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Zhang, Kaili Chen; Choo, Andrew; Lim, Liping – Support for Learning, 2009
This article presents factors that place girls at risk of delinquency and offending as well as the patterns in juvenile delinquency trends for females in Singapore. The authors also describe Singapore's overall structure of services for young offenders and the current status of alternative education programmes for young women engaged in delinquent…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Delinquency, Females, Foreign Countries
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Barry, Monica – Journal of Youth Studies, 2010
This article examines youth transitions and youth offending in tandem. It argues that the transition to adulthood is heavily implicated in the fact that most offending occurs in the youth phase. Drawing on a study of 20 male and 20 female persistent young offenders in Scotland, it explores young people's desire for integration with others in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescent Development, Recidivism, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2010
It's not easy to keep young people on task for learning in a youth prison, but David Domenici, the principal of the Maya Angelou Academy, a charter-like school serving incarcerated juveniles, is trying to do it while at the same time creating a model program for improving educational services for young offenders. Located at the New Beginnings…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Demonstration Programs, Nonprofit Organizations, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Foundation Center, 2011
This publication is only available as a downloadable file. See who's giving and getting grants in your field. Strengthen your search for funds with the Foundation Center's digital edition of "Grants for Children & Youth." This new "Grant Guide" reveals the scope of current foundation giving in the field. You'll find descriptions of 37,992 grants…
Descriptors: Grants, Fund Raising, Guides, Philanthropic Foundations
Edelman, Peter B.; Holzer, Harry J. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2013
In this paper we will briefly review recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing specifically on those who have become "disconnected" from school and the labor market, and why these trends have occurred. We then review a range of policy prescriptions that might improve those outcomes. These policies include: 1)…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement, Employment Potential, Labor Market
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Unruh, Deanne; Povenmire-Kirk, Tiana; Yamamoto, Scott – Journal of Correctional Education, 2009
Adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system face multiple challenges on their pathway to adulthood. These adolescents not only have an increased risk of committing future crimes and are further at risk of not becoming healthy, productive adults. The purpose of this study was to examine the risk and protective factors and associations…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Predictor Variables, Delinquent Rehabilitation
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Theurer, Gregory; Lovell, David – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2008
An intensive case management treatment program for mentally ill offenders (MIOs) is outlined, and subsequent recidivism of participants is evaluated. Features of the program and its development are discussed. Sixty-four (64) participants released from state prison between 1998 and 2003 were matched with a group of MIOs released earlier on eight…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Correctional Institutions, Mental Disorders, Delinquent Rehabilitation
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Gagnon, Joseph Calvin – Journal of Special Education, 2010
The purpose of the current study was to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of state-level policies and practices concerning youth with disabilities in secondary day treatment and residential (DTR) schools, as well as juvenile correctional (JC) schools for committed youth. A survey of state directors of special education or their designees…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Accountability, Educational Practices, State Standards
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Hagner, David; Malloy, JoAnne M.; Mazzone, Melanie W.; Cormier, Gail M. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2008
Transition-age students with disabilities under the jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system face serious transition and rehabilitation challenges as they reenter the community from youth detention. This article presents the initial outcomes of a demonstration project utilizing the Rehabilitation, Empowerment, Natural supports, Education and…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Juvenile Justice, Delinquent Rehabilitation
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Rissler, Ed; O'Rourke, Tom – Journal of Correctional Education, 2009
Educational programs are often considered the last opportunity for an incarcerated youth to prepare for successful transition into society. While there is considerable literature identifying and describing the characteristics of youth and program services for youth in correctional facilities, it is important to gain a better understanding of…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Juvenile Justice, Followup Studies
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Shinji, Tajima – Convergence, 2009
In Pakistan, there are 7,000 children in 70 jails. From observations on why children commit crime, the author offers that the core cause is poverty; 99 per cent of young prisoners belong to deprived sections of society. They do not have access to education; living in prison is difficult; the degrading and harsh treatment adversely affects the…
Descriptors: Literacy, Correctional Institutions, Libraries, Foreign Countries
Shenk, Emily, Ed.; Price, Jennifer M., Ed. – Child Welfare League of America (NJ1), 2008
This issue of "The Link" newsletter contains the following articles: (1) Potential for Change: Public Attitudes and Policy Preferences for Juvenile Justice Systems Reform; (2) Rehabilitation versus Incarceration of Juvenile Offenders: Public Preferences in Four Models for Change States; and (3) Juvenile Justice Bulletin Brief (John Tuell).…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, Newsletters, Political Attitudes
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Macomber, Donna; Skiba, Thomas; Blackmon, Jaime; Esposito, Elisa; Hart, Lesley; Mambrino, Elisa; Richie, Thompson; Grigorenko, Elena L. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2010
The state of Connecticut detained 1,444 children and youth and committed approximately 270 to the Department of Children and Families for out of home placement in the 2007-2008 calendar year. A significant number of children and youth have special education needs that are often unidentified by home school districts. State and federal law mandate…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Federal Legislation, Home Schooling, Study Centers
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Nissen, Laura – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2006
The strength-based approach is an organizing principle for a family of theories and practice strategies that encourage helping professionals to seek out clients' abilities, resources, and gifts and apply them to current life challenges. Despite its successful use in many human service sectors, this approach has not been embraced in the juvenile…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Juvenile Justice, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Ideology
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Vehkalahti, Kaisa – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
By focusing on letter-writing the article provides an example of how a technology of the word could be used as a panoptic technology of observation and reformation. The article discusses the practice of using letters in monitoring children's development in early twentieth-century reform school education. It is based on the author's study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Letters (Correspondence), Observation, Child Development
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