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IELTS vocabulary hello there in today's
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tutorial we are diving into the specific
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topic of juvenile crime and
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Society now why do I keep going off on
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these very Niche very specific topics
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well the idea is is that a lot of
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students suffer from their mind going
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blank and it's usually when they hit
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quite unique topics such
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as pollution in the ocean microplastics
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mobile phone use juvenile crime and
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Society so in this tutorial we're going
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to look at the vocabulary you need to
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get around a band seven or higher we're
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also going to look at various
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positions and the positions are
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necessary for you to build to
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write an effective task to essay because
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first comes ideas and then from those
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ideas you've got to form them into
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positions and then from positions you've
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got to develop them into cohesive
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arguments delivered in a coherent
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paragraph and that's partly what we're
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going to do today as well as looking at
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modal verbs for specul ation and
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deduction so it's quite a packed
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tutorial as per normal we're also going
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to have a quick look at um some speaking
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part three model answers where you'll be
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able to hear a lot of the vocabulary in
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its natural environment which is the
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optimum way to learn the vocabulary
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rather than in just brutal lists
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before we get started let me very
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briefly tell you who I am my name is Ben
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Worthington I've been helping students
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for a very long time a very long time
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since 2011 can you believe
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it and it all started because I was a
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general English tutor and I had students
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coming to me asking for help with IELTS
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I really honestly had no idea so I start
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Ed out asking other tutors asking
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experts recording those tutorials then I
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released a PDF then I turned it into a
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course and we were doing essay
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Corrections and then fast forward to
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today and we've got our AI essay
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improve grab a pen take notes when
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you're writing you're more likely to
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remember this information at the bare
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minimum just make notes in your phone
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that's fine as well obviously let's jump
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into it juvenile crime and
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Society so what does juvenile crime even
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mean well it refers to crimes committed
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by young people usually around 16 and
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under or even 18 and under because in
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the UK law in the UK system at least
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around at 18 you are treated as an adult
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so let's just explore some different
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perspectives some different positions
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before we get into that let me just very
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briefly give you a two-minute grammar
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lesson about the grammar we're going to
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cover we're going to look at modal verbs
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such as might could should and must and
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these allow us to speculate about the P
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past present or future or even to make
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deductions based on evidence or even a
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lack of evidence and these are quite
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handy because when we use a new grammar
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structure it just helps us gain even
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points for the grammatical range and
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accuracy score so let's have a look at
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positions which you could take when you
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are faced with an argument about
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criminal punishments for under
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18s youth offenders can be
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rehabilitated more easily than adults
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some great vocabulary there youth
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rehabilitated now if you listen to the
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previous class or one that I did a while
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back we've got the we've got the word uh
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rehabilitated so from rehabilitate we
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Rehabilitation which is the act or
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process of rehabil ating we can have
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rehabilitator sorry meaning a person or
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rehabilitates we can have the adjective
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rehabilitative relating to or designed
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for rehabilitation and then we've got
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the prefixes and suffixes so we have r e
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at the beginning which means again our
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back it's already had the prefix added
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and then we've got the suffixes
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which we've just covered uh to make the
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nouns the i o n and the o r and the Ive
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adjective so go back to the tutorial
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about microplastics just to hear more
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about that mini lesson about how to
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expand your vocabulary using the root of
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word let's get back to it so positions
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early intervention can prevent future
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crimes these are all positions and then
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from these positions we can say because
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explain why and then give an example and
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then wrap up the paragraph and we've got
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a beautiful body paragraph we can even
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give a few reasons then develop one then
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give an example and then wrap it
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on a focus on Rehabilitation promotes a
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system Community programs can redirect
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negative energies into positive
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outcomes engaging youths in community
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services can enhance their social
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responsibility rehabilitative approaches
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can reduce the long-term cost of crime
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to society now as you know personally
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probably go with that last position
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for example my position is that I'm in
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favor of rehabilitative approaches
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because they can reduce the long-term
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cost of crime to society and now I can
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talk about the costs when we're talking
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about the costs we've got a very
