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- Title
- DETERRENTS TO DELINQUENCY AS PERCEIVED BY DELINQUENTS AND NON-DELINQUENTS: A STUDY.
- Creator
- ROESCH, SHARON HOUSTON, Florida Atlantic University
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The problem: The purpose of this study was to identify factors serving as deterrents to juvenile crime as perceived by juveniles. An emphasis was placed on the identification of factors which youth perce ive as: 1) having prevented non-delinquent adolescents from breaking the law; 2) deterrents which may have prevented delinquent adolescents from breaking the law. Questions to be answered and explored in this study were: 1) How do police and judicial efforts affect juvenile crime? 2) What can...
Show moreThe problem: The purpose of this study was to identify factors serving as deterrents to juvenile crime as perceived by juveniles. An emphasis was placed on the identification of factors which youth perce ive as: 1) having prevented non-delinquent adolescents from breaking the law; 2) deterrents which may have prevented delinquent adolescents from breaking the law. Questions to be answered and explored in this study were: 1) How do police and judicial efforts affect juvenile crime? 2) What can the school do in the area of prevention of crime? 3) What effect, if any, do the family and/or significant others have in deterring juvenile crime? 4) How do free time and/or planned activities influence juveniles in crime involvement or non-involvement? Conclusions and Recommendations: There are three major consequences recommended by the findings of the juveniles' own stated opinions: l) monetary compensation to be rendered either by parents or through parental channels. 2) exposure, or some type of resultant publicity for juveniles found guilty of crimes. 3) reparation through a program of supervised work. Related recommendations include: l) Any act of violence or vandalism should be dealt with according to previously stated policy so that each member of the school community may abide by the policy with previous knowledge of consequences. 2) Whatever policy is promulgated, and however it is administered, it must be consistently and uniformly applied.
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- 1976
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11666
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile delinquency
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A COMPARISON OF THREE DELINQUENCY PREVENTION ALTERNATIVES FOR JUVENILE STATUS OFFENDERS.
- Creator
- NEWLAND, GEORGE., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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From the files of the Palm Beach county Florida juvenile court, a sample of 75 juveniles was drawn having the following characteristics: (1) First offender, with no prior petitions for delinquency or status offenses, (2) Charged on a petition of status offenses (truancy, running away, ungovernable) in 1976, 1977, 1978. (3) Under age 16 at date of initial petition for status offenses. A matched sample of status offenders was drawn from the Palm Beach County Youth Service Bureau, (YSB) a county...
Show moreFrom the files of the Palm Beach county Florida juvenile court, a sample of 75 juveniles was drawn having the following characteristics: (1) First offender, with no prior petitions for delinquency or status offenses, (2) Charged on a petition of status offenses (truancy, running away, ungovernable) in 1976, 1977, 1978. (3) Under age 16 at date of initial petition for status offenses. A matched sample of status offenders was drawn from the Palm Beach County Youth Service Bureau, (YSB) a county government agency independent of the justice system and providing a variety of services to youths and their families on a noncoercive, voluntary basis, with referrals primarily from parents and the public schools. YSB clientele were predominantly status offenders but also represented a broad spectrum of problems including delinquency, school problems, emotional problems and dependency. Period of YSB service normally was under 3 months, averaging about 11 hours of service provided. A third sample of status offenders was drawn from Sabal Palm Youth Service Center, (YSC), a community-based, county government, residential institution, formerly a commitment home, but now primarily serving status offenders in a program averaging 4 to 6 months for completion. An attempt was made to match all 3 groups as closely as possible on the variables of race, sex, age and time at risk. Juvenile court records were checked on the 3 groups on the dependent variable of subsequent arrest or referral for delinquency, i.e. crime, after completion of "treatment" by one of the 3 methods. Overall, the YSB group had the least subsequent delinquency, (21%), the Sabal Palm YSC the most (47%); with the juvenile court group intermediate (37%). However, as had been suggested by reviewed research, the differences between the juvenile court and YSC groups were not statistically significant. Differences between the YSB and the other two groups were significant, and continued to be so when the data were adjusted to compensate for a longer mean time at risk period for the YSC sample. The findings were concluded to lend support to both labeling and deterrence perspectives, but alternative explanations were suggested as equally applicable. Considering such concepts as diversion, labeling and deterrence theories and decriminalization of status offenses, it was concluded that modes of treatment for status offenders can affect future delinquency rates. Need for more sophisticated research was cited. Recommendation for increased development of noncoercive, independent youth service bureaus was made as they were seen as more likely to reduce subsequent crime among status offenders than juvenile court or institutionalization.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1980
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11748
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile delinquency--Prevention
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- DIRECT SERVICE PROVIDERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE ROLE OF SPIRITUALITY AMONG MALES IMPACTED BY THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM.
