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But Mike Males, a senior researcher at a San Francisco-based child-advocacy group, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, has done studies of curfew laws and said there is no evidence they reduce crime.
Earlier Nights in New Orleans? Cameron McWhirter 2012
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On the other hand, Wells has been at odds of late with child-advocacy activists who oppose proposals to share more information about youths who commit violent crimes.
In D.C.'s Ward 6, Wells's progressive agenda assailed as out of touch 2010
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The nonprofit, run by representatives of adult Web sites, free-speech, privacy and child-advocacy concerns, would determine registration eligibility.
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One of the world's largest child-advocacy groups questions such an allocation of money.
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Fortunately, child-advocacy groups such as Commercial Alert and Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children have far-reaching legislative goals, including a parents 'bill of rights and banning television advertising to children under 12.
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About two million children are likely to be affected by the wave of foreclosures on subprime mortgages, mostly this year and next, according to an analysis by First Focus, a bipartisan child-advocacy group based in Washington.
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A child-advocacy volunteer in Colorado estimated that "50 percent of my caseload involves families where a parent is involved in meth use."
MAIL CALL 2007
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ANDERSON: But as we heard on NBC ` s "Today" show, the minor Conradt allegedly was chatting with online was actually volunteer with Perverted Justice, a child-advocacy group which, along with "Dateline NBC," was in the area working on the latest edition of "To Catch a Predator."
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But Alejandro Cussiánovich, who heads IFEJANT, a Lima-based child-advocacy group, and is a foremost expert on the child workers' rights movement, argues that putting child soldiers in the same basket with a 10-year-old who shines shoes a few afternoons a week - as the ILO agenda does - muddles the discussion.
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They receive financial support from small child-advocacy NGOs, often with adult social workers as advisers.
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