Sentences with phrase «adults commit acts»
I believe that when adults commit acts of violence or serious harm to other people, that is what we need to be spending our resources on.
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According to research, those with mental illness — about 18 percent of adults, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation — are no more likely to commit violent acts.
However, those stories often focused on unsavory acts that these once - innocent children either had committed or were committing as adults.
Sexual offenses, including indecent exposure; promoting, procuring, compelling, soliciting, or engaging in prostitution; corrupting minors (sexual relations with children); molesting, voyeurism; committing sex acts in public; incest; rape; sexual assault; sexual battery or sexual abuse; but excluding sodomy between consenting adults.
«I got to see first - hand the kinds of tools and services available to kids who have committed acts that if they had been committed by an adult, would be considered a crime.»
Their new proposal, known as the REDEEM Act, would allow adults to seal non-violent criminal records, encourage states to increase the age of criminal responsibility to 18, and create automatic expungement of non-violent crimes committed by kids before they turn 15.
He has experience in bringing judicial review claims against local authorities and other public bodies and is committed to acting for extremely vulnerable children or adult clients with specialist needs.
Crown seeks adult sentence for Quebec teen charged with attempting to commit acts of terrorism, Canadian Press
Moffitt's distinctive contribution is to show that only a small group of the adolescents who commit antisocial acts have consistently engaged in such acts during their childhood and continue to do so during their adult life.
Although the cognitive functioning of most adolescents approaches that of adults, the real - world circumstances under which they make decisions about whether to commit criminal acts are often shaped by emotional arousal and group pressure.
The items included exposure to abuse, violent acts, crimes, and acts that would be considered crimes if committed among adults, though in some cases not considered criminal when occurring among children (eg, hitting by peers or siblings).