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Download full textOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquent Prevention (Dept. of Justice), Washington, DC. – 1996
The Youth Environmental Service (YES) aims to rehabilitate adjudicated delinquents and to prevent at-risk youth from entering the juvenile justice system by engaging them in environmental work and education programs on federally owned land. YES is a joint program of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Cooperative Programs, Delinquency Prevention, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Murray, Mary E.; Guerra, Nancy G.; Williams, Kirk R. – 1997
The United States is recognized as leading the industrialized world in violent death rates. The increase in youth violence is primarily attributable to an increase in the "lethality" and not the "frequency" of violent acts because more crimes are being committed with handguns. This chapter reviews the existing literature on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Health, Children
