Theories/ Characteristics
A theory that maintains that all crime is attributable to an individuals lack of self-control.
What is Self-Control Theory?
_________ represent a relatively small proportion (less than one-third) of the overall delinquency caseload.
What are Females?
During the visits, the nurse focuses on the health of the __________, the support relationships in the mother’s life, and the enrollment of the mother and child in Health and Human Services Programs.
What is mother and child?
_______ is directed at preventing illegal acts among the juvenile population as a whole before they occur by alleviating social conditions related to the offenders.
What is primary prevention?
The extent to which people are vulnerable to the temptations of the moment.
___________ that fill unsupervised after-school hours and allow positive interaction among peers.
What are after school recreation programs?
Nurses in the program visit low income, single mothers between their ________ trimester and second year of the child’s life.
What is third?
Both ________ and _________ theories stress the desirability of prevention rather than correction.
What are labeling and learning?
School-age children who return home from school to and empty house because their parents are out working.
What is a Latchkey Child?
_______ programs at schools that create safer environments for students
What is Bullying prevention?
Successes of this program include a reduction in the number of arrests, convictions, and _________ among juveniles who completed the program.
What is substance abuse?
________combined with early childhood education may well be successful in bringing about long-term prevention.
What is comprehensive family support?
Theory that asserts that offenders are free actors responsible for their own actions.
__________ provides youth with: an awareness of the needs of others; a sense of purpose by giving them the chance to make a difference; and a pride and connection to their larger environment
What is community service?
After a 15 year follow up, the participants showed a _________ percent lower rate for child arrests.
What is 56%?
__________ describe those agencies having goals similar to those of the juvenile justice system
What are functionally related agencies?