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versatile argument that can be applied
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to a lot of situations about climate
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change about government regulations
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transportation about higher education if
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we make it into cost argument we can use
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the same vocabulary the S similar
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arguments again and again the cost for
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the government for example the cost for
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a company we can use the same vocabulary
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anyway um final position youth courts
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can provide peer accountability which
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impactful probably wouldn't go with that
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last argument because it makes you've
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got to explain what youth courts are
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um and then you've got to explain why it
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would be more accountable and it's kind
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of a long-winded way uh of argu it's a
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complicated argument and as you know I'm
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a big fan of simple arguments because
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they're easier to communicate and at the
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end of the day this is a language exam
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what is language language is
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communication let's go to some other
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positions some severe youth crimes may
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go unpunished due to lenient juvenile
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laws so these positions would be
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Rehabilitation um regarding juvenile
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crime or just sort of like the flip side
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victims of Youth crimes might feel
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served public perception of Juvenile
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Justice might be too lenient might be of
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too lenient sorry repeat offenders could
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perceive leniency as an opportunity to
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reoffend so there's some great
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vocabulary here we're using repeat
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offenders youth crimes lenient and again
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with lenient we could expand that with
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leniency next position a lack of severe
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consequences or the lack of severe
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consequences might not deter future
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crimes another beautiful verb there
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deter what I like about that position
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though is that we've got the negative
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lack which is extremely useful in our
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online course we've got a whole tutorial
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about using negative verbs instead of
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constructions so as to reduce the amount
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of words in our sentence to make it more
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succinct which which uh just makes it
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easier to read this is a higher level
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skill when I'm teaching students and I'm
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teaching lack uh and other negative
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verbs it means that we've moved Beyond
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Corrections and we've gone to
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improvements which is just an
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incredibly um enjoyable experience from
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a teacher's Point of
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View final position dependency on
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community programs might not be a
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sustainable solution in all regions that
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would need developing it's not Crystal
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Clear sorry last one I lied last time
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last one an overreliance on
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Rehabilitation might Overlook the need
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for punishment in certain areas again
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it's quite a long-winded argument and as
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you heard me say a few minutes ago I'm a
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bigger fan of simple arguments that are
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simple to explain simple to communicate
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and this way we don't get ourselves in a
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mess topics specific vocabulary
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collocations hopefully you'll have heard
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a few you'll have picked out a few
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delinquency rehabilitation program
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service criminal Behavior legal
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consequences diversion initiative don't
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like that one rehabilitative Justice I
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love that one crime prevention repeat
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offenders now as I said if you're aiming
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for a ban seven this is the kind of
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vocabulary you need to be comfortable
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with let's have a look at some model
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sentences the juvenile delinquency
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rates amazing could decrease
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significantly with the implementation of
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more community service programs
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community service that's a great one as
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well all of these model sentences are
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using the grammar point we mentioned
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before just basically using modal verbs
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Rehabilitation programs might be more
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effective if they are tailored to
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needs peer accountability may play a
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crucial role in altering criminal
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Behavior as I said I'm not a big fan of
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accountability this if you're wondering
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means well it's obviously not the most
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program but because I'm not even aware
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of it but anyway I'm not saying I'm
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expert I'm just a general Layman just a
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general uh human being and I have to
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guess I have to deduce that it would
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mean that you've got a group of 15 year
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olds and they're all accountable to each
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other so I like okay this week I won't
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commit any crimes and then they meet the
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next week and say oops I robbed a shop
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I'm sorry and everyone's disappointed
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with them it's kind of um yeah and you
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don't really want to be in a position to
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explaining something such as peer
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accountability next one legal
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consequences that's a great phrase legal
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consequences should modal verb legal
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consequences should be clearly
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communicated to act as a deterrent for
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potential repeat offenders deterrent I
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would get so excited if a student Send
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Me An Essay with the word deterrent in
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is one of those like higher level C2
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phrases which band 7 8 or n student will
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be using a diversion next sentence a
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diversion initiative could be the key to
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reducing rates of juvenile delinquency
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another reason why modal verbs are
