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The truth on youth crime
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The truth on youth crime 01 November 2005 As public alarm mounts over youth crime, the man charged with tackling our juvenile criminals suggests the problems - and answers - may not be as black and white as they seem. Anna Claridge reports. Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft relaxes back in his chair as he attempts to set the record straight. "Youth crime is not sky-rocketing," he says. "The belief that it could be is understandable because there are a few tragic black spo ...
Magistrates urge cannabis reversal
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Perhaps somebody could point out ANY facts quoted in this article which are true. <> Magistrates urge cannabis reversal MAGISTRATES voted overwhelmingly today to lobby the Government to reverse the controversial reclassification of cannabis. The decision was taken following a motion at the Magistrates' Association annual conference which claimed that moving the drug from Class B to Class C had led to its greater use and given out the wrong messages to young people. The motion, to return to ...
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Youth Court Manual, Juvenile Justice, Community Service Learning, Teen Giving Back Introducing Community Service Learning Improving Mandated Community Service for Juvenile Offenders This free, downloadable manual gives youth courts and other juvenile-justice agencies the tools they need to apply school-based service-learning methods to court-mandated community-service. Recently pdated and revised Giving Back provides skill-building strategies and materials to: Introduce juvenile offenders to basic concepts of community and community problems. Offer three options for planning and implementing community service-learning projects designed to deal with ten offenses ...
The Center for Court Innovation - Red Hook Youth Court WHAT IS IT? Launched in 1998, the Red Hook Youth Court trains local teenagers to serve as jurors, judges and attorneys, handling real-life cases involving their peers. The goal of the Court is to use positive peer pressure to ensure that young people who have committed minor offenses pay back the community and receive the help they need to avoid further involvement in the justice system. Part of the Red Hook Community Justice Center , the Youth Court handles cases involving young people, ages 10 to 18, who have been cited for low-level ...
Programs Sebastopol Community Center provides services and facilities, which support the general recreational and enrichment opportunities for those in the West County. Sebastopol's need for safe and flexible facilities have encouraged these efforts. Jugalbandi begun in 2000, this program provides West County school children with the opportunity to interact with and learn from world famous artists presenting music, stories, dance, and theater. For more information on this great program and for ways you can help us in this effort, see our Jugalbandi Page. Day Camp ...
AYPF Press Release - Youth Court: A Community Solution to The National Youth Court Center (NYCC) serves as an information clearinghouse, provides training and technical assistance through conferences, regional training seminars, onsite technical assistance, and workshops, and serves as an informational clearinghouse for new and established Youth/Teen Court programs. The Center also provides resources to allied agencies that support Youth Court programs, including the American Bar Association, the Street Law, Inc, and The Constitutional Rights Foundation/Chicago. For more information about youth courts and to find one near you, visit: www.youthcourt.net .
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. OJJDP supports states and communities in their efforts to develop and implement effective and coordinated prevention and intervention programs and to improve the juvenile justice system so that it protects public safety, holds offenders accountable, and provides treatment and rehabilitative services tailored to the needs of juveniles and their families. For more information about the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, visit: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org ...
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A Different View on School Desegregation The initial reaction in most liberal circles about the recent Supreme Court decision on so-called voluntary desegregation plans does not surprise me. The prevailing view is that it represents another setback to progress from a reactionary court. What you will not hear much of is the reaction from grassroots black communities, black youth or from older black folks who were educated in public schools before the period of forced busing and comprehensive court-ordered desegregation/ integration plans. You will not be reminded of the fact that there have ...
Protecting Brampton by Protecting our youth Community Notes Community annoucements, notices, happenings, events and news releases from various individuals, organizations, groups and media outlets. View all articles by Community Notes Brampton - In today's GTA, the pace of population growth and the rapid birth of new subdivisions can leave neighborhoods socially disconnected. Though a commonality of values may exist, socio-economic realities attenuate this disconnect. Parents are working longer and harder to make a living, community spaces and volunteers to run programs are in short supply. There are not enough mentors and schools are ill prepared to manage ...
Brampton - In today's GTA, the pace of population growth and the rapid birth of new subdivisions can leave neighborhoods socially disconnected. Though a commonality of values may exist, socio-economic realities attenuate this disconnect. Parents are working longer and harder to make a living, community spaces and volunteers to run programs are in short supply. There are not enough mentors and schools are ill prepared to manage the ever present challenges that subsist within their increasingly diverse school populations. Added to the mix is that children today are exposed to a wider range of negative influences. ...
Briefly in Tompkins Dryden Road garage to reopen Saturday The Dryden Road parking garage will reopen Saturday, Aug. 11, after two months of rehabilitation, the City of Ithaca announced Thursday. The reopening ends a controversy that started in the summer of 2006 when many Collegetown merchants complained the garage was going to be closed for repairs as Cornell University students returned for the fall semester. The city stopped work and reopened the garage, pushing back rehabilitation work until this year, scheduling it so that it would be done ahead of the start ...
Significant Elements discounts items Significant Elements, the architectural-elements warehouse of Historic Ithaca, is having a clearance sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Saturday, Aug. 11 at 212 Center St., the corner of Center and Plain streets. Everything in stock will be discounted 10 percent to 25 percent, including all lighting 25 percent off. Currently in stock are whole cabinetry sets, salvaged brick, decorative garden items, cast iron and wrought iron planters, interesting furniture pieces including several desks, a kitchen table and a full dining ...
Skate parks: A bad rap? Glen Spieth hates what has happened to Kiwanis Park in Lakewood. He and other neighbors say after-hours skate park trespassers blast music, race cars, even have sex on picnic tables. He’s complained to the City Council at least four times since late May. Sumner City Administrator John Doan said his city’s park has value, despite what police statistics and stereotypes might suggest. Some people assume a gathering of baggy-pants, shaggy-haired skaters is cause for alarm, he said. Paul Ellis, ...
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Why did tweaking the Ted Stevens Airport The Democrats, you say? They're busy squatting with their fucking backs turned to the primate Republicans, hands on their heads, in the classic submissive posture recognized and approved by said Republican primates. They don't want their own graft and incompetence to be introduced to the withering light of day by exposing that of the GOP's. And they could. They have mouths. They all speak English. Drifty, a staggering bit of research. Has anyone tried adding up all that pork? I'd do it myself on a calculator except I have only three days this weekend. ...
What a humoungus list... Gotta be dedicated to find the comment bar today... I hold with some buzi-regs for fairness's sake, like a Dem, but I'm Independent, and I'm for the right way to treat people no matter the origin, religion, or party affiliation. I broke up with the last 2 guys because I could not tolerate their racist mentality which aired after time in a private setting. ... Many of my extended family don't fall in any common origin or color ranges. Some are blonde, redhead, brunnette, partly white, black, and or Arabic, South American, ...