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For fans of the acclaimed movie Stand and Deliver. After the death of her child, a grief-stricken psychotherapist, teacher, and writer volunteers as a poetry teacher at a residential treatment facility for “delinquent” girls. Here, their mutual support nourishes and enriches each other, though not without large quantities of drama and recalcitrance.
Learning to let go of grief and loss by writing poetry as therapy. Compelling, appealing, poignant...
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A. Egmont Hake's compelling biography concerns the life and exploits of Major-General Charles George Gordon (1833—1885), of the British army-who went by Chinese Gordon, among other nicknames. This is the story of a man whose one aim in life was to do his duty. Gordon was a legendary soldier, best remembered for his campaigns in China and northern Africa.
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Dr. Joseph J. Michaels has divided his 12 papers, published over an 18-year period, into four series:
The first series (four papers) deals with studies of so-called normal children (controls) and neuropsychiatric patients, presenting data and their analysis primarily from a statistical standpoint.
The second series (four papers) consists in the analysis and interpretation of data pertaining to enuresis in the reports of other authors on delinquent...
7) Judging Mohammed: Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice
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In October 2005, three weeks of rioting erupted in France following the accidental deaths of two French boys of North African ancestry. Killed while fleeing the police, these boys were deemed dangerous based largely on their immigrant origins. In France, disadvantaged children of immigrant and foreign ancestry represent the vast majority of formal suspects and have increasingly been portrayed as a threat to public safety and as the embodiment of the...
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In this funny and insightful memoir, Brian Caplan takes us on his journey from a reckless and self-centered juvenile delinquent to a respected and empathetic member of the legal profession. Brian recalls his early days of shockingly poor judgment and shares how he learned from his experiences to make the seemingly insurmountable leap from first being, arrested at age twelve, to today representing some of the bigger names in the entertainment industry...
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In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults. Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted fundamentally different treatment, reformers founded the nation's first juvenile court in Chicago in 1899. Yet amid an influx of new African American arrivals to the city during the Great Migration, notions of inherent childhood innocence and juvenile justice were...
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Ranma 1/2 volume 11
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When the entire Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics Club is injured before their match with another school, the members ask Akane to step in.
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Ranma 1/2 volume 11
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When the entire Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics Club is injured before their match with another school, the members ask Akane to step in.
14) Juvenile justice and delinquency prevention ... state plan: System description and problem analysis
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19uu
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