YOUNG OFFENDERS
These days more and more young people are turning to crimes. These crimes are being committed by young offenders of all ages. The crimes they are committing are get even more and more serious and in the last five years the percentage of youngsters committing more crime has increase by more then 50%. Young offenders are committing these crimes because the know that the punishment is real weak. If you ask me most young offenders think the young offenders act is a JOKE, and trust me I am a young person I know just as other young people.
"A young offender is a person between the ages of 12-17. This person is a person who comities a crime and is given special rights. These right are less server then adults would get if they committee this same offenses."
There are many cases where a young offender has got off much easier then a adult and no punishment at all. In one case in particular "A boy who was 11 years old who has been in trouble with the law before took a girl with him to his apartment with his gang and then raped her. Then when the police arrived he said you can not touch me" . This to me is very sad first off because he is only 11 years old and he raped a girl but the thing I found most shocking and the rest off the media was that when the police arrived he told them that they could not touch him. Even though he did committee the crime and he should have been charged but sadly e was right. This young offenders knows that the young offenders act is a joke and that is why he committed the crime. He could care less about what he did.
Another case talking about the young offenders act is the James Bulger. " Had the murder of toddler James Bulger occurred in Canada, his killer would never been charged. Under the Canadian law, no child under the age of 12 can be charged with any criminal act, no matter how odious." This was a cases which created a lot of heated discussion about the young offenders act. The discussion was that the young offenders act has to be more strictly and changes are need.
In another case a teen was charged for a murder. "An 18-year-old was killed with a baseball bat Tuesday after he was trapped at the entrance to a chopping mall in Hamilton by six youths out settle a grudge against his younger brother. Police charged a 15-year-old with second-degree murder." . This teen committed a crime of murder and got charged with second degree murder but if a adult had committed this offenses he would have got charged with first degree murder.
Two teen got arrested and charged when they tried to hijack a bus. " A pair of grade 10 students armed with a knife and a gun tried to hijack a school bus from Osoyoos, B.C, to Ontario. A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old face kidnapping and weapons charges" . This is another typical example of what youth are doing and getting away with. If this was a an adult (a person over the age of 18) would have got charged with a much serious charge and would have had to pay a greater price.
Youth court in Ontario is held at city hall. At youth court is so far behind because of all the crimes. Most youth have to wait a few months before actual going to court and by then the less serious cases are then thrown out (because of the delay).
The days of youth going to play in the park, going to school, hang out are all come to any end. These times are being replaced by breaking the law in most cases and will remain so until the law is changed and the rules become more strictly. To most young people we believe the young offenders act is a JOKE.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Students Rights
Civics Report
Students Rights
I chose to do my report on students rights in the public
school system. Lisa Rowe, then sixteen a student at Teaneck High
School, in New Jersey, thought she was doing a good dead when
she returned a purse she'd found in her English class. When she
took the purse to the office instead of being rewarded she was told
to step into the principals office and asked to pull up her sweater
and pull down her slacks, and then she was searched. Why? In
case she was hiding stolen money from the purse. That is just one
example of how students rights are being violated, and here is
another. In the case T.L.O. Vs NEW JERSEY a girl got cought
smoking in the bathroom of her school. She was then taken to the
office, and asked to open her purse and spill out the contence.
What was found in the purse was marijauna a role of money and
notes sujesting that she was a marijuna dealer. Her parrents soon
filed a suit against the school on the basis that the evidence found
was obtained illegally becauce no search warrent was used. In
1985 the case got all the way to the supreme court. The court ruled
that the fourth amendment rights didn't apply in the school, and
school officialsstill have to have reasonable suspicion not probale
cause. Another famous case is the case TINKER Vs DES
MOINES where two students wanted to protest the war by
wearing arm bands. When the school officials saw what the two
students were wearing the teachers demanded that the students
take the arm bands off at once. The case got all the way to the
United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said that the
students had a right to wear arm bands just as long as they wernt
going to harm themselvs or any one elts. Just a coupple of laws on
students rights. The First Amendment says that you have a right to
freedom of speech, press, religion, and freedon to a peaceful
assembly. The Second Amendment says that you have the right to
be secure in your home, and your personal things, but apon
probable cause. Can students lockers be searched without a search
warrent? Yes, your lockers can be searched without a warrent,
only reasonable susipision that a rule or law has been broken is all
that is needed to preform a search. Can students be subject to
mass searches on campus? No, there must be suspicion directed at
each student beaing searched. What should you do if something of
yours is getting searched the best thing to do is to say in a loud
clear voice that you dont want them to searech your things so that
you can have witneses, but don't try to stop them. Most important
of all don't put anything in your locker that you don't want anyone
to see. I feel that students rights are being violated mare than
people know. If more people knew exactly what rights they had it
would make alot of things better and easier to understand.
