MacArthur Foundation grant addresses Jefferson Parish youth incarceration ratesRichard A. Webster
with state and local, prison administrators, juvenile justice advocates and child welfare organizations, this $85,000, two-year grant funds a unique program providing conflict resolution education to children of parents who are currently in prison or returning home after a period of incarceration. ...
Some symptoms could be a reaction to incarceration. Moreover, our rates might differ somewhat if we had been able to use DSM-IV instead of DSM-III-R criteria. Our findings, drawn from only one site, may pertain only to youth in urban detention centers with similar demographic composition. ...
research slowly transformed into studying the impacts of mass incarceration, using familial incarceration as a predictor of youth crime [270,271,272,273]. While this literature is profound, it is argued that current understandings are narrow. For example, Chalfin and Deza examined the intergenerati...
; hormone therapy/hormone therapy counseling; post-incarceration or parole services; child care, or other services (which youth specified and interviewers recorded as open ended text). Other responses were recoded to listed options when appropriate. Given the diversity of youth and their needs, we ...
This way, we move beyond solely analyzing the way that school personnel or punitive behavioral policies accelerate youth towards incarceration and deportation, although we understand the importance of these policies in undocumented youth’s process of criminalization. More specifically, we assert that ...
Some Indigenous groups and leaders have backed the action as a necessary circuit-breaker, but others say what local children need is support, not more policing in a country with a low age of criminal responsibility and high rates of incarceration for Indigenous you...
Interpersonal firearm violence is disproportionately borne by young Black men, who are also subject to mass incarceration. Therefore, Black youth living in poverty are indirectly harmed as they often living in homes where fathers have been killed or incarcerated.54 Black men are by far the most ...
These findings, in combination with the identified gaps in the sciences on children of justice-involved parents [7], provide a great rationale for the development of machine learning to specifically locate children with a history of parental incarceration. The first step to validating a machine ...
Given the promise of whole-school interventions in mitigating the escalating rates of mental disorders and risk behaviours among adolescents, the aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of these interventions in improving outcomes comprising positive mental health, mental disorders, substance ...