- Creator
- Hill-Thompson, Katina R., Cooley, Morgan, Florida Atlantic University, School of Social Work, College of Social Work and Criminal Justice
- Abstract/Description
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Delinquency is a major social and public health problem for families, young people themselves, and law enforcement agencies, and it is a threat to public safety. Juveniles often present with multiple issues during arrest, such as mental illness, substance abuse, low socio-economic status, family dysfunction, academic problems, and poor peer relationships. One of these justice-involved youths more prevalent mental health issues is conduct disorders (CD). Research has shown that 50%-90% of...
Show moreDelinquency is a major social and public health problem for families, young people themselves, and law enforcement agencies, and it is a threat to public safety. Juveniles often present with multiple issues during arrest, such as mental illness, substance abuse, low socio-economic status, family dysfunction, academic problems, and poor peer relationships. One of these justice-involved youths more prevalent mental health issues is conduct disorders (CD). Research has shown that 50%-90% of justice-involved youth are diagnosed with CD. Growing research supports the integration of spirituality into professional social work practice. This study aims to bring awareness that spirituality is essential to these justice-involved youths’ lives through the lived experiences of Direct Service Providers. This study aimed to understand better programming designed to meet the spiritual needs of juveniles with CD who were in juvenile residential treatment programs. This study examined the following questions: RQ1: How do DSPs describe the current spirituality programming offered to juveniles diagnosed with Conduct Disorder (CD) who are in a juvenile residential treatment facility? RQ2: What recommendations do DSPs have for enhancing programming to better meet juveniles’ spiritual needs? A cross-sectional qualitative research study utilized a thematic analysis to explore DSP’s perceptions of the role of spirituality in the lives of juveniles diagnosed with CD and impacted by juvenile justice services. This study’s results showed spirituality was critical and impactful to the lives of justice-involved youth. It also demonstrated the usefulness of Fisher’s four-domain model in assessing spirituality in justice-involved youth. This study concluded six primary themes from the analysis. The researcher deductively coded the first two themes to explore the research questions in this manuscript. The last four themes resulted from inductive coding of the interviews: (a) programming and resources available to youth (RQ1); (b) recommendations for enhancing spirituality programming and resources for youth (RQ2); (c) viewing spirituality as religion; (d) support for religion and spirituality for youth; (e) facilitators to youths’ spiritual development; and (f) barriers to youths’ spiritual development.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014319
- Subject Headings
- Crime, Juvenile delinquency, Spirituality, Crimininology
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION VERSUS GROUP INSTRUCTION ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND SELF-CONCEPT OF INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS.
- Creator
- MAYER, ELIZABETH EDMONDSON., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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This study evaluated the effectiveness of an individualized instructional program and traditional groupteacher instruction with incarcerated youthful offenders. The experimental group was composed of subjects being instructed in an Individualized Manpower Training System learning center who were incarcerated at two youthful offender institutions. The control group was composed of subjects who were being instructed in a teacher-group setting at two other youthful offender institutions. The...
