Tabla de Contenidos:
  • YOUTH VIOLENCE AND JUVENILE JUSTICE: CAUSES, INTERVENTION AND TREATMENT PROGRAMS
  • YOUTH VIOLENCE AND JUVENILE JUSTICE: CAUSES, INTERVENTION AND TREATMENT PROGRAMS
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ENTRE DOS MUNDOS/BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: AN EVIDENCE-BASED BICULTURAL SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ACCULTURATING LATINO FAMILIES
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • LITERATURE REVIEW
  • Assimilation and Acculturation Stress as Risk Factors
  • Biculturalism as a Protective Factor
  • ACCULTURATION-BASED PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMS
  • Current State of Model Development
  • Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds Bicultural Skills Training
  • Theoretical background
  • Entre Dos Mundos Program Design and Description
  • Testing the Entre Dos Mundos Approach
  • RESEARCH METHOD
  • Research Design
  • Sample
  • Measures
  • Data Analyses
  • RESULTS
  • Posttest Analyses
  • Analyses of One-Year Follow-Up Data
  • DISCUSSION
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • EVIDENCE-BASE PRACTICES FOR JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS IN TREATMENT IMPLEMENTATION
  • ABSTRACT
  • Case Study
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Juvenile Delinquency Defined
  • Risk Factors
  • Protective Factors
  • RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTOR DOMAINS
  • INDIVIDUAL RISK FACTORS
  • Substance Use
  • Mental Illness
  • Other Individual Risk Factors
  • INDIVIDUAL PROTECTIVE FACTORS
  • PEER RISK FACTORS
  • Association with Deviant Peers
  • Weak Social Ties and Peer Rejection
  • PEER PROTECTIVE FACTORS
  • SCHOOL RISK FACTORS
  • SCHOOL PROTECTIVE FACTORS
  • COMMUNITY RISK FACTORS
  • FAMILY RISK FACTORS
  • Abuse and Neglect
  • Parents' History
  • Parenting Style
  • Other Family Risk Factors
  • Family Protective Factors
  • FAMILIES AND HIGH-RISK YOUTH
  • FAMILY-BASED TREATMENT OPTIONS
  • MULTISYSTEMIC THERAPY
  • BRIEF STRATEGIC FAMILY THERAPY
  • MULTIDIMENSIONAL FAMILY THERAPY (MDFT)
  • Solution Focused Family Therapy
  • CONCLUSIONS.
  • Short- and Long-Term Effects of Being Both a Bully and a Victim
  • BULLYING USING RELATIONAL AGGRESSION
  • THE SILENT MAJORITY
  • IMPLICATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS FOR PRACTICE
  • Sociometric Interventions in Empirical Research
  • Example of a Sociometric Test and Action Methods Intervention
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • VIOLENT AND DELINQUENT YOUTHS: RELATIONSHIPS WITH INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITIES AND COMPLIANCE WITH SOCIAL NORMS
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I. INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITIES
  • