Risk/Protective Factors
This is one example of an adverse childhood experience.
What is one of the most commonly used substances among justice involved youth?
What is alcohol? What is marijuana? What is tobacco?
This is the one right given to adults that is not given to juveniles on trial for confidentiality reasons.
What is trial by jury?
This is one type of restorative justice programming.
What is victim-offender conferencing? What is family group conferencing? What is restitution? What is teen court? What is arbitration programs?
This is the part of the brain that drives emotional responses.
What is the amygdala?
This is one internal protective factor against juvenile delinquency.
What is self-efficacy? What is psychological flexibility? What is optimism? What is hope? What is good emotional regulation? What is problem-solving skills? What is empathy and perspective taking? What is prosocial beliefs? What is resilience?
This neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity, is highly prevalent among justice-involved youth and linked to poor impulse control.
What is ADHD?
This is one of the charges that results in automatic transfer to adult court in Virginia.
What is Capital Murder? What is First or Second-Degree Murder? What is Murder by Lynching? What is Aggravated Malicious Wounding?
This type of therapy focuses on empowering parents to manage behavior by addressing factors across multiple domains of youth’s life.
What is multisystemic therapy?
This theory states that calling a youth delinquent will cause them to be delinquent.
What is Labelling theory?
This adverse childhood experience is the most common in justice-involved youth.
What is exposure to violence?
This is one symptom of conduct disorder.
What is aggression to people and animals? What is destruction of property? What is deceitfulness or theft? What is serious violations of rules?
At this early stage, juvenile cases may be screened out of formal court processing and instead sent to diversion programs or services.
What is intake?
This prevention program that we read about aimed to prevent delinquency from the outset in a high risk sample.
What is nurse home visitation?
This court case gave juveniles due process rights.
What is in re Gault?
This is the strict and uniform application of predetermined consequences for specific infractions regardless of individual circumstances in schools.
What is zero tolerance policy?
These are two common symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are hallucinations and delusions?
This is one of the informal (unofficial action) arrest options available to police.
What is release? What is reprimand? What is juvenile card?
In the Risk–Need–Responsivity model, this principle emphasizes matching the intensity of treatment to an offender’s likelihood of reoffending.
What is the Risk principle?
This case ruled that mandatory life without parole sentences are unconstitutional for juveniles.
What is Miller vs. Alabama (2012)?
This percentage of youth are involved in both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
What is 30%?
This percentage represents the comorbidity of substance use disorder and major depressive disorder in justice-involved youth.
What is 70-80%?
These are the three requirements outlined by Dusky for competence to stand trial.
What are factual understanding, rational understanding, and ability to assist counsel?
These are three requirements to complete mental health court.
What are mental health diagnosis, pending charges, voluntary participation, mental health need was a factor in the delinquent behavior, youth must admit to the alleged charges?
Countries that align with this particular model have lower rates of imprisonment in adult and juvenile facilities.
What is the social welfare model?