Show moreThis study evaluated the effectiveness of an individualized instructional program and traditional groupteacher instruction with incarcerated youthful offenders. The experimental group was composed of subjects being instructed in an Individualized Manpower Training System learning center who were incarcerated at two youthful offender institutions. The control group was composed of subjects who were being instructed in a teacher-group setting at two other youthful offender institutions. The effectiveness of the programs was evaluated by examining the achievement and self-concept of the subjects. The subjects were given a pre-test followed by a post-test ten months later. The differences were analyzed with analysis of covariance. The measurement instruments used were the California Achievement Test, level 3, and the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale. The study measured whether there was a significant relationship between achievement and self-concept for all subjects. Then achievement and self-concept of the treatment group and the control group were compared for each group separately. The evaluation was carried one step farther by sub-dividing the two groups of subjects by race. This procedure allowed for an evaluation of whether or not the instructional mode, or treatment, exerted a significant influence on the academic achievement and/or self-concept of blacks and/or whites. The conclusions indicated that the IMTS instructional program has some contributions to make toward the increase in achievement and self-concept of the subjects. When the results were broken down by race, however, the treatment did not appear to have a significant influence on race as separate groups.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1981
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11775
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--Florida, Juvenile corrections--Florida
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Academic and demographic variables as predictors of gang activity in school.
- Creator
- Thornton, Linda H., Florida Atlantic University, Morris, John D., Gray, Mary B.
- Abstract/Description
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A two-group predictive discriminant analysis was used to develop a model to predict youth gang activity among students in an urban school district in south central United States. The predictors were selected from age, race, gender, grade repeats, reading comprehension achievement test scores, and changes in school and school district (uprootedness). Data were obtained from elementary school records of 285 grade nine students (151 male and 134 female) in two junior high schools. Ethnic...
Show moreA two-group predictive discriminant analysis was used to develop a model to predict youth gang activity among students in an urban school district in south central United States. The predictors were selected from age, race, gender, grade repeats, reading comprehension achievement test scores, and changes in school and school district (uprootedness). Data were obtained from elementary school records of 285 grade nine students (151 male and 134 female) in two junior high schools. Ethnic minorities comprised 75.4% of the sample. Gang involvement data were provided by the school district security department. Data were analyzed using SPSS-X and a FORTRAN computer program by Morris and Meshbane (1995). All possible subsets of predictor variables were examined using leave-one-out cross-validation accuracy estimates. Although no models classified both gang and nongang students with greater accuracy than proportional chance expectations, a model consisting of gender, grade repeats, and school and school district changes (uprootedness) yielded significant classification accuracy for gang students, (z = 12.07, p <.05).
Show less - Date Issued
- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12429
- Subject Headings
- Gangs--United States, Juvenile delinquency, School violence
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Evolution of General Strain Theory: A Comprehensive Review and Test of Robert Agnew’s 2002 Extension.
- Creator
- Davidowitz, Krystal, Arneklev, Bruce J., Florida Atlantic University, College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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This thesis provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of Robert Agnew’s General Strain Theory of Delinquency, and tests his 2002 extension using two subsamples from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Juveniles between 12 and 17, and “emerging” adults that are 18 years old. Including an “emerging” adult subsample makes this analysis one of the first full tests of adults. Additionally, this analysis is the first partial test of Agnew’s 2013 extension of General Strain...
