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John Chris Theisen1153 sandpiper lane Brighton Colorado Brighton, Colorado United States of America
John Chris Theisen Chris Theisen. Christopher. John Theisen. He will steal every penny and make you move from town in fear. Brighton, Colorado
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He told me about his sites that he has that he sells books and contract tips to parents where he does not explain in full detail about his interactions with children that he has been under a investigation for using too much force during a restraint with a child. Including is own liason in his divorce hearing mentioned to the judge that his website where over spoken and he was miss leading his customers. Which because of his anger and the liason comments he was able to have his children living with him when the mother moved to Colorado springs full time. He then wrote a angry very hateful email to the liaison because he was angry she didn't say what he felt he deserved and he didn't feel he should have to pay her.
He also told me about a girl he dated for a few months that he showed up to her house so drunk and that he thought she was cheating on him. Got into a big fight and she said he had hit her and convinced the police officer that she was lying and he had done nothing wrong which he was so drunk that he couldn't drive anywhere so they took him to the truck atop to get something to eat and wait until morning to sober up. Which then he started calling and emailing all of her family and friends but didn't come in physical contact with her even though he did but used different phones and she didn't know it was him. But because he made sure that his lawyer kept asking all the witnesses at the restraining order hearing if he had cone into contact with her she and they all said no. Which she had told me that he had just called and scared her mom so bad with his treats that she went to get a restraining order they denied her because he had not physically hurt her since the night she broke up with him. I was able to find this girl because he told me he put he on this exact site trying to ruin her life. Telling everyone to help him find her because she was pregnant with his child. After speaking to her about this site and the other places he put her on she quickly moved and has a lawyer suing him for harassment.
As well as he sells sports signs on craigslist for more then what he buys them from a ex marine that owns a mechanic shop and hand carves these signs and Chris buys them from him and up charges and gives nothing more to the maker.
There are so many things more and I know there will be more women coming forth and telling you the same. But this man is a thief and liar and very dangerous if you ever make him angry. Please run the other way if you ever here the name Chris Theisen. If you ever make him mad or become worried or feared don't resist to call the cops at all. Trust me he is sly and you will need ever possible proof you can to make this man leave you alone.
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Safe At Home USA, Pennies From Heaven485 Church Road Albany, New York U.S.A.
Safe At Home USA, Pennies From Heaven ripoff holds money in an account, then refuses to give back-dishonest Ripoff Albany New York
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However, when you want to withdraw your money, he tells you, he will either bring it to you, or he sent it in the mail.
It's been about two months now, that I have been trying to get what's left of my so-called account. And he wont answer the phone, or tries to diguise voice.
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I'm just reading the very promising report on the future of public services written as part of the University of Birmingham Policy Commissions. "When Tomorrow Comes" began life with this discussion on Big Society at the Conservative Party Conference last year.
Now published the work describes a world very close to my heart, active engaged citizens using their networks and communications skills to help shape or lead public policy and public services. It also, though, identifies qualities we will need from public servants:
Key new roles include: storyteller, communicating stories of how new worlds of local public support might be envisioned in the absence of existing blueprints; weaver, making creative use of exisiting resources to generate something new and useful for service users and citizens; architect, constructing coherent local systems of public support from the myriad of public, private, third sector and other resources; and navigator, guiding citizens and service users around the range of possibilities that migth be available in a system of Local Public Support.
First of all these are not new roles – they already exist to a certain degree. We spent the best part of a year working with neighbourhood managers in Birmingham helping them with the tools and the skills to be storytellers, weaver's and navigators. We do the same with the citizens they work alongside, not least through social media surgeries. Likewise we're working with the Wolverhampton Strategic Partnership to help them advance their wonderful community empowerment learning programme, which helps public servants and citizens work together to be better weaver's architects and navigators. We do similar work with housing associations – who value the connecting and empowering skills in their staff
Appreciating these qualities can sometimes feel like a tricky message to get across. I remember a fascinating afternoon on The Hague with Tessy Britton and Maurice Specht. Both of us were talking to senior officials in central government in Holland about the impact of potent networks, self organising citizens and militant optimism on how will will govern ourselves. "What should we do?"- they asked. Learn to get out of the way, perhaps offer very lightweight support I urged them. Invest in the connectors was Tessy's advice. People like the initiative brokers we met later that week.
