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Beville, Sylvia L.; Nickerson, Carol – 1981
This paper reports on an experiment to test youth employment as a tactic for delinquency prevention. Features of jobs that should cause young people to develop a stake in doing well are described. Three elements of the bond to work that enable the work experience to reduce delinquency are identified: commitment, attachment, and belief. Various…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, Delinquency Prevention, Employment Programs
Download full textGottfredson, Denise C. – 1984
Theory is a useful guide for program design and implementation. This paper uses a large-scale school-based delinquency prevention project to illustrate the use of theory in program design and the need for line staff to have a clear understanding of the program's theoretical underpinnings. Evaluation results for the program show that the program…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Modification, Delinquency Prevention, Discipline Policy
Greenberg, Art; Hunter, Andrea – 1982
The Work as a Topic of Study program is described as a vehicle for making academic study more relevant to the middle school student's future role as a productive worker. Following an argument for maintaining a flexible middle school curriculum which contributes to the social development of students, the five school districts currently…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Class Activities, Delinquency Prevention
Ku, Richard; Blew, Carol H. – 1977
The Urbana-Champaign Adolescent Diversion Project (ADP) involves children, parents, professors, graduate and under-graduate students, policemen, teachers, and community social service workers in a cooperative effort to divert youngsters in legal jeopardy from the juvenile justice system. Its three goals are: (1) to provide juveniles with an…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Community Cooperation, Contingency Management, Counseling Services
A Comparative Analysis of Delinquency Prevention Theory: Preventing Delinquency. Volume One of Nine.
1977
The Task Force to Develop Standards and Goals for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was initiated in the Spring of 1975 by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) of the U.S. Department of Justice. The efforts of this task force resulted in nine reports, each one dealing with one aspect of the Juvenile Justice System. This…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Comparative Analysis, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention
Center for Action Research, Inc., Boulder, CO. – 1976
This publication describes a program of policy research sponsored by the Office of Youth Development, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The purpose is to determine how the federal government can best support state and local community efforts in administering coordinated programs for youth development and delinquency prevention. A…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delinquency Prevention, Delivery Systems, Federal State Relationship
Peer reviewedKatkin, Daniel – Journal of Legal Education, 1974
Argues that significant changes of attitude in the legal and social work professions, have created a convergence of interests that represents the background from which the rationale for a program of interdisciplinary education is to be derived. (Author/KE)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Courts, Curriculum, Curriculum Design
Mobilization for Youth, Inc., New York, NY. – 1965
MOBILIZATION FOR YOUTH (MFY) IS A BROAD, COMMUNITY BASED, NONPROFIT, PRIVATE ORGANIZATION, ATTEMPTING TO REDUCE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK CITY BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR JUVENILES TO BEHAVE AS PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. MFY PROVIDES YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING THROUGH ITS YOUTH JOB CENTER, AN URBAN YOUTH…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Involvement, Delinquency Prevention, Disadvantaged
Hartley, Wynona S. – 1976
The Kansas City School Behavior Project was intended to devise and test the effectiveness of a program of action for the treatment of mild behavioral disturbances in children in the school setting. The program was expected to prevent, to some extent, severe behavioral disturbances among these children in the adolescent years, and to have an effect…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Delinquency Prevention, Followup Studies
Johnson, Grant; And Others – 1979
A summary of desirable and undesirable components of delinquency prevention programs, this paper is intended to help planners, grantmakers, program operators, and others in the development of such programs. Following an introduction, Chapter 2 presents a critical review of contemporary explanations of causes of delinquency and means used to…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Change Strategies, Community Services, Curriculum Development
National Inst. for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC. – 1976
This report presents the national standards for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention developed by the Task Force on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention appointed in April 1975. The standards run the spectrum from guidelines for the police in areas such as preventive patrols, issuance of citations, and interrogation to…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Correctional Rehabilitation, Court Litigation, Delinquency Prevention
Reid, Thomas A.; Garner, Peter W. – 1975
Both courts and police departments have had difficulty in coping with increased juvenile crime. This paper describes a program of collaboration between law enforcement and social services which illustrates a developing trend in the management of youthful offenders. In a suburban Conneticut community (Hamden), the police department regularly…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Migenes, John R.; And Others – 1975
A multi-focal pilot program is described in which the goals of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of delinquent acts are approached via multiple intervention strategies. The primary and secondary prevention strategies are focused on the junior high schools. All school personnel undergo training in those skills which are necessary to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Conferences, Consultation Programs
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (Dept. of Justice), Washington, DC. – 1971
The role of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) is to reduce crime and delinquency by encouraging and assisting states in developing comprehensive plans to fight crime, by providing massive Federal funding to carry out those plans, by undertaking research in law enforcement, and by providing leadership and guidance to state and…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Career Choice, Conferences, Correctional Rehabilitation
Woodworth, Donald G. – 1965
This report deals with three major problem areas--education, employment, and crime--facing the nation and its youth today. Specifically, the report addresses itself to the effects that school attendance laws and child labor laws have on the incidence of youth offenses and delinquency. It was further limited to the investigation of delinquencies in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Labor, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention
