Sentences with phrase «more juvenile delinquency»

Children of divorce are more likely to divorce themselves, and divorce produces other negative consequences as well — more juvenile delinquency, aggression, teen pregnancy, depression, learning difficulties — not the least of which is the loss of childhood and parents and children losing precious time together.

Not exact matches

Their well - intended programs to alleviate juvenile delinquency or ease the burdens of the aged overlook basic truisms: that the human impulse is to achieve; that children, like septuagenarians, respond to need more quickly than to praise; and that do - gooders all too often are egotists seeking applause rather than results.

The sixth feature film of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, «L'Avventura» will probably be even more controversial than its French and Swedish predecessors, which have been conveniently misunderstood as problem tracts of old age, childhood, juvenile delinquency, miscegenation, nuclear warfare, or what have you.

July 4, 2017 • Compared to older siblings, second - born boys are more likely to go to prison, get suspended in school and enter juvenile delinquency.

Slash Film claims «Infinitely Polar Bear» marks Mark Ruffalo's best performance yet and Variety praises Josh Wiggins» feature debut, writing, «More sensitive than sensational, [Kat] Candler's debut doesn't add much in the way of insight to the juvenile delinquency genre, but boasts a stunning breakthrough performance from newcomer Josh Wiggins as the troublemaker in question.»

According to Act 4 Juvenile Justice, for more than 35 years the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) has provided critical federal funding to states to comply with a set of core requirements designed to protect children from the dangers of adult jails and lockups; keep young people safe; keep children charged with status offenses out of locked custody; and address the disparate treatment of youth of color in the justice system.

Some of the more privileged members of Belizean society perceived that increases in juvenile delinquency, crime, and drug use among Belizean urban youth were directly attributable to breakdowns in family structure.

While alluded to in Simon's post, it is worth highlighting that the enactment of what is now Section 163 of the Code occurred in 1949 — more than five years before the much more famous 1955 hearings of the US Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency (England also enacted a «crime comics» prohibition in 1955).

Criticisms of the juvenile system became more public in the United States and Canada after the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court's decision, In re Gault [33], that held juveniles accused of crimes in delinquency proceedings were entitled to due process protections, similar to those available to adults.

In 1999, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimated that there were 2.5 million arrests of juveniles.1 In1997, juvenile courts handled almost 1 800 000 delinquency cases.2 On an average day, more than 106 000 youth are in custody in juvenile facilities.3 Almost60 % of detained youth are African American or Hispanic.3 Moreover, recent changes in the laws, such as mandatory penalties for drug crimes and lowering the age that juveniles can be tried as adults, have resulted in more juveniles serving time than ever before.

Since 2008, the Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has invested more than $ 600 million in youth mentoring grants and research.

Also, while both the cognitive advantage and family support explained impacts on early child outcomes, such as school achievement, family support explained more of the effects on juvenile delinquency and about equally explained the effects on school completion.

This finding is in line with findings of a meta - analysis on effective ingredients of prevention programs for youth at risk for juvenile delinquency, which also showed that preventive interventions of shorter duration were more effective than preventive interventions of longer duration (De Vries et al. 2015).

Studies show children involved in sports have lower rates of obesity and diabetes, do better in school, have lower rates of juvenile delinquency and have more self confidence, he says.