• Posts Tagged ‘juvenile laws’

    Is it legal to try a 12-year-old as an adult?


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    In April, 2013, 8-year-old Leila Fowler was stabbed to death in her home in a small community outside Sacramento, California. She and her 12-year-old brother were home alone while their parents were at a Little League game.  At first, the boy told the police that a …

    Bullying cases gone too far?


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    Last month, an eighth grade student in New Jersey was on trial for allegedly calling another student “fat”, “horse” and “fat a$#”. The boy claims he just called her “horse” and nothing more and that such name-calling does not violate New Jersey’s anti-bullying law. Therefore, …

    Youth incarceration in U.S. drops


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    In 2010, the youth confinement* rate reached a 35-year low. Juvenile justice systems across the country locked up fewer delinquents which did not lead to a rise in juvenile crime. Over the years, studies have shown that it is counterproductive to rely on incarceration as …

  • Teen driver deaths up in 2012


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    The Governor’s Highway Safety Association studied car accidents for the first six months of 2012. Although the overall number of deaths of teen drivers decreased across the country over a ten-year period (since 2002), the numbers increased since 2010. The study included 16 and 17-year-old drivers from January …

    Fifth graders plot to kill classmates


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    Two boys at Fort Colville Elementary School in Washington planned to kill several classmates in February, 2013. One of the boys was seen with a knife at school and a student reported it which led to the discovery of a semi-automatic handgun, the knife and …

    Do Supreme Court decisions have an immediate effect on your life?


    Supreme Court Justices 2012

    You may be wondering what this means. If the Supreme Court decides a case and issues a ruling, isn’t that the law of the land from that day on? Were it not for the human factor, that would be true. But since individual judges are …

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