Delinquency Prevention: Where's the Beef?

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

As an alternative to traditional juvenile courts, juvenile drug courts attempt to provide substance abuse treatment, sanctions, and incentives to rehabilitate nonviolent drug-involved youth, empower families to support them in this process, and prevent recidivism. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) sponsored a multisite study of juvenile drug courts to examine the...

The Wheres and Whyfores for Studying Textual Genre Computationally

This brief paper gives an example of statistical stylistic experimentation and argues for more informed measures of variation and choice and more informed measures of readership analysis to be able to posit dimensions of textual variation usefully.

Letter to Editors. Upon the bill on prevention of sexual delinquency threats.

Ustawa przewiduje trzy szczególne środki ochrony (art. 3 Ustawy): 1) rejestr sprawców przestępstw na tle seksualnym, 2) obowiązki pracodawców i innych orga-nizatorów w zakresie działalności związanej z wychowaniem, edukacją, leczeniem

[Juvenile delinquency].

Juvenile Delinquency

potentiality the mature pattern of social behaviour depends upon the pattern of behaviour established in early family relationships. Normal behaviour presupposes that the child in the home should have met firstly with stable and secure affection. This is a biological need without which he cannot develop normally. In its absence, relative or, rarely, complete, he will be liable to a wide variety...