Sentences with phrase «among juvenile offenders»

Interventions should also be multifaceted to address the multitude of risk factors associated with polysubstance use among juvenile offenders.

Gender differences in the trends and correlates of major depressive episodes among juvenile offenders in the United States.

A review of HIV prevention interventions among juvenile offenders.

Programs such as Functional Family Therapy and Multisystemic Therapy are covered by CHIP in most states and have been shown to significantly cut re-arrests among juvenile offenders.

Michele LaVigne presented «Language Impairments Among Juvenile Offenders: Beyond Brain Development» at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association Conference: «Graham v. Florida Convening» in New Orleans.

In a SIB, the government contracts with an outside provider to achieve a measurable social goal (like reducing recidivism among juvenile offenders), private impact investors finance the program's upfront costs, and the government promises a return to them if the program's targets are achieved.

Not exact matches

We've included some statistics on illiteracy rates among juvenile and adult offenders to demonstrate how important a solid education is.

Kahn, T. J. & Chambers, H.J. (1991) Assessing reoffense risk with juvenile sexual offenders, Child Welfare, LXX (3), pp. 333 - 345 Kobayashi, J. Sales, B. D., Becker, J. V. Figueredo, A. J. & Kaplan, M. S. (1995) perceived parental deviance, parent child - bonding, child - abuse, and child sexual aggression, Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 7 (1), pp. 25 - 43 Rasmussen, L. A. (1999) Factors related to recidivism among juvenile sexual offenders, Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 11, pp. 69 - 85

Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.

HIV Prevention in the Family Court (funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse) Project RAP is testing the effect of a family - based HIV prevention intervention on reducing marijuana use and increasing safer sex behaviors among substance abusing juvenile offenders.

Peer counseling strategies: Facilitating self - disclosure among sexually victimized juvenile offenders.

America's Children 1999 shows that youth are less likely to smoke, die and or be victimized by crime, but they have made fewer gains in areas that predict their economic futures... Among the report's most positive results is a 40 percent drop in serious violent crime involving juvenile offenders since 1993.»

The current study examines racial / ethnic disparity in psychiatric diagnoses and treatment of behavioral disorders associated with delinquency, controlling for traumatic experiences, behavioral indicators, and prior offending among serious juvenile offenders.

In a population of serious juvenile offenders, we found that the presence of antisocial peers in one's network predicts one's own criminal behavior to a significantly greater extent in individuals with low RPI scores than among those who have equally antisocial peers but score high on RPI (Monahan et al., 2007).