Show moreThis thesis provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of Robert Agnew’s General Strain Theory of Delinquency, and tests his 2002 extension using two subsamples from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Juveniles between 12 and 17, and “emerging” adults that are 18 years old. Including an “emerging” adult subsample makes this analysis one of the first full tests of adults. Additionally, this analysis is the first partial test of Agnew’s 2013 extension of General Strain Theory. Overall, the results of the analysis lend support to Agnew’s 2002 extension. Measures of strain are revealed to significantly effect measures of negative emotionality and low selfconstraint, and measures of negative emotionality and low self-constraint significantly affect delinquency/deviance and illicit substance use. A major limitation to the thesis is that there is no negative emotionality measure of anger, which is Agnew’s (1985; 1992) key measures of negative emotionality.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004871, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004871
- Subject Headings
- Agnew, Robert--1953---Juvenile delinquency--Criticism and interpretation., Juvenile delinquency., Crime--Sociological aspects., Criminal behavior--Social aspects., Criminal psychology.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Struggles from outside and within the bars of the juvenile justice system: Role conflict of health care delivery.
- Creator
- Kite, Gayle., Florida Atlantic University, Maslin-Ostrowski, Patricia
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Currently, the nation is plagued with multiple social problems. Violence is the nation's top public health concern. President Clinton has attempted to address the nation's health care crisis without success. State nursing associations are concerned with unlicensed health care being rendered in the national system; this has caused divisions of the professions. All of these problems can be found in the setting of juvenile corrections. Inmates are the only group in this nation who have a...
Show moreCurrently, the nation is plagued with multiple social problems. Violence is the nation's top public health concern. President Clinton has attempted to address the nation's health care crisis without success. State nursing associations are concerned with unlicensed health care being rendered in the national system; this has caused divisions of the professions. All of these problems can be found in the setting of juvenile corrections. Inmates are the only group in this nation who have a constitutional right to healthcare. In Sunshine County (fictitious name), Florida, corrections staff, not licensed healthcare givers, are rendering most of the health care. This study describes the views and experiences of unlicensed corrections staff concerning their roles when rendering health care. Data sources included 43 unlicensed corrections workers from four juvenile corrections facilities, as well as the participation of five licensed professionals. Nine findings emerged: lethargy, caring, role stress and frustration, role conflict, multiple system failure, fear, communication, knowledge deficit and facility observations. About half the corrections staff approached their positions in a caring manner. Roles were filled with conflict and stress. Many of the corrections staff believed they were educationally unprepared for role fulfillment. Yet, corrections staff were lethargic in meeting educational deficits. The findings were examined with relation to role theory and Mead's theory of symbolic interactionism. Findings should be addressed through reevaluation of the utilization and requirements of professionally licensed staff. Corrections staff experienced multifaceted knowledge deficit. Adult education learning theory presents solutions to these deficits. The Mission Statement of the Department of Juvenile Justice needs to be clarified for the corrections staff. Many corrections staff assume the goals of juvenile corrections is simply incarceration, the same as those for adults. They do not realize that a large goal of juvenile corrections is rehabilitation. Professionally licensed staff should be meeting the needs of the incarcerated juveniles.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2000
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12624
- Subject Headings
- Prisoners--Health and hygiene, Prisoners--Medical care, Juvenile delinquents--Health and hygiene, Juvenile delinquents--Medical care, Correctional personnel--In-service training
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- An analysis of Florida's school districts' attendance policies and their relationship to high school attendance rates.
- Creator
- Reardon, Ryan Turner., Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
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The purpose of this non-experimental correlational study was to determine the relationship between the type of attendance policies in the high schools of the 67 Florida school districts, the size of the school district (number of high school students), the socioeconomic status (SES) of the school district, and the average daily attendance rate of the district. Additionally, the study determined if the relationship between policy type and attendance rate was moderated by SES and size. To test...
