Sentences with phrase «juvenile offender populations»

Compassionate Case Manager with background in working with substance abuse and juvenile offender populations.

Citing «widespread interest in treating the emerging adult offender group similar to today's juvenile offender population,» Brown's new budget proposes creating a «young adult offender pilot program» at two sites in the state.

Not exact matches

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015 began moving some juvenile offenders to facilities away from the adult prison population.

He previously through executive action began moving 16 and 17 - year - old offenders into juvenile facilities away from the adult population.

With the measure stalled, Cuomo in 2015 moved some juvenile offenders into separate facilities and away from an adult prison population.

This bill would also require the State Board of Education to develop, and each local board of education to adopt, a comprehensive model policy for the supervision and monitoring of low risk juvenile sex offender students attending school with the general student population and would require alternative educational placement for any juvenile sex offender who is a moderate or high risk for re-offense.

The Model Penal Code: Sentencing project provides guidance on some of the most important issues that courts, corrections systems, and policymakers are facing today, including the general purposes of the sentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentence review.

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.

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).