Sentences with phrase «risk of juvenile delinquency»

Scores for externalization (the ability to express feelings, especially negative feelings), a trait associated with risk of juvenile delinquency, academic failure, and inadequate social adjustment, were 20 percent lower in the KMC group on average.

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The Erie County Probation Department also provides assistance to parents and guardians raising children who are at risk of penetrating the criminal justice system through our Family Services and Juvenile Delinquency Services Teams.

Among the specific programs are those funded through JJDPA's Title V, the only federal program that provides delinquency prevention funding at the local level to reach youth at risk and help keep them out of the juvenile justice system.

Unfortunately, many American Indian youth end up in the juvenile justice system because they are exposed to risk factors that increase their chances of becoming involved in delinquency.

According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), three critical elements are necessary to counter risk factors in a young person's life:

Developmental and risk factors of juvenile antisocial behavior and delinquency, Clinical Psychology Review, 10 (l), 41.

Students who have learning disabilities and are instead, at risk of ignoring their problems, giving up -LRB-(Núñez et al., 2005, Lackaye, Margalit, Ziv & Ziman, 2006) and experiencing negative life outcomes such as depression (Sideris, 2007), school dropout (Deschler, 2005), social isolation (Bryan, Burstein, & Ergul, 2004), juvenile delinquency (Svetaz, Ireland & Blum, 2000), and unemployment (Prior, 1996).

In CJJ's 2001 report to the President, Congress, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, «Abandoned in the Back Row: New Lessons in Education and Delinquency Prevention,» we pinpointed specific strategies and qualities of supportive school settings serving low income and at - risk populations.

The Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) envisions a nation where fewer children are at risk of delinquency; and if they are at risk or involved with the justice system, they and their families receive every possible opportunity to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives.

Obama must know, or should know, that the «father deficit» is the single most reliable predictor for children's diminished self - esteem, behavioural problems, poor grades and truancy, early school dropout, juvenile delinquency (85 % of youth in prison have an absent father), gang membership, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, risk of sexual abuse, substance abuse and homelessness.

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).

We also investigated whether the moderating effect of gender was comparable in the high - risk sample for juvenile delinquency and the general population sample.

The high - risk sample for juvenile delinquency was recruited from 38 welfare and juvenile justice institutions from the German speaking part of Switzerland.

The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between psychopathic traits and self - reported non-violent and violent offenses in a high - risk sample for juvenile delinquency as well as in a general population sample and how gender influences this relationship.

However, up till now the vast majority of research on psychopathic traits and delinquent behavior has focused on high - risk samples for juvenile delinquency [7].

Gaining greater understanding of associations between psychopathic traits and delinquent behavior in a high - risk sample for juvenile delinquency as well as in a general population sample is essential for developing effective intervention strategies.