Sentences with phrase «youth on another delinquency»

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In 1955, Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver (David Straithairn) chairs the open televised hearings of the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, to examine the impact of pornography on America's youth.

As a coalition of youth agencies called on the Congress this month to continue the federal programs that deal with juvenile delinquency, a group of academic researchers released a report that appeared to buttress the argument that many federally funded programs designed to combat juvenile delinquency have been successful.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined an intensive mentoring program that focuses on youth deemed at - risk for juvenile delinquency or mental illness [now called Friends for Youth Mentoring Serviyouth deemed at - risk for juvenile delinquency or mental illness [now called Friends for Youth Mentoring ServiYouth Mentoring Services].

Community - based interventions Delinquency - prevention programs in community settings can be created for various purposes such as diverting youth out of the juvenile justice system, serving youth placed on informal or formal probation, or serving youth on parole who are returning to the community after a residential placement.

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.

Wim Meeus and several colleagues report that parental influence on adolescent offending is strongest when an adolescent has no intimate partners; parental support did not influence delinquency for youth who consistently had a romantic partner over the course of the six - year study.88 In another recent study of serious adolescent offenders, girls who self - reported delinquent behavior were more likely to be strongly encouraged in that behavior by their current romantic partner.89 Interestingly, the association between partner encouragement and self - reported offending was strongest among youth reporting warm relationships with their opposite - sex parent.

Permanency Through Collaboration Between Delinquency and Dependency Courts (PDF - 880 KB) National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues, ABA Center on Children and the Law Child CourtWorks, 10 (2), 2008 Describes efforts in Idaho to bridge the gap between child welfare and juvenile justice proceedings to assist youth with cases pending simultaneously in both systems.

Funding for the current study was provided by the Penn State Children, Youth, and Families Consortium and a grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to Centre County Communities That Care ® (CTC).

This multisite randomized controlled trial examines the impact of a 12 - year long professional youth mentoring program, Friends of the Children (FOTC), on boys and girls who were identified during kindergarten as at the highest risk and lowest protection for future problems, including antisocial behavior and delinquency.

«Fast Track Intervention Effects on Youth Arrests and Delinquency.»

Fact: «Although early research suggests that youth living in two - parent biological families fare better on a range of developmental outcomes than those in single - parent or alternative structures (Amato and Keith, 1991), this research typically finds that effects of family structure on developmental outcomes such as delinquency are not strong (Hetherington and Kelly, 2002)... More tangible differences in family dynamics or circumstances — such as supervision practices — are largely responsible when study groups have different outcomes... The highest rates of delinquency were for youth in father - only households, followed by father - stepmother...»

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).

The results indicate that, for both African American and European American youth, low parental control influences delinquency indirectly through its effect on deviant peer affiliation, whereas maternal support has both direct and indirect effects.

Support for the Rochester Youth Development Study and the Rochester Intergenerational Study has been provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (R01CE001572), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2006 - JW - BX - 0074, 86 - JN - CX - 0007, 96 - MU - FX - 0014, 2004 - MU - FX - 0062), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA020195, R01DA005512), the National Science Foundation (SBR - 9123299), and the National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH56486, R01MH63386).

Interventions are drawn from family - focused interventions rated as Model Plus, Model, or Promising on the Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development Web site (http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/) based on evidence of their effectiveness in reducing child externalizing behaviors, substance use, and / or delinquency.