01:202:322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Court, Public Health
19 Nov 2020
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Chapter 11: delinquency prevention and juvenile justice today. Preventing juvenile delinquency means many different things to different people. Delinquency control/repression - these could include the police making an arrest, the juvenile court placing a juvenile in a correctional facility. Delinquency prevention - intervening in young people"s lives before they engage in delinquency in the first place. These prevention programs often include the police, courts, probation, etc. There is a public health approach to prevention (helping the well being of these. There is a developmental perspective - an intervention especially targeting high risk juveniles) juveniles. The juvenile justice system has control over delinquent juveniles and status offenders. Delinquency prevention refers to intervening in young people"s lives before they engage in delinquency. Police arrest, a juvenile court sanction or death penalty. Non justice delinquency prevention or alternative delinquency prevention: Ymca, boys and girls clubs of america. The organization or classification of delinquency prevention is diverse.
