Delinquency Prevention
involves any justice program or policy designed to prevent the occurrence of a future delinquent act
what is delinquency control or delinquency repression?
A home visitation program that was started by Elmira, New York.
What is the Nurse-Family Partnership?
Involves nonprofessional volunteers spending time with young people at risk for delinquency, school failure, dropping out, and other social problems.
What is mentoring?
When a child commits a crime, police have the authority to investigate. Deciding whether to release the child or commit them to juvenile court.
What is police investigation?
Designed to prevent the occurrence of a future delinquent act.
What is delinquency prevention?
The "gold standard" of evaluation. It involves randomly assigning subjects to either receive the program or to not receive it.
What is randomized controlled experiment?
A type of review that uses rigorous methods for locating, appraising, and synthesizing evidence from prior evaluation studies.
A hearing by a judicial officer to determine whether a juvenile is to be detained of released, while proceedings are pending in the case.
What is detention hearing?
A negative prior factor, that increases the risk of occurrence of a future delinquent act.
What is risk factor?
The most widely cited parenting skills program.
A statistical technique that synthesizes results from prior evaluation studies.
What is meta-analysis?
The fact-finding process wherein juvenile court determines whether there is sufficient evidence to sustain the allegations in a petition.
What is adjudicatory hearing?
A positive factor, that decreases the risk of occurrence of a future delinquent act.
Key features of this program includes: developmentally appropriate learning curricula, a wide array of cognitive-based enriching activities, and activities for parents.
What is Preschool?
These type of programs work to produce vibrant and productive members of society, and to prevent delinquency in general.
What are school programs?
The procedure of separating adjudicatory and dispositionary hearings so different levels of evidence can be heard at each.
What is bifurcated process?
This method divides delinquency prevention activities into three categories: primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
what is public health approach?
This program provided disadvantaged children with educational enrichment supplemented with weekly home visits.
What is the Perry Preschool?
A program by helping kids prepare for the adult workforce.
What is job training?
The equivalent of sentencing for adult offenders. Juvenile dispositions should be more rehabilitative than retributive.
What is Disposition?