... problem because juvenile offenders are too immature and incompetent to appreciate the nature of their crimes (Flesch, 2004). To hold them accountable as an adult would be unjust and illogical. Moreover, the juvenile justice system should be looked upon as an initial start to rehabilitate young adolescents rather than ... in their decision-making capacity" as compared to adults. (Lamberti, 2015) To give a juvenile offender the same capital punishment as an adult would be unjust because of this. The dehumanization of sentenced teens also plays a big role in the mental effects of young adu...

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... working or engaging in work related activities. After two years of assistance TANF adults must be involved in one of the two. TANF programs have generally taken steps to help adult welfare recipients and applicants find employment as quickly as possible. The TANF was much stricter than the former welfare policy. It established stronger requirements for those receiving aid unlike the ... of the new welfare system, however, argue against its effectiveness. Thanks to this "reform," this is the first recession since the 1930's where there is almost no safety net ("Mending The Safety Net"). ...

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... metropolitan counties, but 81 percent of the nation's land area is in its 2,304 non-metropolitan counties. For most of this century, net migration from non-metro to metro areas has been a constant demographic trend. During the 1980s, for example, non-metropolitan counties--those without an ... deaths has driven modest growth in America's non-metro population. At the same time, metropolitan areas have been growing rapidly through natural increase, the net in-migration of former rural residents, and international immigration. Between 1920 and 1970, the non-metro population grew by only 8.8...

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... I had been drinking they would not allow it because I was under age." The system does not allow youngsters to find a way to handle alcohol responsibly. In some cities if an adult supervises a party where alcohol is present to prevent drunk driving they can be convicted for allowing other people's children to drink in their home. What sense does this make? When ... all of this, in 1996, 51 percent of high school seniors and 26 percent of eighth graders still admit to drinking within the past 30 days.(http://www.NYRA.ecg.net.com) Drinking rates have remained consistent over the past 40 ye...

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... lives ruined. Girls, on the other hand, get the impression that they can grow up and become breeder mommies whose lives will be subsidized by government sanctioned child support. The net effect is bitter children with a warped sense of values. In addition to marring the children, this also poses the question of how a father would be able to pay child support ... in their upbringing. As Vernellia Randall writes in her "Open Letter on Single Parenting", "I submit that it is not the structure of families that determine their success, but whether the adult(s) in the family have a good educa...

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... I had been drinking they would not allow it because I was under age The system does not allow youngsters to find a way to handle alcohol responsibly. In some cities if an adult supervises a party where alcohol is present to prevent drunk driving they can be convicted for allowing other people's children to drink in their home. What sense does this make? When ... all of this, in 1996, 51 percent of high school seniors and 26 percent of eighth graders still admit to drinking within the past 30 days.(http://www.NYRA.ecg.net.com) Drinking rates have remained consistent over the past 40 year...

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... more "kids" committing horrible crimes. There may be some underlying reasons why these kids of thirteen, fourteen, fifteen year olds are committing "adult crimes" such as armed robbery, rape and murder, but there are no excuses for this behavior. In the eyes of the court, a person is ... ten years (Reilly 616). That is an alarming rate of juvenile homicides during the nineties, and something must be done to combat that. Maybe adult sentencing is the solution? For obvious reasons some people feel that a fourteen year old convicted on two counts of second degree murder should not be ... ...

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... more "kids" committing horrible crimes. There may be some underlying reasons why these kids of thirteen, fourteen, fifteen year olds are committing "adult crimes" such as armed robbery, rape and murder, but there are no excuses for this behavior. In the eyes of the court, a person is ... ten years (Reilly 616). That is an alarming rate of juvenile homicides during the nineties, and something must be done to combat that. Maybe adult sentencing is the solution? For obvious reasons some people feel that a fourteen year old convicted on two counts of second degree murder should not be ... ...

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... have the same opportunities to increase their wealth as much as the upper class does. Especially in the U.S economy, people who have a high net worth can invest big, and win big. On the other hand, those with a small net worth lack the money needed to up their total income. Uwe E. Reinhardt, a political economy professor at Princeton, collected data that shows that the ... ...

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... legal drinking age in America, so many legal adults are not permitted entry. Clearly a discrepancy exists between an 18 year old adult and a 21 year old adult; however, since they are viewed by law as equals shouldn't they have the same privileges? Obviously certain laws that regulate activities by ... three years for an equal level of freedom. A need for drinking regulation definitely exists, yet it needs to coincide with other laws defining adult privileges. All rights would be gained simultaneously and lowering the legal drinking age to 18 would erase the discrepancy that now exists. ...

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... trends along with the levels of all major energy sources (fish, grain, fresh water, and electricity) available to us. According to an article by Mark Elsis at http://www.overpopulation.net/, growth rate of earth's human population is declining by 2.1 million each year. In fact Earth reached its population growth peak back in 1987 when 87.01 million people where added ... to a finish. Another view on the population growth problem comes from religious, anti abortion activists. According to an article written in 1991 title Exposing the Overpopulation Myth (http://www.linda.net/overpop.html...

