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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Detention Center"”.
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Detention Center to Home School: The Path of Transition
<p>This study examined the way a juvenile detention center and local feeder high schools worked in conjunction with each other to educate students that are incarcerated and then transition back to their home school. The goal of this study was to determine the adequacy of the transition/re-entry …
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Student Perceptions of the Charter School Experience at Metropolitan Detention Center
… of a charter school experience at Metro Detention Center in Bernalillo County, New Mexico were examined via in-depth interviews of two groups of students. One group consisted of 12 new students who had not attended classes yet. This group was re-interviewed at 3 weeks to determine any …
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Training Christian Men to Lead Their Family While Incarcerated at Hampton County Detention Center in Varnville, South Carolina
… encourage, and develop fathers at Hampton County Detention Center in Varnville, South Carolina, to become godly examples to and biblical shepherds of their children with a view toward ending the cycle of hopelessness, lawlessness, and failure in their families. Chapter 1 provides the context for …
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A Study of the Transition of Youth from a Detention Center Education Program to a Standard School Education Program in Selected Southeastern States
… the successful transition of youth from a detention educational program to a mainstream educational program. The study investigated the following components: (a) informal or formalized transition programs, (b) the practices used to assist youth at the detention level transition to the …
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The Uncorrected Self: Identity Negotiation in Juvenile Detention
… negotiation for juvenile detainees in a county detention center in the Midwestern United States. Participants included six male, first-time detainees, ages 12 to 16, their parents, and detention center staff and administrators. Working within a narrative framework that incorporates theories of …
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Voices from Lock-Up: Reflections of Detained Youth
… services while at the Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center. This thesis will explore the thoughts the participants themselves had about this experience, supplementing the dearth of available research in this area.</p>
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Measuring self-worth and certainty of punishment in prison populations
… certainty of punishment. The focus of this work centers around the administration of a questionnaire to inmates of four penal institutions (n = 219). The sites visited were the Stewart-Mojave Detention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada; the Southern Nevada Desert Correctional Centers in Jean and Indian …
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Preparing the young offender for return to society: A theoretical evaluation of Guyanese juvenile delinquents' narratives based on general treatment models
<p>The site of the study is a co-educational detention center known as the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), located in a former British colony of South America, now known as Guyana. Forty- eight detainees of this institution, which is also legally designated a training school, were interviewed about …
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Intimate Partners in Crime: Utilizing Life Course to Examine Female Criminality
… detainees (n=27) at a medium-sized local jail/detention center. Results indicated that relationship typologies serve as a durable indicator to the onset and the desistence of criminal activity. Likewise, the results indicated a positive relationship between criminality and delinquent male …
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Linking Childhood Abuse to Suicidal Behavior: An Examination of the Mediating Variables
… two hundred adolescents incarcerated at juvenile detention centers in Virginia. All participants voluntarily completed 11 self-report measures which took approximately 1½ to 2 hours, while seated in their classroom at the juvenile detention center. The findings from the present study suggest that …
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Perspectives of physical education from teachers, staff and students in a juvenile justice setting
… physical education in an all girls' juvenile detention center. The use of autoethnography guided this descriptive study through the lived experiences of the physical educator. The data indicated that physical education was often met with roadblocks and detours to implementing developmentally …
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Types of Aggression, Responsiveness to Provocation, and Psychopathic Traits
… study examined 85 boys (ages 13 to 18) from a detention center. Three groups of aggressive boys were identified via cluster analysis based on the self-report of types of aggressive behavior: a primarily reactive aggressive group (n=29), a mixed reactive and proactive group (n=16), and a low …
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Juvenile justice reform: A tale of two systems
… efforts in one state. The first initiative, a detention risk assessment tool, is embedded within the second initiative, a family court pilot project. Detention screening tools have been developed primarily to alleviate detention center overcrowding and to reduce disproportionate minority …
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The Revolving Door: Stories from the Juvenile Justice System
… prisons – much like a revolving door. This study centers the voices of those “othered” children. I collected “stories to live by” -- a narrative view of identity -- from young adults in Kansas who have lived experience within the Juvenile Justice System (JJS). Narrative inquiry allows research to …
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An Examination of Teacher Efficacy on Student Achievement in Regional Juvenile Detention Centers and Youth development Centers in Kentucky
… of teachers who work in the juvenile detention and youth development centers in Kentucky and how their level of self-efficacy influences their students' efforts to complete high school. This study is important because it provides information that contributes to the improvement of …