To late?
My fear is that these skills are not being truly valued now. The neighbourhood manager role has gone in Birmingham and in the process the council has lost some remarkable people who's passion for connecting ideas and people made government much more accessible and I'm certain more efficient.
Other's who are connected nationally regionally and locally are being pushed back into more definable jobs, turned back into box tickers in pre-ordained processes. These latter jobs are the ones we can eventually automate and prescribe. So as funding dries up for the jobs best done by connectors – please local government management, make sure you find ways of keeping them in fruitful work and onside – because you will be needing them.
I absolutely agree with your analysis. The importance of "connectors" and civic entrepeneurship, and the people who are skilled and experienced in such areas, is often misunderstood and undervalued by many within local government .
The need for such neighbourhood based work is needed more than ever now,particularly in light of the current economic climate affecting citizens and councils alike and the recent community tensions around the country – to help facilitate and enable community resilience and build up trust, mutual respect and develop a more mature relationship between communities and local government, moving away from the parent child model that has been prevalent for so long. Officers must engage in good honest robust conversations, even if it feels a bit uncomfortable, and develop a more relationship based rather than transactional way of working.
People need to be patient and be in it for the long game – but the benefits are huge and the valuing worth of communities and its community organisations can only add value and strength to local government aspirations.. I'd say that was "win win" in my book
Simple and important points Nick. One of the issues here, I think, is that there is too much demand for certainty, too much need to tie down outcomes/impacts before they happen, and too little acceptance that the connectors may not be able to say exactly what they're going to achieve beforehand, with whom. Connections and relationships, in two other pieces of work I've been doing, one with Christian Aid, one with English voluntary sector infrastructure, have emerged positivly as an end as well as a means – but in both cases in the face of storng resistance
I agree – they can be regarded as an end in their own right as long as the funders of the process appreciate that the benefit may come a long time later and in unexpected ways. Business people understand the value of long term relationships and trust in networks.
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This doesn't seem like a non-event to me!Is the market perception of the issuing of 6.5%preferred J's not threatening to D and F preferred shareholders? That these two preferreds will not be called for some time?The F's, whose share price decreased a small amount today, was still trading at a comfortable premium above par. It had been trading and holding closer to 26 more recently.I would have thought this would have traded closer to par. Any reason why buyers are willing to pay a premium knowing that the current trading price (25.45), if held for the next div, and called in after the div, will be a net wash in terms of a gain? (div around 47 cents per quarter for the F)?And why would anyone want to buy the preferred J at a yield of 6.5%, when the common stock has been (and expected to remain) strong and yielding only slighly less than the J preferred?
Replaced my 2000 shares of the soon to be called Preferred D and F with the new HCN-PJ today with 4000 shares. Best fixed income producer that I can see coming out right now. Not much else out there for newly issued preferreds that is as stable as this company.
Couldn't find a way to delete the recently posted message on the preferred J. I just read where the F will be redeemed in April, and the process explains why the preferred is currently trading above par.I still don't know why someone would find the preferred J more attractive than buying the common at this point.
I also own the regular stock and I'm happy with the 5.50% dividend with an opportunity for capital growth but every morning when I click on Headline news I never know what I will encounter that will effect the price of the stock. Owning the prferred is what I call a newsproof stock-- 6.5% is a nice chunk of change in this economy and with basically no risk.


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What Does Alzheimer's Do to the Brain?
Damage to Brain Structure and Function
Damage to Brain Structure and Function
Alzheimer's disease affects five million people in the U.S., according to the Alzheimer's Association. The progressive disease disrupts memory and thinking, impairing and eventually killing brain cells. This impairment can lead to symptoms like forgetfulness, having difficulty with time, language problems, or an inability to recognize loved ones.
Read more to learn about the changes in brain structure, function, and chemistry that result from Alzheimer's disease.
Plaque Forms
Plaque Forms
In Alzheimer's disease, a protein called beta-amyloid shows up in irregular clumps or clusters in the brain. This protein comes from a precursor protein found in a fatty membrane that covers nerve cells.
