Exam 10: Prevention and Diversion Programs

During the 1930s, the ______ involved churches, social clubs, and community committees that sponsored recreation programs for juveniles; addressed problems associated with law enforcement, health services, and education; targeted local gangs; and helped to reintegrate juveniles who had been adjudicated delinquent.

______ prevention attempts to prevent further illegal acts among offenders once such acts have been committed.

The earlier intervention can be introduced, the lesser the opportunity to change the behavior of a juvenile offender.

______ prevention is directed at preventing illegal acts among the juvenile population as a whole before they occur by alleviating social conditions related to the offenders.

List and describe at least two specialty or therapeutic courts and discuss their effectiveness.

The agencies of the juvenile justice system that are established to correct delinquent behavior often contribute to its occurrence even as they try to cope with it.

The philosophy of ______ justice centers on the assertion that crime and delinquency affect persons instead of the traditional assertion that crime affects the state.

Juvenile drug court programs reduce crime by lowering rearrest and conviction rates among graduates of the court.

The goal of the semester-long ______ program aimed at fifth and sixth graders is to equip juveniles with the skills to resist peer pressure to use drugs.

______ theories stress the desirability of prevention rather than correction.

Teen or drug courts, known as problem-solving or therapeutic courts, focus on ______ issues that emerge in the traditional court, but cannot be adequately dealt with through traditional court means and sanctions.

Inherent in the multifaceted problems of delinquency and child abuse prevention is the fact that these behaviors have roots in the basic social conditions of the society.

No single program is likely to emerge as being effective in preventing any delinquency.

______ prevention seeks to identify juveniles who appear to be at high risk for delinquency and/or abuse and to intervene in their lives early.

Increased attention and research on bullying is not warranted in contemporary schools.

Intervening with a juvenile prior to adjudication is referred to as:

Research has shown that participation in the D.A.R.E. program during elementary school has no effect on later alcohol use, cigarette smoking, or marijuana use in the 12th grade, although it may deter a small amount of the use of illegal and more deviant drugs such as inhalants, cocaine, and LSD among teenage males.

Research on the teen courts' ability to reduce recidivism has shown many positive results.

Programs directed toward pure prevention may, unintentionally, lead juveniles to be labeled earlier by identifying them at an earlier stage and are called ______.

In most cases, we wait until a juvenile comes into official contact with the system before an attempt is made to modify the behavior that has, by the time contact becomes official, been more or less ingrained.