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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"incarcerated youth"”.
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Educating Incarcerated Youth In Illinois: A Blended Learning Model
… and ability to meet the unique needs of incarcerated youth. These findings are particularly important given the correlation between educational achievement and recidivism. Findings also indicated great promise for using blended learning to address the challenges related to transience, …
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Imagining ‘possible selves’ as an intervention strategy for incarcerated youth
… selves’ as an intervention strategy for incarcerated youth. The participants share experiences of their own incarceration as juveniles as well as insights gained through their recent working experience with incarcerated youth. This study concerns itself with risk and resilience factors …
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Reading and Math Outcomes for Incarcerated Youth with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Helping youths acquire educational skills is one of the most effective approaches to the prevention of delinquency and reduction of recidivism. Access to a high-quality education is particularly important for the growing number of youth committed to juvenile corrections, especially for those who …
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Easing Reentry of Incarcerated Youth With and Without Disabilities Through Employability and Social Skills Training
<p>When incarcerated youth – those with and those without disabilities – face the prospect of reentering the community, they have many obstacles to overcome. Employment requirements are often associated with terms of parole or aftercare. Those who fail to obtain and maintain employment often …
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Uncovering the lived experience of marriage and family therapists working with incarcerated youth: A phenomenological approach
… Within the population of adolescents who are incarcerated, youth with diagnosable mental illness are overrepresented compared to the general population. Though youth arrest rates have declined greatly since the turn of the 21st century, youth recidivism rates have been consistent for the past …
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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
… level of special education services provided to incarcerated youth, specifically the occurrence of 30-day placement IEPs. The juvenile detention facility was selected as a site because it was a lighthouse program, one of the few chosen to pilot the juvenile detention alternatives initiative …
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An investigation of the relationship between mental health and recidivism among incarcerated youth offenders in South Africa: the role of substance use
… between mental health and recidivism among incarcerated youth offenders in South Africa and the role of substance use. The Ecological Systems Theory and the Theory of Planned Behaviour provided the theoretical frameworks for this study. A cross-sectional quantitative exploratory research …
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Disparities in Juvenile Justice Processing of African-American Males in Champaign County, Illinois, 1998--1999
"The study examined the ""risk indicator"" of incarcerated youth. In particular, the study sought to compare the characteristics of incarcerated African-American and White male youth."
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"Soon as they get in trouble, they want the children in jail": Perspectives from Black families of formerly incarcerated youth on equity and the school-prison nexus in New Orleans
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Finding Voice from the Inside: How Postsecondary Education Impacted Perceptions of Higher Education for Long-Term Incarcerated Juveniles
… with regard to postsecondary opportunities for incarcerated youth. Minimal research and curriculum design are rarely available for the purpose of improving juvenile postsecondary correctional education thereby limiting recidivism rates of students in the juvenile justice system. The pilot …
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Inside Looking Out: An Observation on Restorative Justice Practices within Illinois Juvenile Prisons
… their implementation, challenges, and impact on incarcerated youth. Grounded in criminology and justice studies, the research employs an observational and qualitative approach to explore how restorative justice frameworks function in environments historically shaped by punitive models of …
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I Hope I Don't See You Tomorrow: A Phenomenological Ethnography Of The Passages Academy School Program
… offers educational services for court-involved youth in New York City. Looking specifically at the Department of Education teachers who work in facilities run by the Department of Juvenile Justice, this research focuses on the beliefs and behaviors that inform the teaching experience within …
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Unexamined Youth of the Juvenile Justice System: An Examination of the Prevalence of Unspecified Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorder Diagnosis
… System (JJS) has a disproportionate number of youths with mental health concerns. Studies have shown that up to 98% of incarcerated youth have a mental illness diagnosis (Harzke et al., 2012). Multiple factors lead to high rates of diagnoses; one being that the juveniles who conduct delinquent …
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An Evolving Standard of Decency: Examining the American Juvenile Justice System and the Constitutionality of Youth Incarceration
… 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 disparity in the incarceration rate between that of minority youth and …
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Capturing fidelity to understand implementation of Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in juvenile justice correctional facilities
… Cognitive- Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and youth self-reported post session symptom severity. TF-CBT was provided to 21 incarcerated youth by 8 therapists employed in 3 juvenile correctional facilities. This study used observational coding measurement of 53 TF-CBT therapy audiotapes to …
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Libraries for social change: centering youth of color and/or LGBTQ youth in library practice
… are capable of providing meaningful services to youth made most vulnerable to the state through surveillance, policing, and incarceration. This research traces how past policies and processes that established white, middle-class, and hetero-normative conduct and knowledge as central to library …