Sentences with phrase «as juvenile offenders»

What is your community doing to close the digital divide for underserved groups such as juvenile offenders, recent immigrants, or the elderly?

He will be arraigned at the Westchester County Courthouse as a juvenile offender.

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Last year over 10,000 pre-teenaged boys were processed through the Texas court system as «status offenders» (juveniles apprehended for offenses that would not have been offenses if committed by adults).

«We support the governor's proposal to to raise the age of criminal responsibility in New York, but where will the juvenile offenders go as the juvenile justice system has been decimated under this governor?.

But Republicans counter that while juvenile offenders may be entering the system through adult court, that doesn't mean they are being treated as adults, since judges and prosecutors have broad discretion.

«The vast majority of juvenile offenders are treated as children already in New York and it doesn't need to change,» he said, adding that prison is typically treated as a last resort unless they commit violent crimes that should not be treated as juvenile.

ALBANY, NY (03/28/2012)(readMedia)-- CSEA today restated the dangers of fast tracking Governor Andrew Cuomo's Close to Home proposal for shifting juvenile offenders into nonexistent New York City programs as new information has come to light about the criminal background of those individuals who would be moved.

At the same time as he was diverting offenders from upstate juvenile detention facilities, Cuomo also closed down all of the New York City — based OCFS facilities, undermining any claim that the program was really about moving juveniles closer to their homes.

And While Cuomo did not appear in public, he did write an op ed article to the legislature, asking for passage of another one of his agenda items, raising the age that juvenile offenders are treated as adults from 16 to 18 years of age.

Kevin Bryant, as an attorney, deals with juvenile, youthful and adult offenders, face - to - face on a regular basis.This legal experience is an essential item for family court judge since family court justices can make or break a juvenile offender future path in life.

Prior to that, he regularly represented juvenile offenders in Family Court as well.

Freelancers casts 50 Cent as Jonas «Malo» Maldonado, an habitual juvenile offender from Queens who has gotten his life on course and joined the NYPD along with his equally seasoned best friends, Lucas Ryan (Ryan O'Nan) and A.D. Valburn (Malcolm Goodwin).

Florida's virtual school, university - run laboratory schools, schools for juvenile offenders, a school for «high risk» boys including sex offenders, and the state school for the deaf and blind would all count as «parallel» public schools uncontrolled by local boards.

Although the percentage of juvenile offenders under the age of 18 confined in a correctional facility declined from 1 percent to half that level between 1997 and 2011, they were still five times as likely to be in detention or correctional facilities in 2011 than their white peers.

In the UK in the 80's and 90's the courts in the UK (and I guess the USA) started treating juveniles as adults and giving them longer sentences... After all house breaking and robbery are just as traumatic if it's done by a 15 year old as a 30 year old, very little thought was given to the mental maturity of the offender.

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While attending law school Chris was employed as the Chief Juvenile Court Officer for Henry County, Alabama, where he was recognized for his work with juvenile ofJuvenile Court Officer for Henry County, Alabama, where he was recognized for his work with juvenile ofjuvenile offenders.

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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.

I've worked for the past ten years in the mental health / counseling field with experienced work in a therapeutic girl's residential facility, mental health rehabilitation agency, alternative school for juvenile offenders, and a college counseling program as a Direct Child Care Attendant, Counselor, Assessor, and Clinical Director.»

Working in various settings, such as adolescent and adult drug and alcohol treatment centers, schools, juvenile offender programs, and practicing in - home family based therapy has allowed me to adapt to many different types of people facing various life stressors.»

When I met Juan in 1989, he was 16 and classified by the Miami police department as a serious habitual juvenile offender.

The large number of female offenders with mental health problems (see the article in this volume by Thomas Grisso), however, combined with the relative scarcity of community - based treatment options (see the article in this volume by Peter Greenwood), suggests that the juvenile justice system is functioning as a source (however ineffective) of otherwise unavailable mental health treatment, especially for girls.

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 well.

As a social worker and unit manager at a state institution for juvenile delinquent boys, the manager of group home for juvenile sex offenders, and a counselor at an alternative learning school, I am very comfortable with and have been very successful working with this population.

A subgroup of youth with conduct disorders includes juvenile sexual offenders; when they remain in the community interventions such as multisystemic family has been found to be helpful in a randomized effectiveness trial.

How Victims Become Offenders Widom & Wilson (2009) In Children as Victims, Witnesses, and Offenders: Psychological Science and the Law View Abstract Presents current knowledge about the relationship between childhood victimization and juvenile offending and examines potential mechanisms whereby abused and neglected children develop from child victims into child and adolescent oOffenders Widom & Wilson (2009) In Children as Victims, Witnesses, and Offenders: Psychological Science and the Law View Abstract Presents current knowledge about the relationship between childhood victimization and juvenile offending and examines potential mechanisms whereby abused and neglected children develop from child victims into child and adolescent oOffenders: Psychological Science and the Law View Abstract Presents current knowledge about the relationship between childhood victimization and juvenile offending and examines potential mechanisms whereby abused and neglected children develop from child victims into child and adolescent offendersoffenders.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Youth recommended for sexual offender treatment were randomly assigned to receive either Multisystemic Therapy (MST) or treatment as usual (TAU), specific to juvenile sexual offenders.

Use the terms psychotherapist, sex therapist, or juvenile sexual offender therapist unless such person is licensed pursuant to this chapter or chapter 490, or is certified under s. 464.012 as an advanced registered nurse practitioner who has been determined by the Board of Nursing as a specialist in psychiatric mental health and the use of such terms is within the scope of her or his practice based on education, training, and licensure.

The book features the Oregon Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Program, which has emerged as an intervention model for chronic juvenile offenders who are already placed out of the home, typically incarcerated in residential treatment facilities.

The intake might also be appropriate when follow - up services are unneeded, in cases like gender identity issues (hormone readiness letters, surgery support letters), bariatric surgery (surgery readiness letters), court - ordered assessments such as likely recidivism in cases like juvenile sex offenders, etc..