Biblography
Cover, Marilyn. "Should Students have Rights," Update, Winter 1985, 11-15
Reprintedin Privacy, Volume 3 (Boac Ruton, Flordia: Social
Recources Series, Inc, 1993) Article number, 42.
Price, Janet R. Levine, Alan H., Cary, Eve, The Rightsof Students, United
States of America, American Civil Liberties Union, 1988.
Schuessler, Nancy, "A Question of Rights." Seventeen, May 1989,
192-193+207.
Sudo, Phil, "Do You Know Your Rights," Scholastic Update, (September 21,
1990) 6-8 25+26.
Zirkel, Perry A., "Searching and Researching," Phi Delta Kappan, Volume
71, (December 1989), 330-332.
Students Rights
I chose to do my report on students rights in the public
school system. Lisa Rowe, then sixteen a student at Teaneck High
School, in New Jersey, thought she was doing a good dead when
she returned a purse she'd found in her English class. When she
took the purse to the office instead of being rewarded she was told
to step into the principals office and asked to pull up her sweater
and pull down her slacks, and then she was searched. Why? In
case she was hiding stolen money from the purse. That is just one
example of how students rights are being violated, and here is
another. In the case T.L.O. Vs NEW JERSEY a girl got cought
smoking in the bathroom of her school. She was then taken to the
office, and asked to open her purse and spill out the contence.
What was found in the purse was marijauna a role of money and
notes sujesting that she was a marijuna dealer. Her parrents soon
filed a suit against the school on the basis that the evidence found
was obtained illegally becauce no search warrent was used. In
1985 the case got all the way to the supreme court. The court ruled
that the fourth amendment rights didn't apply in the school, and
school officialsstill have to have reasonable suspicion not probale
cause. Another famous case is the case TINKER Vs DES
MOINES where two students wanted to protest the war by
wearing arm bands. When the school officials saw what the two
students were wearing the teachers demanded that the students
take the arm bands off at once. The case got all the way to the
United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said that the
students had a right to wear arm bands just as long as they wernt
going to harm themselvs or any one elts. Just a coupple of laws on
students rights. The First Amendment says that you have a right to
freedom of speech, press, religion, and freedon to a peaceful
assembly. The Second Amendment says that you have the right to
be secure in your home, and your personal things, but apon
probable cause. Can students lockers be searched without a search
warrent? Yes, your lockers can be searched without a warrent,
only reasonable susipision that a rule or law has been broken is all
that is needed to preform a search. Can students be subject to
mass searches on campus? No, there must be suspicion directed at
each student beaing searched. What should you do if something of
yours is getting searched the best thing to do is to say in a loud
clear voice that you dont want them to searech your things so that
you can have witneses, but don't try to stop them. Most important
of all don't put anything in your locker that you don't want anyone
to see. I feel that students rights are being violated mare than
people know. If more people knew exactly what rights they had it
would make alot of things better and easier to understand.
Biblography
Cover, Marilyn. "Should Students have Rights," Update, Winter 1985, 11-15
Reprintedin Privacy, Volume 3 (Boac Ruton, Flordia: Social
Recources Series, Inc, 1993) Article number, 42.
Price, Janet R. Levine, Alan H., Cary, Eve, The Rightsof Students, United
States of America, American Civil Liberties Union, 1988.
Schuessler, Nancy, "A Question of Rights." Seventeen, May 1989,
192-193+207.
Sudo, Phil, "Do You Know Your Rights," Scholastic Update, (September 21,
1990) 6-8 25+26.
Zirkel, Perry A., "Searching and Researching," Phi Delta Kappan, Volume
71, (December 1989), 330-332.
Public Contaversy
Public Controversy
The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin, was a book that was truly ahead
of its time. The author of the book was truly a genius in her right, but yet she was
seen as a scoundrel. At the time, it was "a world that values only her performance
as a mother, whose highest expectations for women are self sacrifice and self-
effacement." ( ? ) The people of that era were not ready to admit or accept the
simple but hidden feelings of intimacy or sexuality and the true nature of
womanhood. Kate Chopin's book portrayed a woman of that time in a quite
unorthodox way. In fact, [ When she wrote the book in 1899, she ] "achieved
what was to prove her literary masterpiece and her ultimate break with popular
taste" ( Cully, Intro. )
That book was written in 1899. During this era women were seen as very
proper and sophisticated individuals who were considered caretakers of the
home. They wore an excessive amount of clothing and never exposed
themselves in public or otherwise. If a woman was caught exposing herself in
public, would be shunned and looked down upon. Loyalty and commitment to the
family was very important during this time. Regardless of their family problems,
they were expected to endure and stay faithful. [ In fact, ] " the nineteenth
century's message of the supremacy of motherhood was so strong and so intense
that it was absorbed into the systems of it's women - even women like Edna [ ,a
character in Chopin's book, ] who were not maternally inclined." ( ? ) You could
almost say that women were considered symbols of everything that is pure in the
society in which they lived. Anything short of that was considered unacceptable.
