Juvie - a career death sentence

[Theo520]

I work in a Juvie diversion program, mostly for kids arrested on low-level Domestic Violence charges within their family.

Following the recent news, I find it very sad that they can never recover from their teen mistake and seek a position of respect and responsibility. Right now it’s in Govt but I expect soon it will also spread to positions in private industry as well.

I liked the way we were before, where we judged people on their patterns of behavior with the focus on recent behavior. This allowed people to recover and redeem themselves given time and effort.

 

[ucfengr]

In the current case, Kavanaugh hasn’t been even formally charged or convicted of anything. It appears his only mistake was to be a nominated to the Supreme Court while possibly thinking Roe v Wade was incorrectly decided.

 

[dvdjs]

Following the recent news, I find it very sad that they can never recover from their teen mistake and seek a position of respect and responsibility

You may be talking about Ellison, but following @ucfengr, I am not sure that that conclusions follows from the Kavanaugh situation.

The people that you have worked with have had their cases adjudicated, have, in some way, paid their debt to society, and, hypothetically, have led good lives after that point. In the Kavanaugh case, there facts have not bee investigated yet, there has been no adjudication. That should be not be left open, but resolved before - and not after - his appointment.

 

[Theo520]

The people that you have worked with have had their cases adjudicated, have, in some way, paid their debt to society, and, hypothetically, have led good lives after that point. In the Kavanaugh case, there facts have not bee investigated yet, there has been no adjudication. That should be not be left open, but resolved before - and not after - his appointment.

Nope, this is a diversion program so the idea is to avoid formal charges. They pay no debt to society. And the teens I see are just the tip of the iceberg. So many other teens make grave errors in perfect hindsight.

They were imperfect teens and can never recover from their mistakes if people will still judge them on it 40 yrs after the misdemeanor level incidents.

Why don’t we focus on patterns of behavior instead of isolated misdemeanor incidents, from decades past?

To be honest, I didn’t like how Al Franken was treated, but at least his actions were multiple (pattern) and committed with some recency.

 

[Theo520]

Booker's push for Kavanaugh vote delay called out over his 1992 column detailing teenage groping

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is facing accusations of hypocrisy over his calls to delay the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid sexual misconduct allegations, as he once admitted groping a friend without her consent in high school.

www.foxnews.com

Turns out Booker may have groped as a teen,
obviously unfit for office as an adult
all must be purged.