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The six sections that divide this book discuss your rights in areas such as school, home, and work. More than forty chapters contain a spectrum of topics ranging from dress codes and curfews to drug abuse and discrimination. In addition, a state-by-state legal guide provides a quick reference of individual state laws regarding such concerns as your driver’s license, age of majority, marriage, and child labor law.

Included within the text are Teen Tip and Parent Tip boxes that highlight specific suggestions from the author. An extraordinary list of organizations, websites, and agencies identify valuable sources of additional information. Hotlines are listed in the referencesection to provide quick help in an emergency situation.

While written specifically for teens, this book can also serve as an outstanding guide for adults who are seeking to understand the rights and responsibilities that teenagers have in today’s society.

More than forty chapters cover a spectrum of topics:
- freedom of expression
- school attendance and discipline
- discrimination
- becoming a legal adult
- parents' divorce
- insurance
- assault
- alcohol, tobacco, drugs, weapons
- eating disorders
- birth control
- abortion
- workplace issues
- owning property
- the court system ... Read more

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You are a forensic scientist investigating a robbery at a high school.Will conventional fingerprinting help you solve the crime?Or will you rely on more exotic techniques like DNA analysis and forensic dentistry to catch your thief? ... Read more

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Teens who learn how to advocate for themselves and who then act are not only taking steps to right whatever wrong they have been facing, they are also preparing themselves for successful adult life. Self-Advocacy: The Ultimate Teen Guide offers the tools and skills teens needto help themselves succeed when they decide to challenge the status quo. ... Read more

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Statistics consistently show that upon arrest, 85% of teens waive their Miranda rights. Combined with the alarming problem of teen false confessions, parents, grandparents, and mentors of teens have good cause for concern. Written by an experienced criminal defense attorney, McKenzie's Warning assures that your teen will have the correct attitude, be prepared, and know how to obtain assistance should they encounter the legal system (and chances are growing that they will!). Within these pages, the Miranda warning is simplified, the legal system de-mystified, and you are instructed on how to empower your teens. For those who care about teens, this basic legal manual is a valuable resource in our post-911 world. ... Read more

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Lisa Brown
I highly recommend this book to all parents/grandparents and teens.It is very interesting to hear the facts from the "horse's mouth."The book is easy to understand, has great examples and has valuable information... so many of us THINK we know what the law is or how to deal with it.People do tend to think that "that can't happen to me or my family,"- think again!Just like an accident- things just HAPPEN.I know this author personally and highly respect his work in this book and at his at his law firm.I work in this field and learned more upon reading this. Hoping to see more writings in the future! Would also like to see this book passed through our local school systems- there is a lot to life, especially with the unexpected.Kudos, Mr. McKenzie! ... Read more

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A Relevant, Useful Read for Teachers, Students, and Parents
This book is important reading for anyone who works with kids today.It is so relevant to what is happening with students today.Judge Jacobs thorough research helps teens understand the consequences and repercussions of cyberbullying.The examples of actual cases of kids who were victims and the kids who were bullies gives a clear picture of how lives are ruined and future hopes shattered. I loved the way each chapter presents the case and then asks, how would you decide this case, this would be great to use in a classroom discussion to get students really thinking about this behavior and its consequences.I think many teachers would find this book a valuable resource for teaching and use in the classroom.I highly recommend Teen Cyberbullying for all teachers, students,and parents, to use as a guide in helping to prevent cyberbullying and its tragic consequences.

A must read for teens!
This book is a must read for all teens and their parents. It's written by an expert in this field and a former juvenile court judge in AZ. It is an awesome insight to what happens when you do things on the Internet and push that send button. There is no going back once that is done and Judge Jacobs explores court cases of teens and what their consequences were! Should be required reading for teens in every school!

Cyberbullying Expertly Explained
I have some interest in this cyberbullying because I write about education-related issues, but also because I have been trying to gain a better understanding of social networking. Judge Jacob's book explains the ramifications of teen cyberbullying in a very readable format. While Judge Jacobs apparently served on the bench for a long time, he has written a book that is not overly drowned in legalese.

With respect to cyberspace, issues of free speech may extend off-campus to social networking tools and Web sites. This book mentions several examples including cases of derogatory and misleading information about teachers and students to threats to pull "another Columbine" to tamer incidents such as comments that would appear on student evaluations of teachers at the college level.