The clumps of beta-amyloid fragments stick together to form plaque. These sticky clusters interrupt signals between synapses. Synapses are the spaces between nerve cells where information passes from one cell to another.
Cause or Effect?
Cause or Effect?
Scientists are still not certain whether beta-amyloid plaque causes Alzheimer's disease, or whether the irregular clusters in the brain result from the disease process. Investigators are also still sorting out whether clumped or unclumped versions of beta-amyloid cause Alzheimer's.
Researchers do know that mutations in APP, the precursor protein that forms beta-amyloid plaque, causes early-onset Alzheimer's, which is rare.
Tangles and Cell Death
Tangles and Cell Death
In normal brain tissue, a protein called tau stabilizes microtubules. Microtubules are key parts of cell structure. In a diseased brain, these protein strands, or threads, become tangled. As a result, the orderly brain system of transporting cell nutrients along parallel structures—sometimes compared to railroad tracks—falls apart. Without critical nutrients, the brain cells die.
Connections Lost
Connections Lost
Memory and thinking depend on transmission of signals among 100 billion neurons in the brain. Alzheimer's interferes with cell signal transmission, as well as the activity of brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. The scrambled chemistry produces flawed signaling, so the brain's messages are lost. This impacts the ability to learn, remember, and communicate.
Brain Inflammation
Brain Inflammation
Microglia are a type of cell that initiates immune response in the brain and spinal cord. When Alzheimer's disease is present, microglia interpret the beta-amyloid plaque as cell injury. The microglia go into overdrive, stimulating excess inflammation that further damages brain cells. Some Alzheimer's research currently focuses on how this inflammatory response can be reduced or controlled.
The Brain Shrinks
The Brain Shrinks
In advanced Alzheimer's, the surface layer that covers the cerebrum, the largest part of the brain, withers and shrinks. This damage to the cortex plays havoc with the normal ability to plan ahead, recall, and concentrate.
Alzheimer's disease also affects the hippocampus. This part of the brain plays an important role in memory. Alzheimer's disease causes the hippocampus to shrivel, which harms the brain's ability to create new memories.
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Unfortunately, there is currently no cure for Alzheimer's disease, and its brain damaging progress can't be stopped. However, certain treatments, such as behavioral therapy and medication, can help ease the symptoms of the disease.
Some medications may help to ease symptoms of confusion and memory loss. These include cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine, which are sometimes used together.
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As I mentioned before, that line in St. Paul's letter to the Thessalonians is quoted quite often. In fact, recently, one of our congregational leaders used it as a justification for cutting food stamps -- "People who don't work should not eat; cut the stamps" -- even though more than half the people on food stamps are children.
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I'm sure we remember that we have been making this journey with Jerusalem over these past weeks, throughout the summer and now through the fall, and Jesus has been trying to show us what happens in a dramatic way to Zacchaeus in today's Gospel. Jesus has been calling us to conversion. At the very beginning of his public life in Mark's Gospel, Jesus says, "The reign of God is at hand. Change your lives." In other words, be converted -- change -- and today, we have a very dramatic example of such a conversion.
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If we listen carefully to these readings, they are very challenging to us, especially when we live in a culture that so holds up riches as the goal of our life very often. But it's really, in a way, quite unusual how these Scriptures are so timely because of what is happening in our world at this very moment. We live in a period of time in our country where what Amos was picturing in that first lesson seems literally true.
When we reflect on the Scripture lessons at a holy Eucharist like this, it's always important to put our reflections within the context of our everyday life -- what's going on in our lives, what's going on in the world around us -- and then we draw from the Scriptures to see how it applies to our life as it is right now in these circumstances. This morning, I think it's very providential, almost, that we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the high school class of St. Alphonsus.


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What does it mean to be Transgender?
Transgender people are those whose appearance, behaviors, or personal characteristics differ from stereotypes about how men and women are supposed to be. The group includes crossdressers, transsexuals (both male to female - MtF and female to male - FtM), and can include intersex people (individuals who were born with ambiguous genitals, and raised one gender which later conflicts with their internal self).
