Sentences with phrase «result of the juvenile delinquency»

Yesterday, a criminal defense attorney in Boston asked me whether, in Massachusetts, a non-citizen youth who breaks the law and who is found delinquent by a juvenile court could end up being deported as a result of the juvenile delinquency finding.

Not exact matches

When sociologists look for causes of child poverty and juvenile delinquency, they link these problems to the incarceration of parents and the resulting economic and emotional strains on families.

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.

For instance, most of the crises in adolescence, particularly in juvenile delinquency, are the result of inner conflicts between ideal behavior and those urges, many of them primitive, which the adolescent seeks to enjoy.

Patterns of prevalence for nonviolent delinquency, self - reported arrests, and official juvenile court delinquency records paralleled the results for violence, although the differences did not achieve statistical significance.

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.

Strengthening America's Families: Effective Family Programs for Prevention of Delinquency Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention & Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Provides results of the 1999 search for best practice family strengthening programs, which are in two - page summaries, as well as a program matrix.

These concepts are no longer in use, although some are nostalgic for their return.10 The current interest in parenting arises as a result of the apparent increase in behavioural problems, child abuse and neglect, juvenile crime, and delinquency.

This site contains the results of a research supported by The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) in 1999.

Cross-sectional and short - term longitudinal studies have demonstrated that physical maltreatment is related to problems that arise in close temporal proximity to the occurrence of the abuse, such as juvenile delinquency, psychopathology, and disrupted social relationships.7, 8 It is not clear from these studies, however, whether early physical maltreatment plays an enduring role in the development of later adjustment problems in adolescence or whether negative outcomes are the temporary result of trauma that will diminish in importance over time.