Delinquency Prevention
"Involves any non-justice program or policy designed to prevent the occurrence of a future delinquent act"
What is delinquency prevention?
T/F: The general public is supportive of early intervention programs & is willing to pay more in taxes to carry out the programs.
Three techniques/key delinquency prevention approaches targeted for teenagers:
What are mentoring, school-based programs, and job training.
_____ and _____ are the only two US states that set the oldest age for juvenile court jurisdiction in delinquency cases at age 15.
What is New York and North Carolina?
T/F: For young children, some of the most important risk factors include low intelligence and attainment, impulsiveness, poor parental supervision, parental conflict, and living in crime-ridden and deprived neighborhoods.
True
a positive factor in an individual's life that decreases the risks of participating in delinquent behaviors/act.
What is protective factor?
a popular and effective form of ______ is home visitation.
What is family support?
Based on the large number of females and males enrolled in the Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP) the most common areas of increased risks are _____and ____.
What are school and family domains.
___(%) of all children arrested are referred to juvenile court.
What is 68%?
Big Brother Big Sisters of America; Functional Family Therapy; Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care are designed for ____ (what group of youths)
At-risk teenage youths
home visitations, preschools, child skills training, mentoring, job training, after-school recreation
What are examples of delinquency prevention strategies?
The most widely cited parenting skills program, & by who?
What is the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC), created by Gerald Patterson?
Established in 1964 as a federal training program for disadvantaged, unemployed youths; operating out of 125 centers across the United States.
What is Job Corps?
Children in police custody are protected against unreasonable search and seizures under the _____ and ______ Amendments.
What are the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?
a concept established by the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Act of 1974 to remove as many youths as possible from secure confinement
What is deinstitutionalization?
What is the Public Health approach; What is Primary prevention, Secondary prevention, and Tertiary prevention?
T/F: Unlike Perry Preschool, the Child-Parent Center (CPC) in Chicago continued to provide children with educational enrichment up to age 12.
False! CPC continued to provide educational enrichment up to age 9.
An additional component to school-based delinquency prevention programs is improving ________, by engaging parents in helping students learn.
What is the family environment?
A two-stage decision process that separates adjudicatory and dispositionary hearings.
What is bifurcated process?
1 of 4 potential benefits of teen courts; if managed properly, they may handle a substantial number of offenders at relatively little cost to the community
Cost savings; the other three are accountability, timeliness, and community cohesion
informed by longitudinal studies, targets at-risk & protective factors, designed to prevent the development of criminal potential in individuals
What is the Developmental Perspective on delinquency prevention?
What is the Nurse-Family Partnership?
________ conducted a comprehensive review of school-based programs and found that successful programs target higher-risk youth and target an array of important risk factors for delinquency and other antisocial behaviors.
Who is Denis Gottfredson?
Because the language in juvenile court and adult court differs, in the juvenile court system a criminal trial is referred to as ____.
What is a hearing?
focuses on providing treatment accused of drug-related acts, there are 451 of these around the country w/ 48 being planned.
what are Drug courts, an alternative court.