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Direct linkLane, Jodi; Turner, Susan; Fain, Terry; Sehgal, Amber – Crime & Delinquency, 2005
In 1996, California provided funding to 14 county probation agencies to implement multiagency, comprehensive services to keep troubled youths from recommitting crime and progressing farther into the justice system. We report results of a randomized experiment used to evaluate Ventura County's 4-year demonstration project called the South Oxnard…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Demonstration Programs, Agency Cooperation, Counties
Download full textSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. – 1995
Law enforcement officials know the devastation that drinking can cause among the immature and the inexperienced. This guide is intended to be used by law enforcement agencies in cooperation with other segments of the community. It provides an overview of the problem of youth access to alcohol, a discussion of the legal and policy issues relating…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Community Action, Community Programs
Elias, Maurice J. – 1996
There is a great deal of rhetoric concerning the prevention of violence and related problems faced by youth. A conference speech, this document advocates that rhetoric must be replaced by an examination of available data and experience with school-based prevention programs. This is especially important in light of a growing emphasis on "Safe…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Delinquency Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention
Gotfredson, Gary D.; And Others – 1983
This report, prepared by the Delinquency and School Environments Program, describes further interim results of the program's national evaluation of the Alternative Education Program of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). The report is directed primarily to project implementers and to the OJJDP and is organized in two…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency Prevention, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
Schlossman, Steven; And Others – 1984
This report examines the Chicago Area Project (CAP), the first community-based delinquency prevention program, from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. The analysis is in three parts. The first part describes CAP's founding in the 1930s and analyzes the process through which it was established and the operation of its prevention…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delinquency Causes, Delinquency Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education
Truckenmiller, James L. – 1982
The former HEW (Health, Education, and Welfare) National Strategy for Youth Development Model proposed a community-based program to promote positive youth development and to prevent delinquency through a sequence of youth needs assessments, needs-targeted programs, and program impact evaluation. HEW Community Program Impact Scales data obtained…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Alienation, Community Programs
American School Board Journal, 1974
Vandal Watch is a program in which families, who live in mobile homes adjacent to school buildings, respond to buzzes from electronic sensors wired to the trailer and report unexpected sounds or sights within the school. (WM)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Cost Effectiveness, Delinquency Prevention, Electronic Control
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
These proceedings of the Subcommittee on Human Resources deal with the effectiveness of juvenile restitution programs and review the progress made by a number of such federally funded programs during the past 2 years. Testimony is presented that includes the experiences of four juvenile participants in restitution programs and several project…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cost Effectiveness, Court Litigation, Delinquency Prevention
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1981
This record of the Senate Juvenile Justice Subcommittee hearing concerns the problem of violent juvenile crime. Opening statements by subcommittee members are followed by testimonies from three panels of witnesses. The first panel presents statements by the founder of the Guardian Angels, the director of the House of Umoga, a home for juvenile…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Crime Prevention, Delinquency
FELTON, JOSEPH B. – 1963
THIS PAPER STATES THAT THE JUVENILE COURT IS RELATIVELY NEW IN AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE, THE FIRST ONE HAVING BEEN ESTABLISHED IN 1899. UNIFORM STANDARDS WERE DEVELOPED IN 1923 AND HAVE BEEN REVISED FIVE TIMES SINCE, BUT ADOPTION INTO STATE LAWS HAS BEEN SLOW. PHILOSOPHY OF THE JUVENILE COURT IS PERSONALIZED AND INDIVIDUALIZED JUSTICE. TO CARRY OUT…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Court Doctrine, Court Litigation, Court Role
Kaplan, Michael H., Ed.; Galbreath, Diane, Ed. – 1979
A result of efforts to initiate dialogue between representatives of the Community Education Program in the United States Office of Education and the Department of Justice, this conference took place in March of 1978. Professionals from many youth-oriented fields attended. Conference objectives included initiating dialogue among those concerned…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Education, Community Programs, Conference Reports
Boggs, Keith – 1978
The training manual of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is intended for personnel involved with Youth Service Bureaus and other diversion projects which provide direct services to delinquent or predelinquent youths with the hope of preventing initial or further involvement with the juvenile justice system. Section…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Curriculum Design, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention
Pooley, Richard – 1977
The purpose of this review was to assess the program's organization and management and to determine what improvements, if any, were needed. The report focused on five major areas: (1) organization structure and management process; (2) personnel development; (3) client treatment; (4) financial management; and (5) facilities. An analysis of unit…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Community Services, Correctional Education, Delinquency Prevention
Chisholm, Shirley – 1978
In this address, Congresswoman Chisholm criticizes the Federal youth policy and the low priority with which youth service programs are regarded by the Congress. The Congresswoman's efforts on issues affecting youth, and particularly juvenile delinquency, have been guided by her belief that there is a lack of Federal programs and agencies which…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Delinquency, Delinquency Causes, Delinquency Prevention
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1973
The Task Force on the Resolution of Conflict was given the responsibility of examining the extent and nature of conflict and violence in high schools in California. To carry out that responsibility, the task force sought to identify factors which could contribute to tension-provoking and conflict-producing situations and to identify those plans…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Conflict
