The purpose of this article was to improve the post-secondary vocational education curriculum for private security students by focusing on a particular applied skill -- detection of juvenile shoplifters. Educators are tasked with helping students to identify racist beliefs and reduce worldwide organisational racism in the retail industry.…

Background: Mentoring has drawn substantial interest from policymakers, intervention theorists, and those interested in identifying promising and useful evidence-based approaches to interventions for criminal justice and child welfare outcomes (Grossman & Tierney, 1998; Jekliek et al., 2002). Mentoring is one of the most commonly-used…

This study investigated relations among therapist adherence to an evidence-based treatment for youth with serious antisocial behavior (i.e., Multisystemic Therapy), organizational climate and structure, and youth criminal charges on average 4 years posttreatment. Participants were 1,979 youth and families treated by 429 therapists across 45…

America's social and educational system is designed to keep Black masculinity in its imprisoned place in American life. Black juvenile delinquents are trying to overcome this repression. This is illustrated by data collected from one middle school and two high schools. (BJV)