Transgender people often suffer both internal confusion and suffering and prejudice or violence from others. Transgender people face enormous discrimination in society - from immediate family, neighbors, and co-workers. The pressures to conform to gender stereotypes are so overwhelming that many transsexuals attempt suicide before seeking treatment. Unfortunately, far too many fail by succumbing to suicide while many other individuals suffer their lives in seclusion and secrecy.
Fortunately, the Transgender movement and support has increased drastically. Individuals who identify themselves as trans are leading very happy lives. There is now a lot of support and services to help individuals who are transitioning or would like to explorer their internal sense. Not all trans individuals become performers and not all performers are trans-identified.
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It is not easy to discover that you are transgender. Our society makes it very clear what it thinks of transgender people. We all hear the terrible jokes, the hurtful stereotypes and the wrong ideas that circulate about transgender people. People tend to hate or fear what they do not understand. It is no wonder that you might choose to hide your feelings from others. You might even be tempted to hide them from yourself.
You may wonder if you are normal. Perhaps you worry about people finding out about you. Maybe you avoid other people because of what people will think. Working this hard to conceal your thoughts and feelings is called being in the closet. It is a painful and lonely place to be, even if you stay there in order to survive.
It takes a lot of energy to deny your feelings, and it can be costly. You may have tried using alcohol or other drugs to numb yourself against these thoughts. You may have considered suicide. If so, please contact the BGSU's Counseling Center at 419-372-2081 and they are open Monday & Thursday 8:00 am-7:00 pm and Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm.
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More and more transgender individuals are learning to feel better about themselves. As you start to listen to your deepest feelings and learn more about what it means to be transgender you will begin to be comfortable with your gender identity. This is the process called coming out.
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Some transgender individuals are able to come out to their families. You need to decide whether or not to tell your family, and to choose the right time. Lots of people, including parents, simply do not understand transgender people and are difficult to come out to. In the beginning, be cautious about whom you tell.
But it is crucial to be honest with yourself. Just as self-denial costs you, coming out pays off. Most people who accept their gender identify say they feel calmer, happier, and more confident.
Why should the general lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community care about transgender issues?
The reason this is so important to the LGB community is that someone who is viewed as being gender different, regardless whether they identify as transgender or not, is often subject to the exact same oppression, the same violence as those of us who do identify as being transgender. Being perceived as gender different is the leading reason given for "gay-bashing."
Gender rights are ultimately human rights. Each of us is assigned a gender role at birth that we are expected to conform to, regardless of how we might feel or view ourselves as being. As a most basic human right, each of us should be free to express our gender as we wish.
Transgender (ed) / Trans: An umbrella term encompassing other terms defined below. It refers to anyone who is "crossing the male-female dichotomy" in any way. Trans is a more modern term used as a synonym for transgender.
Sex: Sex is the physiological makeup of a human being, referred to as their biological or natal sex. Sex is usually thought of in a bipolar way, dividing the world into males and females. In reality, sex is a complex relationship of genetic, hormonal, morphological, biochemical and anatomical determinates that impact the physiology of the body and the sexual differentiation of the brain. Although everyone is assigned a sex at birth, approximately 2% of the population are intersex and do not easily fit into a dimorphic division of two sexes that are "opposite."
Gender: Gender is a social construct that divides people into "natural" categories of men and women that are assumed to derive from their physiological male and female bodies. Gender attributes vary from culture to culture, and are arbitrarily imposed, denying individuality. Most people's gender identity is congruent with their assigned sex, but many people experience their gender identity to be discordant with their natal sex. A person's self concept of their gender (regardless of their biological sex) is called their gender identity.
Gender Role: Gender role is the expression of masculinity and femininity and has often been referred to as "sex roles." Gender roles are thought to be a reflection of one's gender identity and are socially dictated and reinforced. Gender roles are how gender is enacted or "performed" (consciously or unconsciously) and may or may not be related to gender identity or natal sex.
Transsexual: A person who wishes and seriously acts upon the sense of having the wrong gender body, often-- though not always--culminating in sexual reassignment surgery. Pre-operative transsexuals include those not yet undergoing surgery; post-operative transsexuals are those who have received surgery; non-operative transsexuals are those who, for whatever reason, cannot or choose not to have surgery.
