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Download full textHenggeler, Scott W.; Schoenwald, Sonja K. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2011
In a context where more than 1,000,000 American adolescents are processed by juvenile courts annually and approximately 160,000 are sent to residential placements, this paper examines "what works" and "what doesn't work" in reducing the criminal behavior of juvenile offenders and presents examples of government initiatives that have successfully…
Descriptors: Intervention, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency Prevention, Juvenile Courts
Wheeler, Marc E.; Keller, Thomas E.; DuBois, David L. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
Between 2007 and 2009, reports were released on the results of three separate large-scale random assignment studies of the effectiveness of school-based mentoring programs for youth. The studies evaluated programs implemented by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) affiliates (Herrera et al., 2007), Communities In Schools of San Antonio,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Schools, Campuses, Intervention
McCall, Robert B.; Green, Beth L. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2004
Research methods are tools that can be variously applied - depending on the stage of knowledge in a particular area, the type of research question being asked, and the context of the research. The field of program evaluation, critical for social policy development, often has not adequately embraced the full range of methodological tools needed to…
Descriptors: Standards, Intervention, Benchmarking, Evidence Based Practice
Clery, Sue; Topper, Amy – Achieving the Dream, 2007
Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue looks at changes in cohort composition. The analysis addresses the changing composition of the Achieving the Dream student cohorts from 2002 to 2005. The data show that at Achieving the Dream colleges, the percentage of Hispanic students increased over the four cohorts…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grants, Educational Trends, Hispanic American Students