The major contention from reading the case examples and the rulings is the level of damage or disruption caused by the activity. In some cases, as you will read, the school district won, and expelled offenders. However, in others, the student won, and school districts were forced to pay the student's legal fees. School districts are aptly warned about improper punishments, too.

After reading this book, I read about a cyberbullying case on the editorial page of the Rutgers Daily Targum, the main campusdaily newspaper, where a high school suspended a student who had posted disparaging comments about a teacher--they were on the line of "she's the worst teacher I ever had." The school also reacted by removing the student from honors and advanced placement classes, which seems excessive. In this case the student had her day in court and won.

I recommend this book to school officials as well as parents who are concerned about their son's or daughter's use of the Internet. It will also provide sufficient warning to potential cyberbullies.

Teen Cyberbullying Investigated
Judge Jacobs explores the most contemporary issues of our everyday lives; Texting, Sexting, the Internet and Social Networking sites.
Compelling yet easy to read, the Judge breaks it down for parents, teens and educators to provide a format for communications."Think Before You Click".Judge Jacobs examines actual court cases thanks to the brave kids and families who allowed their stories to be told.
This is an important subject.Read the book and save a life.

Teen Cyberbullying Investigated
This book is a great resource for schools that are
taking an active role in bully prevention. I think
all faculty should read it and discuss an action plan
to take to prevent bullying of all kinds. This resource
along with Bullycide in America would be an excellent
kick off to an anti-bully movement. Great Resource!
I highly recommend it!

Susan Bowman, Ed.S., LPC ... Read more

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The question of whether a young woman should be allowed to terminate a pregnancy without her parents' knowledge has been one of the most contentious issues of the post Roe v. Wade era. Parental involvement laws reach to the core of the parent-teen relationship in the highly contested realm of adolescent sexuality. This is the first book to examine in thorough detail the decision-making experiences of teens considering abortion. Shoshanna Ehrlich evaluates the Supreme Court's efforts to reconcile the historically based understanding of teens as dependent persons in need of protection with a more contemporary understanding of them as autonomous individuals with adult-like claims to constitutional recognition.

Arriving at a compromise, the Court has made clear that, like adult women, teens have a protected right of choice, but that states may impose a parental involvement requirement. However, so that parents are not vested with veto power over their daughters' decisions, young women must be allowed to seek a waiver of the requirement. Integrating a wealth of social science literature, including in-depth interviews with 26 young women from Massachusetts who obtained court authorization for an abortion, the book raises important questions about the logic of a legal approach that requires young women to involve adults when they seek to terminate a pregnancy, but that allows them to make a decision to become mothers on their own.

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Explains, in question and answer format, legal rights of minors and their duties and responsibilities under the law regarding parents, trouble at home, school, jobs, and money. ... Read more

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A must-have for those who own the first edition, this revised and updated edition, provides teenagers with the most current answers to their legal questions. The user-friendly question and answer format, familiar to users of the first edition, gives teenagers important and relevant information on a variety of topics of interest to them including driving a car, parental authority, school authority, sexual issues, and many more. New material not only expands on topics covered in the first volume to reflect new legislation, but also includes hot new topics such as legal issues involved with Internet use and the legality of teaching creation science in school. ... Read more

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Its about time...
that someone wrote an outstanding book that helps both teenagers andparents deal with the law.This has been a great aid in parenting becausenow I have something to back me up that is simple, easy to read andunderstand.

The best book for teens
I have read the bood teen legal rights and it has helped me alot.I definatley feel that there should be more books like that out there.The book answered most if not all of my questions concerning my school and thelaws that are relavent.She is a great person for writing such a book andI recommed it to anyone who is confused on what there rights really are. ... Read more

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Examines trends in teenage violence and discusses possible ways of preventing it. ... Read more

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The world is filled with people, vehicles, and other objects that are constantly in motion. After studying the force of gravity in the late 1600s, English scientist Isaac Newton developed three laws of motion that described an objects inertia and friction. His third law was the basis for the well-known phrase ""for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."" Whether you are walking to school, playing a sport, or riding a roller coaster, these laws of motion govern the way we live. ... Read more

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Chronicles the history of the death penalty in America, with an emphasis on its application to teenagers. ... Read more