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pretty handy as you've just heard is
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because we're hedging if I'd have said a
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diversion init initiative is the key to
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reducing rates of juvenile delinquency
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I've made a sweeping generalization here
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but if I said could I've introduced an
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uncertainty uh of an opp tiny
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opportunity for doubt which is the
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academic way of writing we're not using
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sweeping generalizations were hedging
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again there's a full tutorial all about
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hedging which is another feature of
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academic writing if you gone for a band
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seven or higher you definitely need this
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we've got a whole tutorial on it
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crime prevention programs must focus on
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Early Education about legal consequences
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beautiful the effectiveness of
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rehabilitative Justice might depend on
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the availability of adequate resources
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again hedged young offenders could hedge
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young offenders could benefit
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significantly from Rehabilitation
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programs focused on skill development
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that's a great one we've got the whole
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argument sort of like laid out the whole
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position laid out in one sentence now we
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say these skills could
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include job preparation or training to
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enter the workforce one such example is
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whereby young offenders I wouldn't use
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young offenders but I'd say juveniles
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accused and juveniles who have committed
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in what could we how could we say are
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in courses to improve employability
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these courses include skills such as it
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development woodworking so on and so
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forth okay and this is a very solid
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it Rehabilitation programs could be
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better than jails for example assuming
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that would be the question let's have a
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quick look at some speaking part three
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questions and model answers why do you
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think juvenile crime
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occurs have you ever thought about
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that this is the value you get from
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listening to I's podcast
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because I'm going to do the thinking for
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you I've never really thought seriously
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thought about why juvenile crime
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occurs I never really seriously thought
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about it before this tutorial but we're
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I'm going to I I guessed but this is my
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answer juvenile delinquency often stems
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from a complex mix of societal familial
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factors great example of parallelism
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there we have societal familial and
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personal factors we don't have juvenile
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delinquency often stems from a complex M
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of factors in society and other things
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family issues going on at home and the
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personality of the individual because
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that sentence is all janky a new word a
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developer taught me the other the other
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week it's all janky it's all over the
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place it doesn't flow there's no pattern
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there whereas if we say complex mix of
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one societal two familial and three
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personal factors it flows we've got that
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element let's carry on with this
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sentence I got a bit distracted there my
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parallelism young individuals might turn
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to Crime due to a lack of guidance peer
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pressure or economic necessity again
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quite a decent little sentence effective
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crime prevention strategies must
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therefore be multifaceted great little
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verb there multifaceted addressing these
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directly super next question should the
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legal system treat juvenile offenders
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differently from repeat from adult
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offenders that's the question we get
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speaking yes definitely juvenile
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offenders should be treated
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differently the primary goal with youths
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should be Rehabilitation rather than
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punishment their age and development
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stage offer a greater potential for
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reform which rehabilitative Justice
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programs can nurture wow you can pull
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off an answer like that you're getting a
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nine what role can schools play in
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preventing juvenile crime schools can
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play a pivotal role in crime pre
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prevention that's a great answer isn't
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it I often see what role what role do
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festivals play in your Society for
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example if we can introduce pivotal in
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answers just like when we hear a
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question about should well starting with
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should and we can say started off with
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absolutely then we're on to the right
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track I've explained in previous
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tutorials why starting an answer like
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that is a good idea anyway schools play
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a pivotal role in crime prevention by
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providing education and support before
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any criminal behavior develops they
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should offer Counseling Services social
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skills education and extracurricular
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activities to engage students
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question is juvenile crime common in
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country while not extremely common great
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way to start a sentence there with a
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comparative conjunction juvenile crime
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does occur and varies by region
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effective community service programs and
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legal consequences that are well
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publicized might help mitigate these
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offenses again as I said mitigates
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always the useful um verb as is
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multifaceted and as we just learned
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pivotal the adjective pivotal schools
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can play a pivotal role in crime
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right that's it for today's
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