What Is Fight Crime : Invest For Children?

Educating the partners on the prevalence of abuse in our community and what we can do to protect more kids, increases the capacity to lead community efforts. Each meeting that I hold at the CAC shares a little bit of knowledge about emerging trends and practices in our work. Having representation from the various groups is essential for this capacity building and also having more community education events.

For the purpose of this interview, I interviewed Mrs. Ann Clare- School Psychologist and Mrs. Scott Nelson- School Principal.

On Monday, October 17, 2016, I had the privilege of observing and interviewing a Child Care Center Director. The director has not been in the director position

Despite the long-term benefits of transposing developmental crime prevention approaches, they can be seen as problematic as well. One of the major problems is that because it addresses social issues, its evaluation becomes difficult and complex . Additionally, getting public support is also difficult due to the media. Instead portraying the benefits of such initiatives, the media has the tendency to shape the public’s view that crime prevention requires more police control and harsher punishments for offenders .

For the example in this memo, I will be focusing on the funding of educational programs. As you are aware, 38% of the property taxes fund school programs such as athletics, arts, and all day kindergarten. Due to the great recession, property values here in the Knoxtown area were greatly affected and a majority of properties lost nearly 50% of their assessed value. A significant portion of our constituents also lost their homes. Due in some part to these two factors, our projected revenue was not met. The overall revenue for the city was down 42% resulting in a serious budget shortfall. The loss of these property taxes resulted in the cutting of many school programs. The children of our constituents not have fewer athletic and arts programs to choose from as well as eliminating full day kindergarten for the next term. If corrections to the budget are not made, some bus services and reduced lunch programs will also be eliminated.

Focus: Ms. Smalls (MHP) administered the Casey Life skills assessment, the Circle of support and the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths assessment with the assistance of Ms. Givens (MHS) and Antazia.

I am responsible for reviewing and interpreting quasi-experimental outcome evaluation results to assess the effectiveness of state funded programs administered through the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA). I use Excel to recalculate the results for program participants and reference groups to determine the accuracy of information provided in the counties’ progress reports. After validating program results, the data is exported from Access and then import into SPSS. Using SPSS, new variables are created and some variables for data analysis. In addition to cleaning and formatting data, paired samples T-tests are ran to compare measures by group differences across 56 counties.

Client interviews with Mary Smith (mother) and Shayla Smith (minor child) on August 12, 2013

As mentioned by Thompson (2010), in the Associated Press, “Lawmakers bridged a $19 billion shortfall, more than 20 percent of the $87.5 billion general fund spending plan”. This shows that the state was heading towards a financial crisis and more deficit creation. Moreover, Thompson (2010), in the Associated Press also points out that “It includes no tax or fee increases but uses a combination of cuts, funding shifts, delayed corporate tax breaks and assumptions about money the state hopes to receive”. The budget gave rise to other dependent costs such as delayed tax refunds. It was uncertain that the State will receive the required funds from the federal government to ensure that the important programs will function the way it used to be until the funds are received.

UTMA Violations Pat had completely drained his children 's college fund account. Under the UTMA, any funds gifted to children, whether or not the donor is a/the custodian of the account, become an immediately-vested and irrevocable gift. Pat, as a potential custodian of a UTMA account, would have a fiduciary duty to use the money in the best interest of his children, such as investing the money to earn interest revenue. It is not in the children 's best interest for their father to gamble with their college funds. Therefore, the money put into the college funds could have been property of the children and should not have been mishandled by Pat to support his gambling addiction.

Dr. Scott Coefield provided the most insightful budget analysis I have ever been privileged to. As a fifteen year educator, the budget is one of those words that are very rarely spoken inside the school building, unless there is a budget cut, or proration. Dr. Coefield provided a line by line, detailed analysis of the fiscal year budget and importance of each line. Not only did he provide a detailed analysis he explained why it is vitally important for all stakeholders to know what is going on with their budget. Dr. Coefiled, did state that not all superintendents are financially driven and trust their chief financial officer to help make good sound decisions. However, any aspiring superintendent needs to know how to

The “Get Tough on Crime” initiatives have experienced massive failure in the reduction of crimes in The United States, furthermore is the reason for thousands of individuals behind bars (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Routinely, this has been advocating for zero tolerance in felony offenses handing out punishments whereby the criminals face the total rule of law. Some practices that the initiative advocates are for include three strike laws and the mandatory minimum sentencing. Although they were aimed at reducing crimes, they spur aggression on the public due to the heavy costs, additionally, the inability to deliver justice effectively.

By working together, local organizations no longer need to compete for resources, duplicate efforts, and can come together to address the long-term needs of the community like ensuring kids are prepared to learn and families have the tools they need to remain employed. “It is energizing to work with a group of visionaries who, instead of competing for precious resources, are eager to share and collaborate for the greater good of the people we serve,” stated Stephanie Slayton, Program Manager with Project Self-Sufficiency, a Community Impact Partner focused on helping working families

When individuals adopt a “tough on crime” perspective, there are numerous costs affiliated with crime prevention or crime control. Cohen, Rust, Steen & Tidd (2004) analyze the public’s willingness to pay for crime control programs associated with punishment being the main deterrent of crime. The researchers evaluate the cost-benefit analysis, which compare the cost of criminal justice policies to their crime control benefits. The study was composed of 1, 300 randomly selected US residences of 18 years of age or older, that were selected through random digit dialing. Each respondent was asked to fill out questions that addressed if they were willing to vote for a proposal that requires each household in the community to pay a certain amount of money per year to prevent one in 10 crimes in their community. Throughout the questionnaire, individuals were given 3 out of 5 hypothetical crime situations that were chosen randomly which included burglary, serious assault, robbery, rape or sexual assault and murder. In order to prevent what researchers Armand & Zamble (2001) wanted to prove, the participants were not given any information or description of the chosen crimes, they were asked to answer based on their own understanding. The amounts of money to be paid out of the individuals pocket were in increments of 25$ starting at 25$ to 225$. The researchers hypothesized that individuals were more likely to give less money to crime prevention if they felt less at