NOTE ON PRONOUNS: All transsexuals are referred to by the pronouns of the gender they see themselves as being, whether they are pre-operative, non-operative, or post-operative. If in doubt, ask the individual.
Female to Male (FtM)/Male to Female (MtF): These terms are widely used in the trans community to define the direction of crossdress or transsexuality. There are harsh critics of these terms due to the assumption of duality.
Sexual Reassignment Surgery (Sex Change): The term used for the set of surgeries to alter the gender of an individual. For male-to-female transsexuals, it usually involves amputation of testicles and most of the penis, inversion of the penis skin into a vagina, and optional breast implants, tracheal shaves, and labiaplasty. For female-to-male transsexuals, it involves mastectomy, hysterectomy, and optional attempts at creating a penis and scrotum. Preparatory and follow-up hormonal treatment is almost always given, and M-to-Fs often undergo long, expensive, painful electrolysis.
Transition: This is the process of changing gender role, and also the time period in which the change occurs. The time period starts, more or less, with the decision to change gender, and ends with surgery. The term is also used in the sense of an event, usually when a person begins working in the new gender role.
Androgynous/Androgyn: Between genders or without gender.
Intersex: The term preferred by people born with both female and male characteristics; the more commonly used term in history is hermaphrodite. Children born with obvious intersexed characteristics are often operated on as an infant to remove whichever characteristics the family or surgeon decides should disappear. This may or may not coincide with which gender the child considers him/herself to be. Although everyone is assigned a sex at birth, approximately 2% of the population is intersex and do not easily fit into a dimorphic division of two sexes that are "opposite."
Gender Dysphoria: Clinical literature on transsexualism once spoke of transsexuals having "gender confusion." The term now used is "gender dysphoria," a fancy way of saying "extreme discomfort." Transsexuals, once given an understanding and a vocabulary for who they are, are confused mostly by society's reluctance to give them validity. The best science we currently have indicates that biological gender dysphoria is caused by hormonal fluctuations at a crucial time in fetal development.
Cross-dressing: People who desire to dress and occasionally act as a member of the opposite sex, but do not consider themselves as being the opposite sex or even want to be.
Bigender: People who see themselves as possessing both genders: man and woman. Some may feel that one side or the other is stronger, but both sides are there.
Intergender : An identity which falls somewhere between the endpoints of man and woman. It assumes an acceptance of the construct of a Gender Continuum. Given such a continuum, man and woman become bounding constructs with an infinite number of gendered states in between. One identifies as neither a man nor a woman but as something separate and unique from either extreme.
Gender Continuum: Also called the Gender Spectrum. The construct that gender is not a binary system where there are only men and women, but a continuum or spectrum spanning from man to woman with an infinite number of gendered states in between. It is an attempt to account for the obvious variety and endless differences there are in how people gender themselves.
Drag Queens/Drag King: A term used to refer to gay men (usually) who dress in a feminine manner, often exaggeratedly so. If they do it on stage as well, they also are impersonators and the terms are sometimes interchangeable. The female form of this is the drag king. Most commonly found in bars, parties, and parades, as well on television.
Gender Bender: A term used to refer to anyone who acts outside the generally accepted norms of gender behavior, usually by the way she or he dresses, without care about "what people think."
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Information on this page was adapted from www.sexuality.org/l/incoming/trbasic.html .


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By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: November 21, 1999
PONTIAC, Mich.— TO look at a photograph of Nathaniel Abraham is to search for the face of a child. Nathaniel, 13, was convicted last week for planting himself on a hillside in this Detroit suburb, shooting at a stranger walking out of a convenience store and killing him -- a crime he committed at the age of 11.
His conviction for second-degree murder raises questions that go to the heart of what society would like childhood to be, and what society believes must be done when a child has acted like the worst sort of adult.
Nathaniel, like an increasing number of children across the country, was tried and convicted as an adult. So was Kip Kinkel, sentenced on Nov. 10 to life in prison without parole for killing his parents and two classmates in Springfield, Ore., when he was 15.
As state after state has lowered the age at which youths can be treated as legal adults, sentenced to long terms in adult prisons and even put to death for their crimes, Americans are caught between two contradictory impulses: to preserve childhood as a time of innocence and to deny that children who commit crimes are indeed children.
