01:202:322 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Juvenile Court, Family Therapy, Homicide
30 Oct 2014
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Be able to define and differentiate among detention hearing, intake, adjudication, and disposition stages. 3: definitions: graduated sanctions, determinate sentencing, blended sentenced, the balanced approach, the various responsibilities of juvenile probation departments (hint: no single lecture covered them all), def"s of court supervision/informal probation, consent decrees, plea bargaining, Question reads, which is not a major trend ) 4: aftercare/parole supervision vs. probation supervision, suicide rates in juvenile detention facilities vs. general population, relationship between risk of recidivism (high vs. low) and success with treatment, the finding from meta-analyes that 2/3 of evaluations find treatment effectiveness. 7: steps in the defiance process (know that slide and accompanying lecture). Know a ballpark recidivism rate based on lecture. (i"m not sure if it"s also discussed in the reading): what does actuarial means in the context of detention placement decisions. Note that vocational and employment programs are quite different from each other.
