Exam 10: Prevention and Diversion Programs

In general terms, discuss the pros and cons of prevention and diversion with juvenile offending.

Radical nonintervention refers to the idea that the primary target for delinquency policy should be neither the individual nor the local community setting, but rather the delinquency-defining processes themselves.

Prior offending history is more indicative of recidivism after completing a restorative justice program than type of offense.

The concept of restorative justice may make sense for young middle-class offenders involved in minor first offenses but may be totally irrelevant for those living in the most crime-ridden areas.

Esbensen and Osgood (1999) found that students who participated in the GREAT program were no less likely to join gangs and had a decrease in gang-related knowledge.

The ______ program is a 13-week curriculum offered in middle schools, elementary schools, during the summer, and to families. Its focus is on reducing the number of children joining gangs and it is taught by uniformed police officers.

The public is frequently hesitant to finance ______ programs because they have no immediately visible payoffs.

The extent to which any results can be attributed to a specific program is extremely easy to measure.

To rehabilitate the juvenile, it is necessary to deal with more than the act of delinquency that brought the youth to the attention of the justice system.

A 2003 study by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) pointed out that the earlier an ______ can be introduced, the better the opportunity to change the behavior.

Pick any two prevention or diversion programs and critique them using the material presented in the text.

______ programs involve small, closely supervised groups of juveniles who are confronted with difficult physical challenges that require teamwork and cooperation to overcome them.

In restorative justice, ______ are measured by how much repair was done rather than by how much punishment was inflicted.

Discuss what primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention are. Provide examples of each.

It would seem reasonable to bring as many resources as possible to bear so as to ______ the offender from engaging in illegal behavior in the first place (predelinquent intervention) or to try to ______ the juvenile, as early as possible, when he or she does encounter the justice system.

Programs oriented toward reforming society have been quite ______ in terms of the results produced, depending on whether results are measured in terms of alleviating educational, occupational, and economic difficulties or in terms of reducing delinquency.

Researchers have found that ______ and ______ were two restorative programs that showed the most promise in reducing recidivism.

______ advocates programs such as victim-offender mediation, victim-impact panels, community service, and community sentencing.

Much of the money intended for juveniles with problems ends up in ______, and many of the personnel hired to help supervise, train, and educate these juveniles are tied up in dealing with administrative red tape.

The concept of ______ court has originated as a way to keep first-time juvenile offenders who commit minor offenses and are willing to admit guilt from being processed in the formal juvenile justice system.