This Digest examines some of the ways that truancy affects both individuals and society. It identifies factors that may place students at greater risk of becoming truant and lists some consequences of nonattendance, including delayed promotion and graduation, lowered self-esteem, and lessened employment potential. The causes of truancy vary among…

This report summarizes what is known about the children of incarcerated parents in California. The report estimates the number of children in California who have parents in the state's criminal justice system (jail, prison, parole, and probation) and summarizes key findings from the research literature on the impact of parental arrest and…

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention?s (OJJDP?s) intensive community based aftercare research and demonstration project known as the Intensive Aftercare Program (IAP) has become widely recognized as one of the most promising recent innovations in juvenile justice. The project has called attention to an area that traditionally…

Huckleberry House for runaways recognizes that its clients are in crisis but follows the notion that crisis can be creative. (DM)

Author provides a lucid and informative insight into the problems of today's youth and the hope they must generate. (RK)

Concentrating on eighteen-to-nineteen-year-old white and nonwhite males, this study utilizes a model permitting alternative partitioning of the population, classified by labor-market status, which links individual subsets to property crime. Concludes that economic opportunity is a key factor in generating youthful crime. (RJ)

Emphasizes the importance of viewing behavior within the social context to distinguish the pathological from the normal adaptive reaction to the special position of the adolescent in our society.'' (Author/SP)

Analyzes the different categories of drug abuse and the patterns of drug use in the United States with emphasis on youth involvement with drugs. (RK)

Critics have placed the primary blame for violence on the streets and in the schools upon the schools. It is, as the author contends, a total community problem. (Editor/CB)

Speech presented at Joint Session of American School Health Association and School Health Section, American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, 1969. Delves into spectrum of issues involved in sex education in the schools. Teachers of sex education need to know implications of what they are doing for the individual and society. (EK)

The author, a member of the Israeli Ministry of Education andCulture, discusses educational relevance in relation to several youth projects and institutions. (JM)

Stresses interrelationship among doctors, local prosecutors, law enforcement agencies, superintendents of schools, school nurses, and members of the school faculty in dealing effectively with drug abuse. (KJ)

Outlines a structured interview process to help school counselors deal with pregnant adolescent students. The process includes developing rapport, aspects of legality and confidentiality, affective empathy, directive versus nondirective approaches, gathering background information and considering alternatives. (JAC)