Word: adult
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Easing into his chair underneath the portrait of an 18th century Puritan minister, Epps says the two and a half days he now spends on campus each week keep him connected to the place to which he has devoted much of his adult life...
From a nationwide telephone poll of 1,257 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Feb. 2-3 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error...
...Instead, adult prisons tend to brutalize juveniles. They are eight times more likely to commit suicide and five times more likely to be sexually abused than offenders held in juvenile detention. "Once they get out, they tend to commit more crimes and more violent crimes," says Jenni Gainsborough, a spokeswoman for the Sentencing Project, a reform group in Washington. The system, in essence, is training career criminals. And it's doing its worst work among minorities...
There, in a nutshell, is what happens more and more often in the juvenile-court system. Minority youths arrested on violent felony charges in California are more than twice as likely as their white counterparts to be transferred out of the juvenile-justice system and tried as adults, according to a study released last week by the Justice Policy Institute, a research center in San Francisco. Once they are in adult courts, young black offenders are 18 times more likely to be jailed--and Hispanics seven times more likely--than are young white offenders. "Discrimination against kids of color accumulates...
...FAMILIES SHOW THEIR AGE The early environment of kids and its effects on their development have been linked to many adult ailments like heart disease and diabetes--and now perhaps to Alzheimer's disease. A study in the journal Neurology has found that seniors born into families with five or more siblings had a 39% greater risk of developing Alzheimer's than those born into smaller families. Because bigger families often had lower income and education than smaller ones, the researchers believe that for some kids these disadvantages may have impaired brain development in a way that made their brains...