Show moreThe purpose of this non-experimental correlational study was to determine the relationship between the type of attendance policies in the high schools of the 67 Florida school districts, the size of the school district (number of high school students), the socioeconomic status (SES) of the school district, and the average daily attendance rate of the district. Additionally, the study determined if the relationship between policy type and attendance rate was moderated by SES and size. To test the research questions, high school attendance polices were examined and coded into one of three pre-determined categories: punitive, reward, or affective. The SES level and district size were also examined. A percentage was calculated for each district with respect to the makeup of attendance policies (by type). Polices that were punitive in nature were found to be most commonly implemented (mean 81.14 percent)., No significant relationships existed among the independent variables policy type, SES level and district size when tested with the dependent variable average daily attendance rate. Furthermore, district size and SES showed no significant moderation effects on the relationship between policy type and average daily attendance rate. An additional analysis of a large urban school district showed that when examining school level average daily attendance rates, school size showed no significant relationship, while school SES level did. The conclusion of this study was that while a heavy emphasis was placed on the implementation of punitive policy, when measured at the district level, average daily attendance rates were not significantly related to the variables of policy type, SES level, or district size, nor was the relationship between policy type and average daily attendance rate moderated by SES or district size., Recommendations for future research, school leaders, and policymakers were to assess the effectiveness of using reward and affective policies in conjunction with punitive policies, to conduct an assessment of policy effectiveness using school level data as the unit of analysis, and while attendance policies are typically created at the district level, schools should be given the autonomy to create and implement attendance programs conducive to their individual needs.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/58010
- Subject Headings
- School attendance, Juvenile delinquency, Dropout behavior, Prediction of, School management and organization
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- New insights into cognitive abilities of adjudicated youths.
- Creator
- Landrum, Fred Ray., Florida Atlantic University, Kerensky, Vasil M.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the justification of using Full Scale IQ scores as the principal means of determining whether adjudicated youths are as capable of engaging in higher-order thinking processes as youths in public schools. This study examined the performance of a group of adjudicated youths (N = 50) in a correctional training school and a comparative group in a public school district (N = 50) on 4 of 10 mandatory subtests which comprise the Wechsler Intelligence...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate the justification of using Full Scale IQ scores as the principal means of determining whether adjudicated youths are as capable of engaging in higher-order thinking processes as youths in public schools. This study examined the performance of a group of adjudicated youths (N = 50) in a correctional training school and a comparative group in a public school district (N = 50) on 4 of 10 mandatory subtests which comprise the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R, WISC-III). The criteria for the subjective selection of subtests to be examined focused on choosing those which measured cognitive abilities and were not heavily influenced by acquired academic skills and socioeconomic factors. For each of the selected subtests, an inferential statistical analysis was made at a.01 level of significance using independent sample two-tailed t tests to compare the difference between the means of subtest scaled scores for subjects from the correctional training school and the public school district. The results of this analysis indicated that there was no significant difference between the cognitive abilities of the youths in the correctional training school and a comparative group in a public school district as measured by the selected subtests. This study supports the conclusion that the use of a Full Scale IQ score from a standardized intelligence test may not accurately reflect the individual cognitive abilities of adjudicated youth to engage in higher-order thinking processes. Recommendations were made for correctional educators to identify approaches which could be used that better target the higher-order thinking skills of an adjudicated youth population.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12431
- Subject Headings
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Juvenile delinquents--Education, Cognition in children
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- BICULTURALISM, FAMILISM, AND PARENTING STYLES OF HAITIAN PARENTS WITH JUVENILE YOUTH: IMPACT OF A FAMILY-BASED INTERVENTION.
- Creator
- Demezier, Danna, Gill, Carman S., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Counselor Education, College of Education
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this randomized experimental design was to determine the impact of a culturally adapted family-based intervention program on parenting styles. A secondary purpose was to determine the impact of cultural factors, biculturalism and familism, on the parenting styles of parents who participated in the family intervention, as compared to those who did not participate in the intervention. The sample consisted mostly of Haitian parents whose youth, ages 13-17, were involved in the...
