Since the 1980s, several U.S. states have embraced an unusual method of dealing with juvenile criminals. In those states, offenders under the age of 18 can be sentenced to serve time in special “boot camps” instead of traditional detention facilities. However, those camps have become highly controversial; while some observers praise them for instilling good ...
Dialect in literature is a helpful tool that an author may use in order to make his or her characters well-rounded. By using a certain dialect for a character, the author is actually telling the reader more about that character’s background without directly stating anything. It is a subconscious detail that readers sometimes rarely notice ...
Edgefield Manor operated as Multnomah County’s farm for poor people before the days of social programs. It held elderly residents, disabled residents, poor residents, and the mentally challenged. Edgefield was well managed, with its crops feeding those who lived there and the excess sold at profit. In 1947 the site of several buildings and farmland ...
Shoplifting is a common crime that occurs when someone steals merchandise offered for sale from a retail store. When theft, petty or grand theft, from a commercial business occurs, the effects of shoplifting are harmful to everyone. Negative effects of shoplifting affect business owners, business customers, and teenagers, and society as a whole. The harmful ...
