Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

when gender, race or ethnicity, family structure, and social class were controlled.” (Widom & Maxfield, 2001). To further highlight this phenomena, M.T. Zingradd and his colleagues conducted a similar study. This study was conducted in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Samples were taken from a school and the Department of Health and Social Services Records. The study focused on maltreated children. To draw this comparison, they used two samples of nonmaltreared children. Samples were taken…

The massive surge in legislation in the 1990s written with the purpose of protecting the public from persons convicted for sexual crimes has produced complex and multi-faceted consequences for neighborhoods where sex offenders reside. Sex offender legislation set out to register and control the movement of convicted sex offenders. This principle of public protection resulted in the establishment of the sex offender registry, community notification, and residency restrictions laws. However,…

Overcrowding in Public Schools: The Problem Needs to be Fixed in a Timelier Manner In the United States of America, there is an overcrowding problem in our schools, the school systems need to give this issue more attention before things get much worse. Overcrowding occurs when the number of students enrolled in the school is larger than the number of students the school is designed to accommodate (“Condition of Americas Public School System”). Although the school systems have taken some actions…