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David Howarth’s discussion of discourse theory (in chapter six of Marsh and Stoker’s book) allows us a tool by which we can understand, or at least begin to understand, the ways in which the role of the federal government has shifted since the attacks on the World Trade Center and while such changes have both been protested by some and accepted (if not actually welcomed) by many others. (more…)
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It has already been mentioned that adult facilities are not equipped to give children offenders what they need for rehabilitation. The case of a 16-year-old Seattle boy demonstrates what a juvenile institution can do for a child that is normally not available for adults. The Seattle boy was accused of pinning a girl down in an Auburn Group Home and trying to have sex with her, along with charges that he grabbed two other girls. He has been accused of sexually inappropriate behavior towards numerous classmates and relatives. King County prosecutors agreed to stop their efforts to have the boy locked away as the state’s youngest “sexually violent predator” if he worked his way through an intensive treatment program. The boy’s attorney, Susan Craighead, said that she is still dismayed that prosecutor’s opted to file a sex predator petition against the child. “But I think this is a fair resolution that will give this child very sophisticated counseling, as well as a chance to live in freedom.” Prosecutors have said his sexually aggressive; “out of control” behavior makes him dangerous. (more…)
Article Review
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In the article “Interaction order of public bathrooms,” it can be understood that there are rituals that people are expected to do in public bathrooms. For example, if there is an accidental invasion of somebody’s time in a stall, the other person is supposed to immediately apologize for the event. And, everyone is expected to wash his or her hands after coming out of the stall. If they do not wash their hands, other people give them a look of disgust because they did not follow the ethics of public bathrooms. Therefore, it can be easily assumed that public bathrooms help individuals with the external social order that is beyond them because they have their own internal social ethics within themselves. (more…)
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Teen intervention is another way that teens can cope with pregnancy. Such interventions include an education component, during which peer counselors give the teens information about existing resources. Teen parents are generally very receptive to this information, in part because someone close to their own age presents it. The peer advocates attend childbirth classes, help parents open bank accounts, and help them consider education options. Results from such programs demonstrate that teen intervention works and helps teen parents cope with the pregnancy. Before such programs, the young parents are often withdrawn and very negative about their situations. However, after they begin such teen invention programs, they are very positive about trying to do the best thing both for themselves and their unborn child. In this case, the teen intervention will be good for the fourteen-year-old girl. (more…)
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The results of a recent study of children who graduated from the foster care system, conducted by Westat, Inc., a Rockville, Maryland research corporation, illustrate the extremely harmful and lasting effects of long-term foster care. The study concluded “percent had not completed high school, 38 percent had not held a job for more than one year, 25 percent had been homeless for at least one night and 60 percent of young women had given birth to a child. Forty percent had been on public assistance, incarcerated or a cost to the community in some other way.” (Sells, 2000, 6th Section 1) (more…)