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Assignment: In this discussion, students will discuss factors influencing juveniles and delinquency, the role of schools in detecting and preventing delinquent acts, and concepts and issues related to delinquency control and prevention efforts.

Craft an initial post thoroughly and specifically addressing the following elements:

• Consider the Chapter 10 textbook readings on schools and delinquency.
  • Identify and discuss one significant way (good or bad) that the school experience can shape the direction of an adolescent’s life course.
    • Use and cite specific concepts and evidence from your text to support your discussion.
    • Incorporate examples from your own school experiences if you would like. 
  • Identify one specific program or policy used by schools to detect and prevent delinquency.
• Describe the program or policy, discussing how schools use it to detect and prevent delinquency. Consider the Chapter 12 readings discussing delinquency prevention.
  • Identify and briefly discuss one of the costs of delinquency.
  • Using the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Model Programs Guide website (Links to an external site.), research one delinquency prevention program. Using the information from the Chapter 12 textbook reading and your delinquency program research, discuss the following:
    • Identify and provide an overview (in your own words) of the delinquency prevention program you researched.
    • Identify the factors the program targets and how the program is supposed to prevent delinquency.
    • Discuss the program’s effectiveness at preventing delinquency.
    • Identify and discuss at least one benefit of early implementation of delinquency programs.
    • In your discussion, be sure to identify the difference between delinquency control and delinquency prevention and to discuss the role of risk and protective factors to receive full credit.

In your three responses to your classmates, consider addressing the discussion questions they presented, using facts and evidence from the module materials to support your discussion. You might also review their responses to the other discussion topics. Did these responses adequately and accurately address the topics? Did the responses mention something or consider something you had not thought of? Did you have a different perspective on a topic that you would like to share?

Reply:

The school experience has a significant impact on an adolescent’s life course. Siegel & Welsh (2018) mentioned that schools have become an important determinant of economic and social status. Educational achievement is important in an adolescent’s life because it helps adolescents become more successful later in life. In addition, racial inclusiveness has improved greatly over the years within schools, which has resulted in many African American youths having lower incarceration rates.

I work in a city that has police officers present in the local middle school. This change was a direct result of the Stoneman Douglas school shooting on February 14, 2018. All of the officers in our department who work in the school are required to be certified in a Mental Health certification course. The purpose of officers being present in the school is as a first line of defense in case a student brings a gun to school and/if there is a school shooting. Officers must patrol the school property and look for suspicious individuals or behavior among students throughout the day.

Here is a link to Senate Bill No. 7030 which outlines this school guardianship program that was recently established: http://laws.flrules.org/2019/22 (Links to an external site.)

One of the costs of delinquency was outlined by Siegel & Welsh (2018) when they discussed the financial responsibility to society. A criminal career from ages 10 to 26 will cost an estimated $2.6 to $4.6 million, not including costs associated with kids dropping out of school and becoming involved with drug use. Chronic juvenile offenders were up to eight times higher than the average cost to victims compared to other juvenile delinquents.

The National Institute of Justice (2011) discussed the LifeSkills Training Program is offered to upper elementary and junior high school students. It is a classroom-based drug abuse prevention program that has resulted in decreased cigarette, alcohol, and drug use among participants. Due to the significant decreases in these numbers, the program was rated effective by the National Institute of Justice. The program aims to teach students the negative consequences of drug use, promotes attitudes against drug use, teaches self-management and social skills, and offer alternatives for resisting social influences to participate in drug use and violent behaviors. This program uses delinquency prevention measures, which are aimed at intervening in a child’s life before they participate in delinquent acts. Delinquency control measures are used to prevent future delinquent acts. Examples of delinquency control measures include boot camps, probation, and electronic monitoring. Benefits of early implementation of delinquency programs are to prevent or reduce delinquency from occurring, improve commitment and attachment to school, teaching children healthy coping skills and self-management skills, teaching behavior management and social skills, and have better achievement in academics. Programs attempt to reduce risk factors in a child’s life, which could increase the likelihood of future delinquent acts. Protective factors are increased to decrease the likelihood of a future delinquent act from occurring. Risk factors might include poor social skills, dysfunctional family lives, poor or absent parenting at home, and aggressive or violent behaviors. Protective factors include mentoring, behavior management, and healthy coping skills training (Siegel & Welsh, 2018).

References

National Institute of Justice. (2011, June 1). Program profiles: LifeSkills Training. Crime Solutions. https://crimesolutions.ojp.gov/ratedprograms/186#p…

Siegel, L. J., & Welsh, B. B. (2018). Juvenile delinquency: Theory, practice, and law (13th ed.). Cengage Learning.

Reply:

Kids that underachieve and do poorly in school are the more likely to get involved in delinquent behavior (Siegel & Welsh, 2018). A study found, after comparing failure rates, grades, and standardized testing, that kids that engage in delinquent behavior were much lower, and less educated than kids who did not engage in the activity. One way schools prevent delinquent behavior is by offering tutoring programs. These programs help kids study, and learn how to study more effectively. They also help to learn material that may have been confusing or misunderstood in the classroom. Another thing tutoring does is catch student who have been left behind up. If you’re behind in the classroom, and the class keeps going you’ll never catch up. Math class for instance, if you don’t understand multiplication, you wouldn’t be able to understand exponents, and then the teacher moves to factoring and so on. This extra help for students can help grades and keep them which might help them from becoming delinquent. The literal cost of delinquency is stunningly high. Some estimates say that all juvenile crime in the US in one year costs about $16 Billion. This number comes from damaged property, involvement of police and detectives and victims families losses (Siegel & Welsh, 2018).

The program I looked at is iMentor’s college readiness. This is a program that helps High school students with critical thinking skills, focus, and test taking to help them get into a better school and succeed in the school. The program focuses on helping the kids get a higher education. Furthering your education can help to open doors to better jobs and better paying jobs. Compared to students who were not in the group the group was 7% more likely to graduate with a diploma. Early implementation of prevention programs makes it normal to not be delinquent. Kids seeing that getting good grades and not committing crimes should be the normal, if they see bad grades and crime as normal, they’ll be drawn to it.

Siegel, L. J., & Welsh, B. B. (2018). Juvenile delinquency: Theory, practice, and law (13th ed.). Cengage Learning

Reply:

The school system can help shape an adolescents life in a good way, through socialization among other peers, giving kids the opportunity to learn the importance of healthy behaviors and also giving kids the opportunity to grow their skills and figure out what in life it is that they want to do.

School-based prevention programs to help with delinquency are strategies such as: cognitive, affective, behavioral, environmental, therapeutic. Creating special classes focusing on non adjusting students, more student-teacher relationships and services that involve counselors to help assist with personal issues.

One of the costs of delinquency is national costs. Homicides and assault-related injuries perpetrated by juveniles cost the United States $16 billion each year. This includes federal, state and local governments assisting victims of juvenile violence which considering the cost is not surprising to the efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency.

The program I chose is a community-based service that helps with the prevention of future delinquent behavior by strengthening youths’ social behavior and bonds and increasing access to resources in the community. This program is rated effective because participants in the program had statistically significant lower rates of official delinquency, compared with control group youth. One benefit of early implementation of delinquency programs would be creating a good foundation early in adolescence to prevent the behaviors that lead into the teenage years.

Delinquency control – responds to the individual after the delinquent act has occurred

Delinquency prevention – helps to prevent delinquent behavior outside of the juvenile system

Siegel, L. J., & Welsh, B. (2018). Juvenile delinquency: Theory, practice, and law. Cengage Learning.