Delinquency Prevention
What is Delinquency Prevention?
Intervening in young people’s lives before they engage in delinquency
What is Early childhood delinquency prevention?
Positively influencing early risk factors of delinquency and criminal offending that continue into adulthood.
What do teenage prevention programs target?
Mentoring, School-based programs, and Job training.
Who does the juvenile justice system have jurisdiction over?
Delinquent offenders and Status offenders.
What does a Comprehensive
Juvenile Justice Strategy focus on?
Crime prevention and expanding options for dealing with juvenile offenders.
What is Delinquency Control?
Police arrest, a juvenile court sanction, or death penalty
What are some early risk factors?
Poverty, hyperactivity or impulsiveness, inadequate parental supervision, and harsh or inconsistent discipline
What are some of the risk that teenagers are exposed to?
Parental conflict and separation, poor housing, dropping out, and antisocial peers.
What are Delinquent offenders?
Those who fall under the jurisdictional age limit and commit an act that violates the penal code.
What are the key components to this strategy?
Intervention for at-risk teenage youths,graduated sanction to hold juvenile offenders accountable, proper utilization of detention and confinement, and placement of serious offenders in adult courts.
What is the Public Health Approach?
The public health model focuses on reducing the risk of and increasing resiliency against illness and disease
What are Home-Based programs?
Programs that providing support for families.
What is the effectiveness of mentoring?
10% reduction in delinquency, and program is more effective when duration of contact between mentor and mentee is longer.
What are Status offenders?
Persons in need of supervision
Which early risk factors suggest future delinquency?
Low intelligence, impulsiveness, poor parental supervision, parental conflict, and socially disorganized neighborhoods.
What is Non-Justice Delinquency Prevention?
Organizations such as the YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
What is the purpose of home visitations?
To improve the outcomes of pregnancy, quality of care that parents provide to their children, and women’s own personal life-course development.
What is Job Corps?
It is a federal program established in 1964 for disadvantaged, unemployed youths.To improve employability by offering vocational skills training, basic education, and health care.
Which states set the upper limit at age 17?
Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin.
What are interventions?
Focused on youth considered at higher risk for delinquent behavior and designed to ward off involvement in more serious delinquency.
What is the Developmental Perspective?
Interventions, risk and protective factors that are designed to prevent the development of criminal potential in individuals.
What are the key feature of Preschool?
Developmentally appropriate learning curricula, Wide array of cognitive-based enriching activities, and Activities for parents.
What is YouthBuild U.S.A.?
Started in 1978 and focuses on building or renovating affordable housing and provides educational services
Which states set the age limit to under age 16?
New York and North Carolina.
What are teen courts?
Young people rather than adults determine the disposition in a case. May be preferable to the normal juvenile justice process in jurisdictions that do not, or cannot, provide meaningful sanctions for all young, first-time juvenile offenders