Author: United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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Category : Federal aid to child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Analysis and Evaluation. Federal Juvenile Delinquency Programs
Author: United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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Category : Federal aid to child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Publisher:
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Category : Federal aid to child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reforming Juvenile Justice
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309278937
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309278937
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
First Analysis and Evaluation
Author: United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages :
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Report on Federal Government Programs that Relate to Children, 1979
Author: United States. Federal Interagency Committee for the International Year of the Child
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Publisher:
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
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Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Extension of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-415)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
United States Code
Author: United States
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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Recurring Reports to the Congress
Author: United States. General Accounting Office. Office of Program Analysis
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Describes reports required of executive branch agencies by the Congress on a recurring basis.
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Describes reports required of executive branch agencies by the Congress on a recurring basis.