Nabeel Basit Final Draft—PPP&L Journal Alford v. Greene—How an Unreasonable Seizure Led To an Unreasonable Interview I. Introduction Alford v. Greene dealt with the unconstitutional seizure of a young girl. In Alford v. Greene and Greene v. Camreta (which was consolidated into Alford v. Greene), caseworker Greene and Deputy Sheriff Alford seized a young girl and interrogated her in a private office at her elementary school for two hours. This was done without a warrant, probable cause, or parental consent, because they suspected the mother's husband may have been sexually molesting the girl and her sister. Deputy Alford had a visible firearm during the interview.
Matt Breslow 5/1/12 English 12 Carnright Teen Curfews Research Paper If your son/daughter was out past 9 p.m., would you feel safe? Many people have said no to this question with all the crime in the streets as of now. With the 2,800 juveniles that were arrested for homicide in 1994 (Teen Curfews), many people wouldn’t want their kids to be in that statistic. Because of this high number of arrested teens, they began to have curfews that made kids stay inside their homes after a set time. These curfews were made to enforce the law and try to lower the teen crime rate.
Part One - The Microcosm and the national dilemma In 1973 Steve Bercu who is an attorney battled both state and federal courts against the Texas Youth Council. The Texas Youth Council is a state governmental agency-serving children within all its penal facilities. In 1970 Bercu started this career in El Paso looking into the county court sending children who had no representation to detention centers. He represented twelve minors who were not allowed to speak with him in private and ordered the children not to speak about the conditions. Later finding that sixty percent of the children in the detention centers did not have representation however, in 1972 Bercu filed a writ of habeas corpus to release 565 children he believed had been denied
His mother, Gloria, was struggling to raise three children by herself. The family moved in with an older couple who offered to help them. Nathaniel couldn’t be watched all the time so he would all ways get into trouble and Nathaniel was a constant source of aggravation for his mother. Police reported that Nathaniel was suspected in over 22 local crimes, ranging from assault to armed robbery. All this by the age of eleven.
During the last decade, the lack of urgency in implementing this law has resulted in nearly 1,000,000 youth being at risk of sexual victimization in adult jails and prisons. The regulations include the Youthful Inmate Standard, which bans the housing of youth in the general adult population, prohibits contact between youth and adults in common
Special Issue – Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Parens Patriae (Lat. “parent of the country.”) In the United States, the “parens patriae” doctrine has had its greatest application in the treatment of children, mentally ill persons, and other individuals who are legally incompetent to manage their own affairs. The state is the supreme guardian of all children within its jurisdiction and has the inherent power to intervene in order to protect children whose wellbeing is at risk by controversies between parents, therefore the state court can invoke parens patriae to protect the welfare and interest of a persons’ health and comfort. Due Process defined in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, protects the American
It was frustrating and infuriating to read internal government documents attempting to justify its blatantly wrong actions. The group photos of whole neighborhoods, where no men are present because they've all been rounded up to Camps or volunteered to serve in the military, were powerful images of how entire communities were impacted in those years. There are few shots of little children, holding on to their stuffed toys, crying and clinging to their mothers, that was just plain sad. The internment ends up with a landmark case Korematsu V. United States and a decision made by the supreme court, Ex parte Endo. The case stated that the exclusion process in general was constitutional, but the decision declared that loyal citizens of the United States, regardless of cultural descent, could not be detained without cause.
Recognizing the codependency and accepting it as a role in the dysfunctional family is the first step in breaking the cycle. Education is the key freedom and therapy is the door that will open the family to healing. The co-dependent parent must stop enabling their children but more importantly they must heal themselves. The issues that they have hid from must surface and they must be addressed. The most effective way to healing and ultimately changing is through professional therapy.
Most offenders either had no one around, were abused, or had drug and alcoholics for parents, most of time it was a combination of these. So as I see it the best way to stop over crowding is to prevent crime by preventing criminals and the way we do that is to spot these children at early ages and address the issues they are having. When I was a kid I was put on juvenile probation, if they would have been more focused on what was causing my acting out
Each year, an estimated 3 to 10 million children witness assaults against a parent by an intimate partner. (Straus, 1992) Domestic violence does not discriminate across lines of race, culture, nationality or gender. It occurs at the same rate in both homosexual and heterosexual relationships (Mills et al., 2000). The experience of family violence can be among the most disturbing for children because both victims and aggressors are the adults who care for them and who are most closely attached to them. For many of these children, violence interrupts their experience of consistent safety and care, and creates an environment of uncertainty and helplessness.