Delinquency Prevention
Prevention is:
What is intervening before youth engage in delinquency?
Poverty, hyperactivity or impulsiveness, inadequate parental supervision, and harsh or inconsistent discipline
What is Early Risk Factors of delinquency?
Nonprofessional volunteers spend time with at-risk youth which helps to reduce delinquency and aggression
What is Mentoring?
A petition is filed, the juvenile is referred to court and a decision is made on if the youth stays in the community or goes to a secure facility
What is a Detention Hearing?
Designed to ward off involvement in a more serious delinquency program
What is Big Brothers/Big Sisters?
Two prevention programs:
What is YMCA, Boys and Girls clubs?
Provides support to families and one is to improve the outcome of the pregnancy and the quality of care for both parent and child
What is Home-based programs, and Home visitation?
10% reduction in delinquency, and
program is more effective when the duration
of contact between mentor and mentee is
longer
What is the effectiveness of mentoring?
Two categories of offenders
What is Delinquent offenders, and status offenders?
Goal = limit most restrictive sanctions to most dangerous offenders
Increase restrictions/intensity of treatment as offenders move from minor to serious offenses
What is Graduated sanctions?
Treatment or counseling for involved delinquents:
What is Tertiary prevention?
Parenting skills were shown to play a big factor in delinquency and education so much so a parenting program is well known
What is Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC)?
Targets Family and school environment
Target youth with highest risk for future delinquency
School-based programs need to be intensive
Engage parents in helping the student to learn
Reducing negative peer influences through information about gun carrying, drug use, and gang involvement
What is a successful School Program?
Age of jurisdiction
What is Most states (and D.C.) include all children under 18?
Many argue institutions are over-utilized
Encourage deinstitutionalization of juvenile offenders
What is Institutional Programs?
Made to prevent behavior before any patterns emerge:
What is primary prevention?
Appropriate learning curricula, Array of cognitive-based enriching activities, Parent activities and guidance
What is key features of preschool programs?
Vocational training, basic education, and healthcare Established in 1964 for disadvantaged youth
What is Job Corps?
The hearing could result in a variety of treatment
outcomes
What is Disposition?
Young people rather than adults determine the disposition in a case
Maybe preferable to the normal juvenile justice process in jurisdictions that do not or cannot, provide meaningful sanctions for all young, first time juvenile offenders (OJJDP)
What is Teen Courts?
For children showing some early signs of the behavior of delinquency:
What is Secondary Prevention?
Preschool program
The child-Parent center (CPC) in chicago
Helps to build or renovate affordable housing and education services, Started in 1978
What is YouthBuild U.S.A?
Uses different terms: E.g., crime vs. petition, secure pretrial holding facilities vs. detention centers, trial vs. hearing
What is Juvenile court?
The costs incurred by placing children in punitive secure facilities outweigh the
What is benefits accrued in crime reduction?