Moonshine Children Research Paper

   Throughout There Are No Children Here, a continuous, powerful tension always lurks in the background. The gangs that are rampant in the housing projects of Chicago cause this tension. In the Henry Horner Homes, according to Kotlowitz, one person is beaten, shot, or stabbed due to gangs every three days. In one week during the author's study of the projects, police confiscated 22 guns and 330 grams of cocaine in Horner alone (Kotlowitz 32).

During the 1980s and 1990s a crack epidemic started to occur in the united states consequently the amount of Prenatal cocaine exposure, also commonly known as “crack babies”, started to rise as well (“Ferguson”). In the year 1989 a hospital in South Carolina decided to start performing urine test on pregnant mothers in the hopes that they would be able to find the mothers using cocaine and refer them to counseling. Shortly after the testing was introduced the Medical University of South Carolina decided that these mothers would also be passed over to the city of Charleston's police for prosecution (“Ferguson”).

Many juveniles in America are exposed every day to abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and poverty. These issues are a growing problem, and without successful intervention by a caring guardian these children will often struggle and fall into depression and desperateness. Frequently juveniles do not have the tools to manage the psychological and emotional challenges of adolescence, and they will ultimately engage in destructive or criminal behavior. In most cases the dysfunction that creates this delinquent behavior is ignored, and instead these kids lives are subjected to even further chaos when they are placed in the criminal justice system.

Juveniles and adults have been segregated in just about every aspect of life for most of this country’s history. Juveniles are equal to adults, obviously, but they are not entitled to the same privileges and are not subjected to the same responsibility as adults are. But for some reason, juveniles must be considered as adults when it comes to the court system. Adolescents should definitely be punished for their inexcusable actions, but they still have lots of years of maturation ahead of them before they are fully developed mentally.

Kid nation was a reality tv show where kids run a ghost town that was located in new mexico without parents only kids. It was an experience that many kids will never forget but there was occasion that did not turn out well and did affect the kids in very awful ways those ways were physical and mental injury were two big ones but their was also how the town affect the kids and many internal problems.Many people believe that kid nation was a good experience for kids but for my own personal opinion I think that it was very bad for the kids and could have scarred them for life.

The problem of gangs is growing, and not only in major city centers. The Justice Department says there are now 30,000 gangs with more than 800,000 members. The National Youth Gang Centre (NYGC), which conducts an annual survey that is funded by the Justice Department, concedes that every town of 250,000 people now has a gang problem.

Poor education, low school attendance, peer pressure, disadvantaged socioeconomic status, and substance abuse are a few factors that have the greatest impact upon the commission of crimes by juveniles. These factors could possibly drive a young person to commit crimes. I strongly feel that the social learning has contributed a major role in the juvenile world from negative influences. Once those negative influences are within the youth, they then display their actions within their criminal behavior. Overall, it is very concise that the propensity for criminal behavior begins prior to adulthood.

Parents with troubled teens sometimes turn to boot camps to help their children. Juvenile boot camps are styled after military training camps and are designed to instill disciple and structure in young people. It started as an alternative to jail teenagers who had committed crimes and most state run programs for these troubled teens.

Pablo Escobar, Gus Fring, and Walter White. These are the names of well-known drug lords in the drug world. They were the top of the food chain like Walter White said “I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!”. This hidden world is filled with violence, lust, greed, anger, sorrow wrath, and vainglory. To walk down this thorny path would mean to prepare yourself for a shift from your own reality. You will face things that will make you change for the better or for the worst. With these experiences makes a drug lord. Life circumstances directs a person's decision in becoming drug lords.

“Don’t let your fear of what could happen make nothing happen at all.” A lot of times, we let our phobia get the best of us and miss out on fun opportunities because we are afraid of of what could happen. In addition, we can’t obtain experience to learn from our mistakes. Had I let my fear get the best of me, Teen Wolf would have never became my favorite show.

In my opinion, I believe that the most effective treatment for delinquent juveniles is juvenile intensive probation supervision (JIPS), and the most ineffective are diversion programs. Juvenile intensive probation supervision or JIPS is very similar to regular probation, the main difference is that in JIPS the supervision and interaction between the probation officer and the juvenile is more interactive and closely monitored to ensure that the juvenile stays on the right path to successfully complete the treatment and exit the system (Arizona Judicial Branch). Besides that juveniles must agree to follow certain rules during JIPS, with that being said each state has different rules that juveniles must follow but these rules are very similar in all states, for the

With the outcry of the community and the local media, in Leflore County, Mississippi, children and youth service organizations have been attempting to find solutions to decrease the high rate of reported child abuse incidents. In Leflore County, service providers, county legal systems, and community agencies also wanted to provide interventions focusing on the prevention of child abuse. One of the first steps taken was a revamping of the county children and youth system beginning in May of 2004, which focused on restructuring the administrative staff and on the development of a new training process. In addition, the expectations for casework personnel were also enhanced.

Letting them decide their own path, means to support them fully, no matter what decision they choose, let go of what control you have and give them support. This is a Japanese anime movie called "Wolf Children," directed by Hosoda Mamoru. Its released in 2012.

One person I have found to be most interesting to write about is my youngest sister Mia. When Mia first enters a room, she does not walk in, she runs as fast as her little toddler feet while allow her to. Since Mia is always running around and constantly sweating, her head tends to smell like potatoes. Her voice is high-pitched and squeaky. When she wines or cries it is the worst, because it sounds like she is screaming at the top of her lungs. She is two feet tall, weighing about thirty-seven pounds with messy, dark brown hair. Her crazy hair is always in a knot on top of her head. Mia's eyebrows are thick and dark just like her big sisters. Many people tend to say that we all look very much alike. She has the cutest, big brown

The abuse and exploitation of youth, is not, in any way, a new concept in the world that we live in, however it is extremely misrepresented. Authors, Karen Countryman-Roswurm, assistant professor and director of the Center for Combating Human Trafficking, and Brien Bolin, professor and director of the School of Social Work, are PhD-holding alumni of Wichita State University and have offered insight on the topic of human trafficking, ranging from its causation, misrepresentation and its effect on youth. Human trafficking, which “involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person under the age of 18 for the purposes of a commercial sex act,” is also called Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking,