Adult

Children ages fourteen or under should never be convicted as adults no matter the crime. One reason they shouldn’t be tried is because the child could have been abused or in any other way be neglected by a family member. This reason showed itself in a case in Alabama where Susan Ferriss writes “And if ever a pathological background might have contributed to a 14-year-old’s commission of a crime, it is here. Miller’s stepfather physically abused him, the ruling said, his alco­holic and…

Aging is a state of mind, its what you make of it that determines how you feel about aging. During our younger years we never address the fact that we are all aging. For most people the idea of aging is frightening. Everyone ages at different rates and times depending on the person and experiences in their lives. Tons of research has been done on the idea of different types of aging: chronological age vs. functional age. Chronological age is the number of years a person has lived while…

American Journal of Public Health, 103(4), 679-685. A longitudinal study of four-hundred homeless adults located in the St. Louis area was conducted by collecting the previous addresses and sleeping locations of the individuals and comparisons were made over a one to two year follow-up interview. The intention of this article is to examine the changing neighborhood characteristics of homeless adults. This study identifies the type of areas homeless individuals are more likely to use for…

While interning in New Britain Adult Probation, I observed how each probation officer had their own style when it came to counseling their clients. The more time I spent in adult probation and with different probation officers, I began to wonder how successful these tactics were. Therefore, I will be researching how effective - in terms of successful completion of probation and parole and low recidivism rates - different forms of counseling are to individuals on either probation or parole. The…

you dealt with as a young adult?, to describe the stress management techniques you used to overcome these obstacles., Do you have any lifestyle modifications to decrease your risk for chronic diseases?, to describe the importance of family in your life., to describe the importance of friends in your life., and What advice do you have for me related to living a healthy lifestyle? During the interview I learned about different stressors by mother faced as a young adult that were out of her…

treatment decision-making, and surgical planning in the older population. The consequence of frailty in older adults is not only increased risk of adverse health outcomes, but also higher rates of institutionalization, morbidity, postoperative complications, and mortality. Therefore, it is logical that as the aging population increases globally, escalating care burden of frail older adults might significantly affect either direct or indirect health-care costs. In order to prevent negative…

juveniles. Some Americans believe children should be tried as adults, yet others feel that they are too young to understand their wrong doings. In most conditions minors are quickly told they are too young or too old for something, however before being sent to an adult facility we need to contemplate all aspects of the case in order to decided whether or not being tried as an adult is necessary. Regardless of the crime, some people feel that an adult facility is not a suitable environment for…

position of adolescents in the legal system because of the question about whether to treat adolecents as adults or as children. That is to say, there are two opposing opinions regarding the treatment of adolescents within the legal system. The first view is called the “adolescent-as-child” view. In this view, adolescents are more closely related to children in their capacities than they are to adults. Therefore, they deserve a different set of standards that apply due to…

years, and everyone interviewed was over the age of thirty. Which I believe to be ideal because it would consider them fully developed individuals, seeing as how we go through thirty years of development (Herrenkohl). The results found claimed that adults mistreated as children reported signs of depression, anxiety, and disabilities from mental and physical health complications, as well as increase their chances of alcoholic problems and substance abuse (Herrenkohl). The research in this article…

may seem that teenagers make their spontaneous decisions based on randomness or pure thoughtlessness, a better explanation of adolescence irrationality would be a lack of brain development, or rather a difference between the maturity of the teen and adult brain. This difference is what has shaped the stereotype of the typical teenager as impulsive, spontaneous, and dramatic. Teenagers as a whole are infamous for their rashness and overall wild nature. They are depicted in movies and books as…