Overview
Description
Effective strategies for intervention with young offenders and the role of juvenile justice in crime prevention.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify when the use of detention is appropriate for juvenile offenders.
- demonstrate understanding of how detention diversion efforts can prove helpful to youth to avoid re-offending.
- demonstrate understanding of how risk and needs assessment instruments can assist juvenile justice professionals in detention diversion efforts.
- demonstrate understanding of that dually involved youth (those treated by both the juvenile justice and child welfare or child protective service systems) can benefit from early intervention programs and services.
- demonstrate understanding of the concept of graduated sanctions and see how the early delivery of services to youth can benefit them by preventing them from penetrating more deeply into the juvenile justice system.
- identify disproportionate minority contact in the juvenile justice system and understand ways it can be mitigated.
- identify the categories of services and programs to which youth and their families can be directed and be able to assign the appropriate type and level of service to these youths.
- demonstrate understanding of the concept of system collaboration and learn why it is essential that juvenile justice systems be able to work with mental health, educational and other service provider systems in order to achieve positive results for youths and families.