Prevention of juvenile delinquency

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...

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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...

Juvenile Delinquency

A chapter on the mental growth of the child, precedes an attempt to correlate aetiological factors with the stages of child development and so to reveal the psychological basis determining the origins of susceptibility to delinquency. Here the general views of Aichhorn. Healy and Bronner, Kate Friedlander, Bowlby, Stott, Glucks and Bovet are briefly represented and examined. Most of the book co...

Juvenile Delinquency

p0rnrnenting on the Presidential Address at the B.M.A. meeting last summer: "Mr. lJaSer emphasised the need, above all, to face some of the problems of today, increasing *sure, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and road accidents, and he thought that the ate and public bodies should take a more practical part in their solution. His implied Ceptance of the need for partnership between the State ...