Show moreThe purpose of this randomized experimental design was to determine the impact of a culturally adapted family-based intervention program on parenting styles. A secondary purpose was to determine the impact of cultural factors, biculturalism and familism, on the parenting styles of parents who participated in the family intervention, as compared to those who did not participate in the intervention. The sample consisted mostly of Haitian parents whose youth, ages 13-17, were involved in the juvenile justice system in South Florida. Twenty-one parents were randomly assigned to the intervention group (n = 15) and comparison group, or standard of care (n = 6). This study was a substudy of a larger scale study that was conducted at a major university in South Florida. Participants in the family-based intervention group received an evidence-based intervention that was adapted to their cultural needs and language preferences. The intervention lasted between 3-4 months. Participants in the comparison group were those in the standard of care, or treatment as usual group, who were referred to community-based organizations for counseling services. A pretest-posttest design was used to examine the effects of the culturally adapted intervention on parenting styles and familism. Parenting styles were measured using the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ, Robinson et al., 1995) and familism was measured using the Attitudinal Familism Scale (Lugo Steidel & Contreras, 2003). T-test analyses were used to determine statistical significance of the variables and gain scores were calculated for the intervention group and comparison group. Pearson’s r correlation coefficient was also used to explore any significant relationships between the dependent variables, parenting styles and familism, and parenting styles and biculturalism. Biculturalism was measured using the Bicultural Involvement Questionnaire (Szapocznik et al., 1980).
Show less - Date Issued
- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013675
- Subject Headings
- Parenting, Parenting--Cross-cultural studies, Haitian Americans, Juvenile delinquency, Family counseling
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- VANDALISM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOME OF THE EFFECTS OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
- Creator
- DANIELS, HENRY WAINWRIGHT., Florida Atlantic University, Kerensky, Vasil M.
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a significant difference between the occurrence of vandalism in community schools as compared with the occurrence of vandalism in non-community schools. A survey instrument was developed and sent to a stratified sample of community schools in Dade County, Florida. The stratified sample of community schools was matched with a sample of corresponding non-community schools which also received the survey instrument containing thirty-seven...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to determine if there is a significant difference between the occurrence of vandalism in community schools as compared with the occurrence of vandalism in non-community schools. A survey instrument was developed and sent to a stratified sample of community schools in Dade County, Florida. The stratified sample of community schools was matched with a sample of corresponding non-community schools which also received the survey instrument containing thirty-seven variables. To confirm the matching process, which was performed prior to the collection of the data, the survey instrument contained the capability to collect identifying demographic data. The completed instruments from the thirty matched pairs of schools were coded and forwarded to the Florida Atlantic University Computer Center for processing and analysis. The data were analyzed using a multivariate analysis of covariance statistical program with three covariates. Where multivariate significant differences were found, univariate analysis of variance was completed to determine in which of the stratums of thirty-four variables of vandalism the significant differences occurred. Where univariate significant differences were found, the Wilks-Lambda criterion of multiple comparisons of pairs of means adjusted for the three covariates was used to determine between which school type, geographic area, and school level significance was achieved on the significant variables of vandalism.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1976
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11661
- Subject Headings
- Vandalism, Juvenile delinquency--United States, School vandalism--United States
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Age-related differences in friend similarity of delinquent behavior.
- Creator
- Richmond, Ashley D., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
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During a period of increased independence from parents, youth turn to peers for support, and consequently become more vulnerable to peer pressure (Steinberg & Silverberg, 1986). During middle adolescence, vulnerability to peer influence begins to decline (Steinberg & Monahan, 2007). Empirical research has documented this trend in vulnerability to peer pressure across adolescence, but less attention has been afforded to the age-related changes in similarity. To address this, age-related...
