Youth Violence is Directly Connected to Drug Abuse – Is There a Way to Solve Drugged Violence?
Drugs create violence. The youth violent crime rate in Canada has increased by 12 percent over the last decade. This is a cause of some concern. However, youth assault with a weapon shot up 40% and homicide, the killing of another human being, by youth devastated 41% more families, compared to 10 years ago. (StatCan.ca 2006)
Cocaine and other drug charges amongst youth hit 135% and 156% increases, while marijuana charges were 91% greater. (StatsCan.ca 2006)
Use Your Criminal Justice Degree To Help The Troubled Youth
So, you say you want to help kids stay on the straight and narrow path? What better way than to go to school and earn a degree in criminal justice! Although there are other paths to consider when working with juveniles, listed below are a few of the more popular alternatives to consider.
Just a few of the options are serving as a worker in a youth detention center or correctional facility, as a juvenile probation officer or counselor or as a crime prevention specialist. Each classification has its own unique function in the criminal justice arena.
Discipline in the Montessori Classroom
Freedom in the Montessori classroom is often misunderstood not only by the parents, but also by some teachers. What we need to remember is that from a Montessori point of view freedom is not the right to do what one wishes without thought or consideration for others. It also does not mean that the only way the child can be creative is to be allowed to do whatever he/she chooses without any consistent parameters and guidance from the adult in the room. For freedom to work creatively and constructively it has to function within the firm guidelines of discipline. Discipline does not mean being regimented and having to submit to the will of another. Freedom and discipline are two sides of the same coin.
Freedom is the ability to stop, think and make a choice to the exclusion of any other possible given choices. Discipline is making correct choices while respecting the environment, and the rights of others to function and also make choices. Yes, to facilitate growth and correct choice making the child needs to act and be given opportunities to make choices. However, this does not mean the teacher abdicates responsibility. On the contrary it puts greater responsibility on the teacher.
Planning an Alcohol Intervention?
If you have a friend or family member who is suffering from alcoholism, you are no doubt aware of the byproduct of the disease. You’ve probably witnessed the alcoholic isolate from friends and family, a decline in health, problems at work, depression and perhaps criminal issues. To make matters worse, alcoholism has been described as progressive, meaning that over time it gets worse. To put it a different way, where the alcoholic is presently at in his lifestyle and overall condition is as good as it gets for him. And for most alcoholics, that condition is dismal.
You may have tried to convince the alcoholic to get help. You’ve begged, pleaded and cried, all to no avail. Alcoholics are brilliant with their defense mechanisms, and will say and do most anything to get you off his back, end the conversation and resume his drinking in peace.
