hope in the handful of courageous individuals working tirelessly to triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds. Weaving together a poignant, compelling narrative with razor-sharp investigative reporting, No Matter How Loud I Shout is a convincingly reported, profoundly disturbing discussion of the Los Angeles juvenile court’s failings, providing terrifying evidence of the system’s inability to slow juvenile crime or to make even a reasonable stab at rehabilitating troubled young offenders. Humes draws an alarming portrait of a judicial system in disarray.
Author: Leora Krygier Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810863529 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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Each year, millions of teens are cited for various offenses, ranging from traffic violations to criminal trespassing. Regardless of the offense, the majority of these young people arrive in court for the first time, usually unfamiliar with the judicial process and unprepared to stand before a judge. In this no-holds-barred guide, Leora Krygier, a judge for almost 20 years, provides teens with important information about how to prepare for a court appearance. Krygier addresses the most common types of offenses committed by young people and helps decipher their citations. This instructive guide gives teens and their parents an overview of the juvenile court justice system, then takes the reader through the entire process—from the moment a citation is written, to arraignment, possible trial, and disposition of their case. Drawing on examples, stories, and excerpts from actual letters and essays written by teens, Juvenile Court: A Judge's Guide for Young Adults and Their Parents de-mystifies the judicial process and help teens get back on the right track. The book also offers no-nonsense tips aimed to help teens avoid future citations.
Author: Barry C. Feld Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 147987129X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 408
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Winner, 2020 ACJS Outstanding Book Award, given by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences A major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America’s leading experts The juvenile court lies at the intersection of youth policy and crime policy. Its institutional practices reflect our changing ideas about children and crime control. The Evolution of the Juvenile Court provides a sweeping overview of the American juvenile justice system’s development and change over the past century. Noted law professor and criminologist Barry C. Feld places special emphasis on changes over the last 25 years—the ascendance of get tough crime policies and the more recent Supreme Court recognition that “children are different.” Feld’s comprehensive historical analyses trace juvenile courts’ evolution though four periods—the original Progressive Era, the Due Process Revolution in the 1960s, the Get Tough Era of the 1980s and 1990s, and today’s Kids Are Different era. In each period, changes in the economy, cities, families, race and ethnicity, and politics have shaped juvenile courts’ policies and practices. Changes in juvenile courts’ ends and means—substance and procedure—reflect shifting notions of children’s culpability and competence. The Evolution of the Juvenile Court examines how conservative politicians used coded racial appeals to advocate get tough policies that equated children with adults and more recent Supreme Court decisions that draw on developmental psychology and neuroscience research to bolster its conclusions about youths’ reduced criminal responsibility and diminished competence. Feld draws on lessons from the past to envision a new, developmentally appropriate justice system for children. Ultimately, providing justice for children requires structural changes to reduce social and economic inequality—concentrated poverty in segregated urban areas—that disproportionately expose children of color to juvenile courts’ punitive policies. Historical, prescriptive, and analytical, The Evolution of the Juvenile Court evaluates the author’s past recommendations to abolish juvenile courts in light of this new evidence, and concludes that separate, but reformed, juvenile courts are necessary to protect children who commit crimes and facilitate their successful transition to adulthood.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309278937 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 463
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Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates Publisher: American Bar Association ISBN: 9781590318737 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 216
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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Author: John Aarons Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101138939 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 164
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A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways that public institutions are failing to curtail them. Now a team of experts with decades of collective hands-on experience present a book that cuts through the hype and paranoia to offer real solutions. Drawing on actual case studies, Dispatches from Juvenile Hall shows how conventional ?tough on crime? tactics have only worsened the problem, and presents a new blueprint for change that incorporates punitive action, rehabilitation, and family intervention?a progressive program that will encourage and enlighten all those concerned about the future of our youth.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency Publisher: ISBN: Category : Juvenile delinquency Languages : en Pages : 796
Author: Marie Tillman Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 1455505609 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 141
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A love story and an inspirational tale of recovery and self-discovery, Marie Tillman opens up for the first time about her marriage to ex-NFL star Pat Tillman, and her journey to rebuild her life after his death. In 2003, Pat Tillman, serving in the US Army, hastily wrote a "just in case" letter to his wife, Marie. When he returned on leave before his departure to Afghanistan, he placed the letter on top of their bedroom dresser. For months it sat there, sealed and ever-present, like a black hole through which Marie knew her stable life would be pulled if she ever had reason to open it. Then, in April 2004, Marie's worst nightmare came true. In the days following his death, it was Pat's letter that kept her going and, more than that, it was his words that would help her learn to navigate a world she could no longer share with her husband. In The Letter, Marie's talks for the first time about her journey to remake her life after Pat's death. In it, she recalls meeting and falling in love with Pat when they were kids, his harrowing decision to join the army after 9/11, and the devastating day when she learned he'd been killed. She describes how she withdrew from the public spotlight to grieve, learning along the way the value of solitude, self-awareness and integrity in the healing process. And, finally, Marie recounts her work to rebuild her life, including founding The Pat Tillman Foundation, an organization established to carry forth Pat's legacy of leadership, and her decision to step back into the public eye in order to inspire people to live with meaning and purpose. Filled with the lessons Marie learned and the wisdom she gained since Pat's death, The Letter is both a heartrending love story and an inspiring tale for anyone, young or old, whose life has taken an unexpected hard turn -- and who struggles to get back on the right path.
Author: Mark Salzman Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307429849 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 345
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In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing.
Author: Eva Fry
Author: Eva Fry
Author: Edward Humes
Author: Leora Krygier
Author: Barry C. Feld
Author: National Research Council
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Author: John Aarons
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Author: Marie Tillman
Author: Mark Salzman