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... ship arrived in the U.S. in 1808" and "it is statistically likely that your white ancestors immigrated to the U.S. after 1808" (Reparations for slavery? Or discrimination against light-skinned citizens?, Adversity.Net News and Analysis, 2003). Not every non-black American should have to pay reparations for slavery. Before slavery was even abolished, white slave owners totaled fewer than 10% of the ... been paid in ways other than a direct check for a large sum of money. The government and tax payers have already paid trillions of dollars for discrimination in the past. Adversity.Net New...

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... , in the United States, are entitled to these privileges. Now just to so call level the playing field the government also added net worth into the mix. When applying for a government contract you will get preferential treatment if your net worth is under $750,000. When first enacted, in 1964 Article VII, did allow for those who were discriminated against, in the ... ...

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... four offenses, which include murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Based on this index, the juvenile arrests for violent crime between 1988 and 1992 increased by 47%, while adult violent crime arrests increased by 19%, with substantial differences in each of the four offenses (Allen-Hagen, p. 1). This data shows that juveniles are not solely responsible for the increase ... demanding changes in the juvenile justice system. The juvenile justice system is currently being challenged on the belief that juveniles who commit serious violent crimes should be treated differen...

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... expect more from them and help them to meet higher standards. Standardized tests repeatedly show that students are simply not learning proper reading skills. "According to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 42 million adult Americans cannot read, and 50 million can recognize so few printed words they are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level and the numbers are not slowing ... reading skills before he or she steps foot in the classroom". Harman (as sited in Money Not the Solution For Illiteracy). More often than not an illiterate adult was also the child of an illiterate adult. F...

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... to drop to 20% by the year 2010, says the Census Bureau. By this time nearly 30% of home will be lead by a single adult. According to Michelle Conlin this "unprecedented demographic shift holds vast implications for everything from Corporate America to the culture wars; from government institutions to the legal ... working mothers don't"(108). This appears to me to show that our government is rewarding those who are married, because less taxes are taken from a married adult than that from a single, but a married couple is able to claim more of a tax break on there taxes. This may seem un...

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... . Although it would be safer to keep the legal drinking age at 21, there are some positive arguments to lowering the age to 21. In America, 18 is considered a legal adult; you can move out of your parents' house without their say, you can get married, you can vote, you can play the lottery, you can purchase cigarettes, you can even ... sell alcohol, but you cannot buy or drink it. Why is this considered fair? If at the age of 18 a person is a legal adult, why can they not make their own decisions on whether they drink alcohol or not? If at 18, a person could be living on their own, have ...

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... be another one of the main issues with juvenile crime because one in five juveniles said they carried a gun most of the time an! d juvenile arrests are more likely than adult arrestees to have used a gun in committing a crime (Sickmund 27). Juvenile crime was getting out of control in the nineties and something needed to be done about it. The drops ... to keep up with demands. This is a troubling concept for many people to grasp, but the truth is that some juveniles are just a violent, if not more violent, than many adult offenders (Barr 2). These small groups of violent offenders commi...

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... are not interested in modern television if these two elements are not included in their programming. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a report in September 2000 that found that most adult-rated shows, films, music and video games were marketed to children ("Television Content"). The networks know if this is included it means a larger audience; of course this guarantees higher ratings ... feel many emotions such as curiosity, revenge, and rebellion. To a child there is one emotion that overpowers all others, acceptance. Children are born with instinctive capacity and desire to i...

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... 's book The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) included the ideas that regional economic growth policies should focus increasing "quality" (per capita income) rather than "quantity" (net populations gains, job growth) and that "real" economic growth "takes form around real concentrations of people in real places" (Florida, 2005; 22, 4). As Gerber states in ... ...

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... obvious, while some others I would not have thought to be an issue. Overall, the main issue appears to arise from the absence of using birth control and contraceptives. As a young adult, it is quite normal to feel a sense of embarrassment or privacy when talking about one's sex life. It can be hard to talk to your parents or your friends in ... better programs in school. As a social worker, one needs to think about what is best for the individuals being affected. When a social worker or any other influential figure in a young adult's life shows care and concern rather than disappointmen...

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... general views of the poor and were instructed to choose the answers that best represented their opinions. Question one of the survey examines what factors people believe lead to an adult person becoming poor. Answers available for those surveyed included lack of education, poor parents, low I.Q. ,low wage employment and shortage of employment, the individual not working hard enough and "other ... women on average were statically poorer than men in America, did we actually feel sorrier for them? Gender roles in America predominantly see men as more of the "breadwinner"." An adult male wi...

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... if illegal aliens now in the country - estimated at between 8 million and 12 million - received amnesty, paid taxes and used services similar to households headed by legal immigrants, the estimated net deficit would increase from $10 billion to more than $29 billion" (Illegals' 1).  Therefore, the reform of immigration laws should be encouraged and enforced because of the many different problems ... ...

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... and more countries began the investigation of nuclear weapons. Now, the amount of the nuclear weapons probably destroys 6%~10% of the earth (not include the radioactive fallout). (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/...) So there is possibility that some day in the future the earth could be destroyed. Also if those weapons are used in the war, nobody will triumph, because everyone would ... ...

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... stamps, housing assistance are safety nets that has helped lower the high risk of poverty. Without these added benefits, people would be a lot worse than they are now. The safety net programs reduced the child poverty rate from 24% before the benefits were counted down to 16% (Egendorf: 1999, 19). Supplemental Security income, local general assistance, and earned income tax credits ... ...

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