Show moreDuring a period of increased independence from parents, youth turn to peers for support, and consequently become more vulnerable to peer pressure (Steinberg & Silverberg, 1986). During middle adolescence, vulnerability to peer influence begins to decline (Steinberg & Monahan, 2007). Empirical research has documented this trend in vulnerability to peer pressure across adolescence, but less attention has been afforded to the age-related changes in similarity. To address this, age-related changes in peer similarity in delinquency across the adolescent years were examinded using intraclass correlations. Moderating variables, including gender, reciprocity, and closeness, and control variables, including friendship stability and romantic partner status, were examined. Results indicated an increase in friend similarity in delinquency from 5th to 7th grade and a decrease in similarity from 7th to 9th grade. Implications of this study are discussed in terms of contribution to the field and implementation of the findings.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3352828
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile delinquency, Social aspects, Criminal behavior, Social aspects, Interpersonal relationships in adolescence, Friendship in adolescence, Peer pressure in adolescence
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- 'Persistent heterogeneity' v. 'state dependence': A cross-sectional test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's low self-control stability hypothesis.
- Creator
- Medlicott, Sandra, Florida Atlantic University, Arneklev, Bruce J.
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In A General Theory Of Crime Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) suggest that "low self-control" is an enduring individual characteristic that is the product of inadequate child-rearing. Sampson and Laub's (1993) Crime In the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life somewhat supports this contention. However, the latter authors also suggest that later life experiences might change the direction of the life path (and self-control). This thesis examines whether adequate child-rearing is the...
Show moreIn A General Theory Of Crime Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) suggest that "low self-control" is an enduring individual characteristic that is the product of inadequate child-rearing. Sampson and Laub's (1993) Crime In the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life somewhat supports this contention. However, the latter authors also suggest that later life experiences might change the direction of the life path (and self-control). This thesis examines whether adequate child-rearing is the key causal determinant of low self-control in later life. It further tests whether later life-course transitions might alter and/or impact low self-control. The results suggest that the impact of early child-hood experiences continue to have an influence on self-control in later life. However, they also suggest that later life-course events (or transitions) can alter the proposed stability of such control. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13363
- Subject Headings
- Self-control in children, Child rearing, Deviant behavior, Juvenile delinquency--Cross-cultural studies, Criminal behavior, Prediction of
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A STUDY OF SELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAMS OF INTERVENTION IN PALM BEACH COUNTY AS RELATED TO STUDENT DELINQUENCY AND RECIDIVISM.
- Creator
- SWAIN, KENNETH HOWARD, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of specific treatment programs offered to alternative education students and the ability of these programs to subsequently prevent student delinquency. Procedure. Two hundred fifty-two seventh and eighth grade students were selected for the study that used a causal comparative design. The subjects were drawn from four sources: a detention center, a residential program for predelinquents, students from a socially maladjusted program...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of specific treatment programs offered to alternative education students and the ability of these programs to subsequently prevent student delinquency. Procedure. Two hundred fifty-two seventh and eighth grade students were selected for the study that used a causal comparative design. The subjects were drawn from four sources: a detention center, a residential program for predelinquents, students from a socially maladjusted program and disruptive students from a school that did not offer an alternative education program. The subjects were matched by age, race, sex and grade. None of the students had been adjudicated prior to the program experience. After being exposed to the treatment effect, the student's juvenile court records were searched over an eighteen month at risk period. Findings. It was found that students placed in the detention center had more numerous arrests than students placed in the residential center. The residential alternative facility was not more effective in preventing delinquency than was the day school program. Students not placed in any specific setting had the fewest recorded incidents of deviant behavior. None of the treatment methods was seen as effective in detering delinquency; however, the residential facility was more effective when the students remained in enrollment until completion of the program. Observations. (1) Placement in the detention center was not effective in reducing delinquency after release. (2) Length of enrollment may be a critical factor in delinquency treatment. (3) Less structured alternative programs may be more appropriate for students that are not chronically deviant. Recommendations. (1) Alternative education programs should match the severity of the student's deviant behavior. (2) Candidates for the detention center should be exposed to the residential school placement to further test the diversion perspective. (3) Further exploration of the residential setting is needed to confirm the effects of long term placement. (4) Community agencies should provide better intervention services for high risk delinquents.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1981
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11790
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile delinquency--Florida--Palm Beach County--Prevention, Non-formal education--Florida--Palm Beach County
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- Document (PDF)
