Examples of Status Offenses in the following topics:
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- Depending on the type and severity of the offense committed, it is possible for persons under 18 to be charged and tried as adults.
- Status offenses: offenses which are only classified as such because one is a minor, such as truancy, also dealt with by the juvenile courts.
- When considering these statistics, which state that Black and Latino teens are more likely to commit juvenile offenses, it is important to keep the following in mind: poverty is a large predictor of low parental monitoring, harsh parenting, and association with deviant peer groups, all of which are in turn associated with juvenile offending.
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- Slave codes were laws that were established in each state to define the status of slaves and the rights of their owners.
- They were
used to determine the status of slaves and the rights of their owners.
- Any slave who evaded capture for 20 days or more was to be publicly
whipped for the first offense; to be branded with the letter "R" on the right cheek for
the second offense; to lose one ear if absent for 30 days for the third offense;
and to be castrated for the fourth offense.
- Slaves were kept tightly in control through the establishment of slave codes, or laws dictating their status and rights.
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- Crimes were punished harshly during the Middle Ages with torture and executions common place for even the smallest of offenses.
- Medieval and early modern European courts used torture, depending on the crime of the accused and his or her social status.
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- After the British defeat at Saratoga in October 1777, Parliament repealed offensive measures, such as the Tea Act and the Massachusetts Government Act, and sent a commission to seek a negotiated settlement with the Continental Congress.
- The commission was empowered to offer the colonies the semblance of self-rule, or what later became Commonwealth status.
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- This can include nonviolent and less often violent activities which target persons, groups, or property deemed offensive to the direct action participants.
- In general, conscientious objector status is only considered in the context of military conscription and is not applicable to volunteer military forces.
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- Status inconsistency occurs when an individual's social positions are varied and these variations influence his or her overall social status.
- Status inconsistency is a situation where an individual's social positions have both positive and negative influences on his or her social status.
- For example, a teacher may have a positive societal image (respect, prestige, etc.), which increases her status but she may earn little money, which simultaneously decreases her status.
- Sociologists investigate issues of status inconsistency in order to better understand status systems and stratification, and because some sociologists believe that positions of status inconsistency might have strong effects on people's behavior.
- Gerhard Lenski originally predicted that people suffering from status inconsistency would favor political actions and parties directed against higher status groups.
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- While debated, the percentage of prison inmates who have been wrongly convicted of crimes is estimated to be somewhere between less than 1% all the way up to 9%, which could mean hundreds of thousands of prison inmates are actually innocent.The figure to the right breaks down the correctional system population by the status of individuals in the correctional system, including:
- The U.S. has a relatively high recidivism rate (recidivism refers to the frequency of repeat offenses).
- One factor that contributes to the high recidivism rates is the social stigma that accompanies having been convicted of a felony in the US. van Olphen et al. (2009)[12] found that individuals convicted of drug offenses were very likely to be reincarcerated, largely due to punitive punishments that accompanied their "convicted felon" stigma.
- A relatively recent innovation in criminal justice that has been shown to moderately reduce recidivism rates is "drug courts," or alternative sentencing systems that mandate treatment and therapy rather than jail time for drug offenses.
- The discriminatory prosecution of African Americans for drug offenses is just one way in which the criminal justice system in the U.S. works against African American equality.
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- Posture can be used to determine an individual's degree of intention or involvement, the difference in status between interlocutors, and the level of fondness a person has for the other communicator, depending on body "openness. "
- For example, in the Western world, waving one's hand back and forth communicates "hello" or "goodbye. " Emblem gestures can vary by cultural space so widely that a common gesture in one context is offensive in another.
- The types of clothing an individual wears convey nonverbal clues about his or her personality, background, and financial status.
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- Social status refers to the relative rank or standing that an individual has in the eyes of others.
- There are two elements of social status—those attributes we are born with and those we achieve.
- Status differences can create a bias against those with the perceived lower status.
- Outsider status can also be a challenge in communication.
- In the military and other organizations, the status of members affects communication.
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- Thus, Europe was
divided into two warring camps: the Allies, based on the Triple Entente of the
United Kingdom, France and Russia, and the Central Powers, based on the Triple
Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; although, as Austria-Hungary
had initiated the offensive, Italy did not immediately enter the war.
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alliances both reorganized – Italy later fought for the Allies – and expanded
as more nations entered the conflict, either through treaties with neighboring
powers such as Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, or due to their status as
colonies of the various European powers.