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The Second Edition of Preventing and Reducing Juvenile Delinquency: A Comprehensive Framework aims to inform students about the latest research and the most promising and effective programs and provides a wealth of information for understanding, preventing and controlling juvenile delinquency. Key Features
- Examines the history of current juvenile justice system policies and practices, including the juvenile violence “epidemic”
- Discusses key myths about juvenile violence and the ability of the juvenile justice system to handle modern-day juvenile delinquents
- Applies developmental theories of juvenile delinquency to understanding how juvenile offender careers evolve
- Reviews effective prevention and rehabilitation programs and what does not work
- Presents a comprehensive framework for building a continuum of effective programs
Intended Audience: This is an ideal supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate courses in juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, and violent offender intervention courses. It is also essential reading for juvenile justice and social services research and development specialists.
What Doesn't Work in Preventing and Reducing Juvenile Delinquency
What Doesn't Work in Preventing and Reducing Juvenile Delinquency
Thanks to the voluminous increase in the number of program evaluations in the past couple of decades, evidence is accumulating that some prevention and intervention strategies and programs simply do not work with juvenile offenders. I address many of the strategies and programs that do not work in the first main section of this chapter and then discuss the evidence to date on many others for which the research findings are unclear, contradictory, or nonexistent. I discuss a particularly ineffective strategy in some detail in the next chapter: the failed policy of transferring juveniles to the criminal justice system.
Ineffective Prevention Approaches
D.A.R.E
I begin this section with a discussion of ...
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