It is a common lament that children today grow up too fast, that society is conspiring to deprive them of the halcyon childhood they deserve. Children today watch television shows and movies saturated with sexual innuendo and violence. They wear clothes that are scaled-down copies of adult styles. They engage in sex younger, and for at least some of those children the rite of losing one's virginity is increasingly ho-hum.
Children are also spending less and less time with adults, and are more often influenced by peers. The result is less guidance on how to behave like a grown-up, even as there are more pressures to act like one.
Yet coupled with society's fear of prematurely lost innocence has been a growing terror of the violent crimes that youngsters -- boys in particular -- are capable of planning and carrying out. At least 38 people have been killed in a dozen school shootings since 1993, from West Paducah, Ky., to Littleton, Colo. In almost every case, boys have fired the shots. Such cases have captured the public's imagination, even though actual arrests of males under age 18 for violent crimes peaked at 151,074 in 1994 and have fallen 26 percent since then.
Fear of crime is trumping concern about foreshortened boyhood. Still, responding to a sharp rise in juvenile crime during the early 1990's, at least 44 states have adopted new laws since 1992 that allow more children to be tried as adults.
Many child development experts say this strategy ignores children's very immaturity. The answer to juvenile crime, they contend, is to provide more guidance and supervision for all boys, and more counseling for the emotionally troubled or mentally impaired, instead of more stringent penalties for boys who step out of line.
''The problem we're facing is boys are not being nurtured and cared for toward adulthood,'' said Michael W. Gurian, a family therapist in Spokane, Wash., who has written eight books on male development. ''They're not being taught to control their emotions, they're not being taught to be men.''
But this view, which typifies the main current of intellectual thought about children during the 20th century, seems to be yielding in the criminal justice system to an older way of thinking about children, one that views them as little adults.
The nation's first juvenile court was set up 100 years ago in Chicago to handle children's offenses discreetly and with an emphasis on rehabilitation. Before then, the few youths who committed serious crimes were often treated as small but errant adults and sent to prison.
Indeed, children were treated as adults in many ways throughout most of history. They were expected to work from an early age, toiling alongside their parents in mines and in sweatshops. The historian Philippe Aries has said children were not even recognized as distinct from adults until the 17th century. The romanticization of childhood as a time of innocence really took flight in Victorian England, along with laws restricting child labor. Then came the notion of a separate track for children in the criminal justice system.
The publicity attending what seems like an endless series of horrific incidents involving youngsters has contributed to the current willingness to return to the earlier time of treating children on a par with adults.
Yet the cases of Kip Kinkel and Nathaniel Abraham raise troubling questions because defense psychologists testified that the boys had emotional difficulties. Kip was said to have told doctors during his sentencing hearing that since the age of 12 he had heard voices ordering him to kill. Psychologists said Nathaniel had below-average intelligence and significant difficulties in controlling his emotions -- particularly anger.
Child development experts almost invariably agree that counseling and other intervention should begin early enough to prevent violent crimes. But opinions diverge on what to do once a child has committed murder -- particularly after having had many other contacts with police.
Police suspected Nathaniel in other criminal incidents during the nearly three years before the 1997 hillside shooting, though no charges were ever brought. Prosecutors say he has assaulted other youths at least twice while in custody awaiting his recent trial.
SOME experts maintain that prolonged confinement is not the answer. Aaron R. Kipnis, a clinical psychologist and the author of a new book, ''Angry Young Men: How Parents, Teachers, and Counselors Can Help Bad Boys Become Good Men'' (Jossey-Bass), said his own experience as a troubled youth had persuaded him that long prison sentences only produce hardened criminals.
''I was on the street, I sold drugs, I committed acts of prostitution, I committed petty thefts,'' Dr. Kipnis recalled. But he said he was able to avoid a life of crime because his sentences were short and because he received a small grant for college.
Children who receive long jail sentences do not have such an opportunity to rejoin society, he argues. ''With 10 years in prison in your youth, you have no education, no job skills, no social contacts,'' Dr. Kipnis said.
