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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"Juvenile Justice"”.
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Inside the Juvenile Justice System
… and integrity and being a nation that stands for justice and equality for all. Within the United States there are systems in place to better the people and communities in order to provide safety and order. However, just as any nation, there is a struggle with violent behavior and tendencies among …
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Juvenile Justice Sentencing: Are There Alternatives?
Research indicates that states have implemented juvenile justice reforms to enact harsher punishments, to transfer greater numbers and younger juvenile offenders to adult criminal court, and to restrict discretion of the juvenile court judges. Social science studies have found that harsher …
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Minority over-representation in the juvenile justice system
Minority over-representation in the juvenile justice system is a national concern. Research in this area is limited, however, there is indication that minority over-representation, particularly of African-American youth, seems to occur at various stages of juvenile justice processing. It is my …
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Juvenile justice reform: A tale of two systems
<p>This study examines two juvenile justice reform 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 …
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Reducing juvenile justice involvement through a childhood truancy intervention
… intervention in terms of reducing rates of juvenile delinquency over six years. Few (n = 11) participants became involved in the formal justice system, so the intervention’s effectiveness was measured by re-referrals for continued truancy. The regression discontinuity design was used to …
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The Revolving Door: Stories from the Juvenile Justice System
… in Kansas who have lived experience within the Juvenile Justice System (JJS). Narrative inquiry allows research to be interpretive and phenomenological—in that it involves examination of a participant’s lifeworld and explores their personal perception of an object or event, as opposed to an …
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Youth with Juvenile Justice Contact: Special Considerations in Measurement
<p>Students who have contact with the juvenile justice system are a particularly vulnerable and unique school-aged population. The risk factors that plague the likelihood of justice-involvement are numerous and inter-connected. Early experiences of trauma and adversity, limited familial and …
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Diversion strategies in juvenile justice: the court liaison program.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1973. B.S.
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Juvenile Injustice: Disproportionate Minority Contact in Oklahoma's Juvenile Justice System
… show that minority overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system is not a new phenomenon. The problem, however, is not going away and might even be getting worse. In 2008, the FBI's Uniform Crime Report showed that 52% of juvenile Violent Crime Index arrests, and 33% of juvenile Property …
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Punishment versus non-stigmatization in the Massachusetts juvenile justice system.
Thesis. 1976. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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MAINE'S NEW JUVENILE CODE: A CASE STUDY IN JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM
<p>The history of juvenile justice in the United States is largely a history of failed reform efforts. The most significant of these efforts was the establishment of the juvenile court at the turn of the century and the idea of "socialized" juvenile justice on which it was based. Because the …
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Gender, religion, causal attributions, and correctional orientations among juvenile justice personnel
1 PDF file (viii, 115 leaves ; 28 cm)
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Prevention, Diversion, and Reentry: Effects of School and Juvenile Justice Policy Reforms
… of future delinquency. Reforms to school and juvenile justice policies may help reduce youth contact with the juvenile justice system and minimize such consequences. Using quasi-experimental methods, I examine three policy interventions designed to address youth needs at different stages: …
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Teacher Job Satisfaction in the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice School System
… facilities in the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice School System for the purpose of developing an understanding of job satisfaction among teachers in this school system. Survey results were obtained through a 40% return rate from the research sample. Sixty-six percent of teachers …
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Criminal Juvenile Justice in America: a Model Primer for High School Students
<p>The increased interest in criminal justice education at the secondary level, as discussed in Chapter 1, coupled with the apparent lack of a single, comprehensive source on crime, criminal law, and criminal justice at the secondary level indicated that a text that covered those subjects would be …
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A mixed method examination of racial disproportionalities among youth who cross over from the child welfare to the juvenile justice system: child welfare and juvenile justice professionals' perspectives and racial attitudes
… from involvement in the child welfare to the juvenile justice system. During individual, semi-structured, audio-recorded interviews, 33 experienced child welfare, law enforcement and court professionals first described their perspectives on why youth cross over from the child welfare to the …
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