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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Juvenile Detention"”.
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The Uncorrected Self: Identity Negotiation in Juvenile Detention
… the process of identity 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 …
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Can Representativeness Decrease Youth Violence in Juvenile Detention Facilities?
… conduct studies in adult prisons than juvenile correctional facilities, which focus on rehabilitation for youth. Therefore, this study further examines youth correctional staff attitudes toward inmates. The way correctional officers' treat minors may impact the amount of violence in …
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Rehabilitative practices in juvenile detention: invoking multiple perspectives to explore implementation
The dual purpose of the juvenile justice system is to protect community members and deter minors from engaging in criminal behavior. Thus, one perennial challenge faced by this system is “balancing” punishment and rehabilitation. Notably, research exploring the utility of rehabilitation with …
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Barriers and Facilitators to the Implementation of Suicide Prevention in Juvenile Detention Settings
Youth in juvenile detention centers experience disproportionately high rates of suicide risk, yet the use and quality of suicide prevention practices in these settings remain low. The current study examined stakeholder-perceived barriers and facilitators of implementing suicide prevention across 10 …
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An Examination of Teacher Efficacy on Student Achievement in Regional Juvenile Detention Centers and Youth development Centers in Kentucky
… the self-efficacy 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 …
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Serving Youth Who Are Serving Time: A Study of the Special Education Services for Incarcerated Youth in a Short-Term Care Facility
… Alternative Education program and the receiving juvenile detention facility of a county in a Western state and how the communication between the two facilities affected the level of special education services provided to incarcerated youth, specifically the occurrence of 30-day placement IEPs. …
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An Evolving Standard of Decency: Examining the American Juvenile Justice System and the Constitutionality of Youth Incarceration
… nation in the world. Studies have shown that juvenile detention is generally ineffective at rehabilitating delinquent youth, which places the practice at odds with the stated intent of modern juvenile justice. Similar to the adult criminal justice system, there is a significant and widespread …
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CAN REHABILITATIVE PROGRAMS REDUCE THE RECIDIVISM OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS?
<p>Since the founding of the juvenile justice system, minimal attention or research effort has been contributed to the understanding of factors affecting the rates of juvenile arrests, detainment, and return to community. Over time, studies have seen juvenile recidivism rise and fall. Counties and …
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Linking Childhood Abuse to Suicidal Behavior: An Examination of the Mediating Variables
… attempted to identify a pathway in a sample of juvenile delinquents because they have been shown to be at an increased risk for suicide when compared to the general population. It was initially hypothesized that the use of avoidant coping strategies; a self-deprecatory attributional style; poor …
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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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"I Don't Approve of That Way of Running a Family": Transient Children, Institutions, and Interventions in California Through the Great Depression and Dust Bowl
… lunches, and by reforming old ones, such as the juvenile detention facilities. This work also sheds light on how Progressive ideas interacted with the New Deal state and anti-migrant sentiment to complicate the treatment of transient youths. This account also challenges the Dust Bowl …
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Discounted: Stories of formerly gang involved and incarcerated Latino males in Los Angeles County
… civic leaders, guidance counselors in juvenile detention centers, and nonprofit organizers will benefit from learning the elements needed to begin changing the life courses for the men in this community through collaborative partnerships.</p>
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Fatherless homes and delinquency: a study of institutionalized African American male youth
… the relationship between fatherless homes and juvenile delinquency, especially as it is perceived by African American adolescent males (N=23) who have been detained in a juvenile detention facility. This study is ethnographic, exploratory, and inductive in its approach. Hypotheses are generated …
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Libraries for social change: centering youth of color and/or LGBTQ youth in library practice
… of inquiry from perspectives of youth located in juvenile detention to community and public library services. These cases are directed by participatory action research and situated forms of grounded theory. Together, the cases incorporate youth voice into actionable outcomes in library practice …
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Incarcerated juvenile delinquents: psychopathic traits and the relevance of callous-unemotional traits
… for age of crime onset in incarcerated juvenile delinquents. The participants were male and female incarcerated youths from the Juvenile Detention Centers of the Portuguese Ministry of Justice. Results support the use of the APSD-SR among incarcerated male youths in terms of its …
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Perspectives of physical education from teachers, staff and students in a juvenile justice setting
… dearth of research on physical education in the juvenile justice system. This dissertation, comprised of three studies, examines that domain in the context of the SOAR program. The first study retrospectively used a teaching journal to examine the lived experience of teaching physical education …
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Exploring the Functional Subtypes of Relational and Overt Aggression in a Sample of Detained Girls
… (78%) adolescent girls recruited from three juvenile detention centers in the southeastern United States. Participants ranged in age from 12 to 18 (Mn = 14.98; SD = 1.30). Relational aggression was measured using both self-report and observation, while overt aggression, delinquency, and …
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Serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders: a systems approach
… and 18 years who were detained in two different juvenile detention centers at the time of the study. As many previous self-report studies have tended to draw samples of youth not containing a significant proportion of serious, violent, and chronic offenders (for example, school-based and …
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Morte e reincidência juvenil na pós-medida de internação na Bahia: contribuições para redução do arbítrio profissional na avaliação interdisciplinar
… on the time of release. From there, the juvenile recidivism rate in the post-internment period in Bahia was investigated from several perspectives. In the study on the implementation of juvenile measures, the following gap was reached: the vast professional discretion in formulating the …
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