But Amitai Etzioni, a sociologist at George Washington University, contends that some children have such a predisposition for violence that society may not be able to run the risk of letting them go free.
''We have to accept there are some we are not going to be able to save,'' Mr. Etzioni said. ''I'd like to see a little society, a little community like Boys Town, where they can live their lives as normally as possible.''
Some experts worry about the legal system's growing emphasis on elaborate trials and harsh punishments for serious juvenile crimes, often at the expense of prosecuting less serious infractions. Children too easily learn that they can get away with breaking many laws, only to face long prison terms when they go too far.
Kay Hymowitz, the author of a new book, ''Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future and Ours'' (Free Press), contends that Nathaniel's case, in which several years of police contacts did not result in any judicial response, shows the system at its worst.
''We need to have children hearing adults say clearly and promptly, 'You can't do this,' '' she said, ''and the system is too cumbersome for that. Instead, they get the message that adults are indifferent, and that's the worst message you can send.''
Photos/Chart: ''Adult Crime, Adult Time'': As violent crimes committed by youths under 18 soared in the late 1980's, 44 states adopted new laws that enable more children to be tried as adults. That trend peaked in 1994, and juvenile arrests have actually dropped, despite several heavily publicized incidents. Each year in the past decade, between 5,000 and 6,000 children have been sent to adult prisons. Here is a profile of which children are treated as adults in the legal system, what kinds of crimes they committed and how treatment varies by state. Nathaniel Abraham, Michigan AGE CRIME WAS COMMITTED: 11 AGE CONVICTED: 13 CRIME: The fatal shooting of an 18-year-old stranger who was outside a convenience store in Pontiac, Mich., in October 1997. SENTENCE: Could receive a sentence of up to life in prison. STATE LAWS: Under a 1996 law, prosecutors may ask for permission to try any youth as an adult. Daphne Abdela, New York AGE CRIME WAS COMMITTED: 15 AGE CONVICTED: 16 CRIME: Disemboweling a 44-year-old man in Manhattan's Central Park in May 1997 SENTENCE: 39 months to 10 years in prison. STATE LAWS: Because she was 15 when crime was committed, she was protected from the full adult sentence, possibly the death penalty. Kip Kinkel, Oregon AGE CRIME WAS COMMITTED: 15 AGE CONVICTED: 17 CRIME: Fatally shooting and killing his parents, as well as two students at Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., in May 1998. SENTENCE: Life in prison without parole. STATE LAWS: Because he was 15 when the crimes were committed, he was not eligible for the death penalty. Donna Ratliff, Indiana AGE CRIME WAS COMMITTED: 14 AGE CONVICTED: 15 CRIME: Killing her mother and an older sister after setting her house on fire in November 1996. SENTENCE: 25 years in prison; transferred to a private treatment center for young people in 1999. STATE LAWS: Under new legislation, a child may be tried as an adult for a greater range of crimes. Crimes That Send Children to Adult Courts A profile of the kinds of crimes committed by children who were treated as adults in the legal system. 1987 TOTAL CASES: 6,800 AGAINST PEOPLE: Murder, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault 28% PROPERTY: Burglary, larceny-theft, auto theft, arson 55% DRUGS: Trafficking, possession 8% PUBLIC ORDER: Possession of weapons 7% 1992 TOTAL CASES: 10,300 AGAINST PEOPLE: Murder, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault 39% PROPERTY: Burglary, larceny-theft, auto theft, arson 41% DRUGS: Trafficking, possession 11% PUBLIC ORDER: Possession of weapons 8% 1996 TOTAL CASES: 10,000 AGAINST PEOPLE: Murder, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault 43% PROPERTY: Burglary, larceny-theft, auto theft, arson 37% DRUGS: Trafficking, possession 14% PUBLIC ORDER: Possession of weapons 6% [* Nearly 2 percent have received life sentences] Figures do not add to 100 because of rounding. Map/Chart shows the minimum age at which children could be treated as adults under the law in 1997. Nearly half the states have no specific minimum age. Map/Chart shows state by state breakdown of the numbers of children under 18 years of age who were committed to adult prisons in 1996. Their average term in adult prisons is nine years. (Sources: U.S. Justice Department; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)


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