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Elsa Ribeiro-Silva; Catarina Amorim – Educational Studies, 2024
This project, entitled B-FREE, was designed to develop personal and social skills in adolescents deprived of their liberty. The aim was to facilitate future social inclusion by transforming the participants' behaviour and self-responsibility for their actions, through Physical Education classes based on Hellison's Teaching Personal and Social…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Institutionalized Persons, Juvenile Justice
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Theresa Lydia Badiktsie Manzini – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2020
This qualitative, phenomenological study, explore the support of juvenile offender learners in correctional schools from a spiritual wellness perspective. The study aimed to explore ways in which supporting juvenile offender learners' spiritual wellness can enhance teaching and learning, rehabilitate, and reduce recidivism. Twenty-one juvenile…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Delinquency
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Berkel, Cady; O'Hara, Karey; Eddy, J. Mark; Rhodes, C. Aubrey; Blake, Austin; Thomas, Nalani; Hita, Liza; Herrera, Danita; Wheeler, Alice C.; Wolchik, Sharlene – Prevention Science, 2023
Rates of parental incarceration in the USA have increased dramatically over the past four decades. The Adverse Childhood Experiences study identified parental incarceration as one of several risk factors related to multiple health outcomes during childhood and adulthood. Parents and other caregivers are widely regarded as sources of resilience for…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Parents, Parent Child Relationship
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Marx, Robert – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This qualitative pilot study at a cooperative living facility for young men in the juvenile justice system examined participants' social development following a humane education program. After a course that taught the care, handling, and training of foster dogs, five participants shared their reflections, offering their insights into the ways in…
Descriptors: Males, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Social Development
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Marcum, Travis – Music Educators Journal, 2014
In 2009, there were approximately 137,000 court-involved minor children in residential detention and rehabilitation facilities in the United States as a result of committing a crime. Most of these children have no opportunity to participate in music education while serving long-term sentences in residential lockdown. A program in Austin, Texas,…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency
Lorett Sturgill Swank – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This purpose of this research is to examine the critical issue of intimate partner violence and to explore a how non-battering "well-meaning men" can help to end this violence against women. Domestic violence has been primarily considered a women's issue, and current efforts to prevent this violence have been led mostly by women. In…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Institutionalized Persons, Adult Learning
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Connors, Angela D.; Mills, Jeremy F.; Gray, Andrew L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The following study is an evaluation of the Moderate Intensity Family Violence Prevention Program (MIFVPP). The sample consisted of 298 male federal offenders who participated in the MIFVPP while incarcerated or on release within the community. Participants were assessed pre-, mid-, and postprogram using an assessment battery consisting of…
Descriptors: Prevention, Institutionalized Persons, Family Violence, Program Evaluation
Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Anzelone, Caitlin; Dechausay, Nadine; Datta, Saugato; Fiorillo, Alexandra; Potok, Louis; Darling, Matthew; Balz, John – MDRC, 2014
The Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project is the first major opportunity to use a behavioral economics lens to look at programs that serve poor and vulnerable people in the United States. Sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the U.S.…
Descriptors: Poverty, At Risk Persons, Social Services, Program Effectiveness
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Berridge, Gina; Goebel, Vella – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore the beliefs and perceptions of some of the stakeholders directly involved in a GED® program located in a county jail. The researchers investigated the perspectives of the jail's Chief of Programming, GED® supervisor, teachers, and inmates participating in the program. Although gathering data from the…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Devlin, Renee S.; Gibbs, John C. – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2010
This article examined cognitive and behavioral changes among participants in Responsible Adult Culture (RAC), a cognitive-behavioral (especially, cognitive restructuring) treatment program in use at the Franklin County Community-Based Correctional Facility (CBCF). Participants were adult felony offenders (approximately three-fourths male). A…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Change, Correctional Institutions, Adults
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Robertson, Angela R.; St. Lawrence, Janet; Morse, David T.; Baird-Thomas, Connie; Liew, Hui; Gresham, Kathleen – Health Education & Behavior, 2011
Adolescent girls incarcerated in a state reformatory (N = 246) were recruited and assigned to an 18-session health education program or a time-equivalent HIV prevention program. Cohorts were assigned to conditions using a randomized block design separated by a washout period to reduce contamination. Post intervention, girls in the HIV risk…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Intervention, Health Education, Females
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Kwon, Okyun; Camp, Scott D.; Daggett, Dawn M.; Klein-Saffran, Jody – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2010
Although faith-based correctional programming has become increasingly popular in recent years, offenders' motivation to participate and the impact on prison adjustment have received little attention. Analyzing interview data of 83 participants of the Federal Bureau of Prison's faith-based correctional program, this study explored the different…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Content Analysis, Correctional Education
Association for Experiential Education (NJ1), 2011
The most recent figures place the number of juvenile arrests in the United States at 2.11 million. (OJJDP, 2009). In some states, children as young as 10 years old are incarcerated for violent offenses. Crowded juvenile facilities are often unable to meet the needs of these large numbers of youth. The cost to treat offenders within long-term…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Therapy, Adventure Education
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Hurd, Noelle M.; Valerio, Melissa A.; Garcia, Nicole M.; Scott, Anthony A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2010
This study examined the effectiveness of an adapted 4-session HIV prevention program. Participants included 490 adolescents who participated in either the 8- or the adapted 4-session HIVEd program. Analyses to identify mean changes in HIV-related knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and behavioral intentions between participants in either the 4-…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Adolescents
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Gonzalez, Patricia; Romero, Tony; Cerbana, Christine B. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2007
One of the primary goals of correctional education is to reduce recidivism by reintegrating inmates into society and family in a productive and positive manner and, in the case of parent education, become good and effective parents to their children. Research suggests that prison parent education programs provide inmates with measurable knowledge…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Mothers, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions
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