Because of the time that Chopin lived in: " The Appearance in print of her
most recent work had brought her harsh criticism and condemnation, as well as
ostracism from many of those who had always formed a close-knit world of St.
Louis society" ( Cully , vii ). Her book was seen as a vile and disgusting piece of
literature. One critic of that time stated : "One cannot refrain from regret that so
beautiful a style and so much refinement of taste have been spent by Miss
Chopin on an essentially vulgar story."( ? ). Most critics and readers of that era
felt the same way as this critic did. People were not willing to put up with what
they felt was a trashy novel. Thusly, it was banned for approximately 50 years. All
of her colleagues shunned her and put her on a black list of sorts for writers. Her
friends did not acknowledge her existence and she became an outcast in
society. In 1904, Chopin died a lonely death. The only thing that survived to keep
her memory alive was her writings.
Not only did her writings survive, but as timed passed on, people began to
see Chopin's true Genius. The appreciation for the novel grew and it became one
of the more well known, and well loved novels of the time. Why did this happen?
Well maybe it was because of the contravercy it introduced. To tell the truth, " the
misunderstanding that surrounds Edna's personal history, as well as the history of
Chopin's novel itself, attests to the greatness of both Edna and her creator." ( ? )
Chopin went from being known as an outcast of society to a pioneer of the
feminist movement. She was one of the first women to express herself fully
without conformity to societies pressures. All of this happened because of her
book. This book was named The Awakening.
The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin, was a book that was truly ahead
of its time. The author of the book was truly a genius in her right, but yet she was
seen as a scoundrel. At the time, it was "a world that values only her performance
as a mother, whose highest expectations for women are self sacrifice and self-
effacement." ( ? ) The people of that era were not ready to admit or accept the
simple but hidden feelings of intimacy or sexuality and the true nature of
womanhood. Kate Chopin's book portrayed a woman of that time in a quite
unorthodox way. In fact, [ When she wrote the book in 1899, she ] "achieved
what was to prove her literary masterpiece and her ultimate break with popular
taste" ( Cully, Intro. )
That book was written in 1899. During this era women were seen as very
proper and sophisticated individuals who were considered caretakers of the
home. They wore an excessive amount of clothing and never exposed
themselves in public or otherwise. If a woman was caught exposing herself in
public, would be shunned and looked down upon. Loyalty and commitment to the
family was very important during this time. Regardless of their family problems,
they were expected to endure and stay faithful. [ In fact, ] " the nineteenth
century's message of the supremacy of motherhood was so strong and so intense
that it was absorbed into the systems of it's women - even women like Edna [ ,a
character in Chopin's book, ] who were not maternally inclined." ( ? ) You could
almost say that women were considered symbols of everything that is pure in the
society in which they lived. Anything short of that was considered unacceptable.
Because of the time that Chopin lived in: " The Appearance in print of her
most recent work had brought her harsh criticism and condemnation, as well as
ostracism from many of those who had always formed a close-knit world of St.
Louis society" ( Cully , vii ). Her book was seen as a vile and disgusting piece of
literature. One critic of that time stated : "One cannot refrain from regret that so
beautiful a style and so much refinement of taste have been spent by Miss
Chopin on an essentially vulgar story."( ? ). Most critics and readers of that era
felt the same way as this critic did. People were not willing to put up with what
they felt was a trashy novel. Thusly, it was banned for approximately 50 years. All
of her colleagues shunned her and put her on a black list of sorts for writers. Her
friends did not acknowledge her existence and she became an outcast in
society. In 1904, Chopin died a lonely death. The only thing that survived to keep
her memory alive was her writings.
Not only did her writings survive, but as timed passed on, people began to
see Chopin's true Genius. The appreciation for the novel grew and it became one
of the more well known, and well loved novels of the time. Why did this happen?
Well maybe it was because of the contravercy it introduced. To tell the truth, " the
misunderstanding that surrounds Edna's personal history, as well as the history of
Chopin's novel itself, attests to the greatness of both Edna and her creator." ( ? )
Chopin went from being known as an outcast of society to a pioneer of the
feminist movement. She was one of the first women to express herself fully
without conformity to societies pressures. All of this happened because of her
book. This book was named The Awakening.
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