Sentences with phrase «juvenile offenders»

Meeting the mental health needs of juvenile offenders is one of the most important issues affecting juvenile justice systems across the nation.

Different court processes apply for juvenile offender with a focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment.

If you're a minor criminal or juvenile offender in an Iranian city, a judge may let you buy and read five book instead of going to jail.

Juvenile offenders with behavioral disorders, learning disabilities and no disabilities: Self - reports of personal, family and school characteristics.

Comparison of two community alternatives to incarceration for chronic juvenile offenders.

The role of group therapy and the therapeutic community in treating the violent juvenile offender.

The program is open to juvenile offenders from 13 to 17 years of age.

Some states have different requirements for various categories of children; i.e., those who need mental - health guidance and counseling, those with backgrounds as juvenile offenders, etc..

The prevention of violent behavior by chronic and serious male juvenile offenders: A 2 - year follow - up of a randomized clinical trial.

, has been an enthusiastic supporter of getting tough on juvenile offenders, particularly those who commit violent offenses.

It used to be that legal records about juvenile offenders were among the most confidential of documents.

A study of 109 juvenile offenders indicated that family structure significantly predicts delinquency.

Critics say juvenile offenders have better outcomes when they're placed in age - appropriate facilities with the right support programs.

It takes juvenile offenders and, depending on the severity of their crime, places them in locations with varying levels of security throughout the five boroughs.

More than 100 juvenile offenders remain under sentence of death.

Do the groups of normal youngsters and groups of residential juvenile offenders differ from each other with respect to their attitude to social limits (criterion validity)?

Researchers estimate that 52 percent of juvenile offenders have an attachment disorder or borderline attachment disorder.

How will this affect education programs, help for juvenile offenders, city hospitals, and affordable housing?

Juvenile offenders with mental health problems are more likely to continue to experience justice system involvement.

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

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

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an intensive family and community - based treatment for serious juvenile offenders with possible substance abuse issues and their families.

Earlier this month Queens Family Court Judge John Hunt called the governor's initiative to move juvenile offenders from state run facilities into New York City programs that are obviously unequipped to handle them «a threat to public safety» after court documents exposed repeated failures with the program, including a lack of security so bad that youthful offenders were able to walk away at will.

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.

This was a second randomized controlled trial of chronic female juvenile offenders in Oregon who had been mandated by juvenile courts to receive out - of - home care due to chronic delinquency, and who had consented to study participation.

While most juvenile offenders are held in county jails, not state prisons, officials from the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association said there are roughly 100 16 - and 17 - year - old inmates in state prisons at any given time.

In addition, PPC has been found to reduce recidivism as well as the delinquent values of juvenile offenders while increasing self esteem (Michigan Department of Social Services, 1983; Wasmund, 1980 a, 1980b).

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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.

Then McDonough, who holds a degree in paralegal studies, went a step further — she researched and drafted a law which would make parents of repeat juvenile offenders subject to criminal penalties.

I am aware of some leading recent state court Eighth Amendment rulings in states like California and Florida and Iowa, all of which had to swiftly and directly confront the import and impact of the Graham ruling for a number of juvenile offenders serving very long prison terms for nonhomicide offenses.

Clinical Experience: Froedert Hospital, The Medical College of Wisconsin; VA Medical Center, Milwaukee; Marquette University Counseling Center; The Counseling Center of Milwaukee; St. Charles Youth and Family Agency, Wrap Around Milwaukee, First Time Juvenile Offenders Program

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

Religious leaders say they have written to Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to raise the age of criminal responsibility so fewer juvenile offenders end up in adult prisons.

More than 200 members of the clergy from around New York state are writing to urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to raise the age of criminal responsibility so fewer juvenile offenders end up in adult prisons.

A former juvenile offender with a history of family violence, Rizzo turned his life around with the help of a teacher and mentor.

«This is further evidence that the state's current policy for dealing with juvenile offenders not only isn't working, it's putting staff at risk» said CSEA President Danny Donohue.

But they have been reluctant to approve a number of the governor's items, including further raising the minimum wage, and upping the age for when juvenile offenders are put into state prisons.

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

Governor said he will offer a bill that would allow juvenile offenders to be publicly identified and their criminal records opened to the public.

In the original study, 79 male juvenile offenders ages 12 to 18 who had been designated for out - of - home placement by the juvenile court were randomly assigned to two conditions: (1) placement in Treatment Foster Care (TFC) or (2) placement in other community group care programs.

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

The Stop Solitary for Kids campaign was amassed to play a short - and long - game approach to curbing the use of solitary confinement on incarcerated juvenile offenders.

There is debate on how it should apply to juvenile offenders source

CANTON — With plans to build a youth detention center in St. Lawrence County stalled, officials have submitted a plan to the state to deal with expected uptick in juvenile offenders focusing on alternatives to incarceration.

Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross reports that the Parker - Diaz Sr. blow - up occurred when the Bronx senator joined Sen. Carl Kruger in voting «no» on Sen. Velmanette Montgomery's juvenile offenders bill, which caused the measure to be pulled from the floor before it was officially declared dead.

A state panel has recommended a phased - in increase of the age of criminal responsibility and other reforms to address juvenile offenders in a...

The state's top administrative law judge testified to state lawmakers on Tuesday that the court system can handle the shift in juvenile offenders out of criminal court, part of the raise the age push in Albany.