As I stated earlier, Illinois spends $2,200 a year to educate a student, but that is way below what it should be so let’s use the recommended value $6,416. The average cost to house a juvenile for one year in Illinois is from $52,540 to $96,087 per person. That money could be used to properly fund 15 students or inadequately fund nearly 44 children. Although the juvenile detention centers provide the inmates with food, shelter, and limited clothing the cost to house a juvenile is extremely high, even compared to an Illinois University. The disgraceful thing about this situation is that coordinators of these institutions aren’t even educating these children, so that when they are done serving their time they can do something productive.
Teenagers had more babies than they do now, but access to good jobs-even with only a high school education-enabled young men to marry their pregnant girlfriends. Even though the 50's were good, it didn't lead to better 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. The 1950s family was more of a short-lived experiment than a continuation of a long tradition. For all of its good points, family life in the 1950s was hardly ideal. Families weren't as well-off economically as they would become by the end of the 1960s.
In England and Wales, the age of criminal responsibility is tenÐmuch lower than that in most European countries where a welfare-based system is in place to deal with young offenders. The abolition of doli incapax as part of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act has further increased the tendency to treat children as though they are adults. Though a ten-year-old may understand the difference between right and wrong, he does not necessarily fully appreciate the implications of what he has done. Capacity and competence relate to age, maturity and understanding and should be considered in any trial where a child is the defendant. Trial in adult court.
The persistence probability of students with awards of $3,000 and $4,000 is predicted at 0.67 and 0.76, respectively. Clearly, for students in this income bracket, means-tested grants are critical to their ability to persist in college.” (p. 819). * Brown discusses, “Financial aid is critical for all students, but more so for the Latino community, given the percentage of which come from modest financial backgrounds” (As cited in “Latino students lag behind,” 2005) * Merisotis states, “We know that Latino students are not entering and completing college at rates similar to other groups. Addressing economic disparities is one of the biggest steps we can take to improve success rates for the Hispanic community.” (As cited in “Latino students lag behind,” 2005) 10. Additional Point: U.S government should help Mexican students because Mexico has played and important role in the U.S Economy and so it will since Mexican population is increasing in the
Does the Adolescent Brain Make Risk Taking Inevitable? Adolescence College students and adolescents are more daring in taking risks than adults and children as evidenced by data and statistics on binge drinking, automobile crashes, crime and contraceptive use. However, trying to understand why adolescents take such risks than in any other developmental stage has been a challenge for psychologists for decades. Several theories to explain the adolescents more involvement in riskier behaviors have been developed, but only a few of them withstood empirical scrutiny (Harding, 2007). One of such theories is by Laurence Steinberg, who holds that brain science demonstrates that the adolescents’ brain plays a big role in influencing adolescents undertake riskier behaviors.
It is reported that 3 to 4 per 1,000 people are mentally retarded (Ellis, 1986). It is not always easy to recognize a mentally retarded person by a customary glance. Two main ways to determine mental retardation are: (1) certain physical characteristics and/or (2) when an infant/child fails to make normal developmental progress (mental or physical) (Ellis, 1986). One major problem regarding mental retardation is knowledge of the accurate definition and limitations of the disability (Bray, 1990). In the past, society and several professions have not given mentally retarded persons the necessary resources.
Public economic benefits: decreased reliance on public assistance, increased tax revenue, greater productivity, increased consumption, and increased competitive advantage (through human capital). Private social benefits: better health, increase in quality of life for children, better consumer decision making, and personal status. Public social benefits: reduced crime rate, increased volunteerism, social cohesion, increased voting participation, and increased ability to adapt, change and learn (Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2013). COSTS VS. WAGES Although the unemployment rate is still quite high (7.5 in July of 2014 down from 8.3 in December of 2013), economically our young can’t afford not to attend college (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014). The study performed by Pew Research, tells us that a college degree increases the real dollar average income of college graduates compared to those that have not attended college.
The theory claims that learning crime takes place through observing people (like peers, parents and so on), from there if the person if exposed to more pro-criminal attitudes than anti-criminal attitudes then they are more likely to offend. This was supported by Farrington who carried out a longitudinal study of 411 boys from deprived areas from ages 8 till 50years. After the study, they found out that criminality developed in a context of inappropriate role models and dysfunctional systems of reward and punishment. Although this study seems to show that criminality develops from the environment methodological issues have to be taken into account. A limitation using a longitudinal study is that participants might withdraw from the study which might be an under representative of how criminality is measured.
There are not enough willing families to make up for the numerous amount of older children who need to be adopted. The process was simplified in hopes that more families would show interest. Whereas adoptions of toddlers and infants may take up to two years to complete everything, the adoption of an older child will be a much shorter experience. Another reason adopting an older child can be quick is that the parental rights of an older child’s birth parents have been removed by the time he is put up for adoption. Not having to worry about the birth parents parental rights allows the adoption process to be much smoother due to the fact that the case will not have to go through the court system for as long as an adoption of a young child.
Over the past decade researchers have identified intervention strategies and program models that reduce delinquency and promote pro-social development. Preventing delinquency not only saves young lives from being wasted, but also prevents the onset of adult criminal careers and thus reduces the burden of crime on its victims and on society. It costs states billions of dollars a year to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate, and treat juvenile offenders. Investing in successful delinquency-prevention programs can save taxpayers millions of dollars each year. There are many reasons to prevent juveniles from becoming delinquents or from continuing to engage in delinquent behavior.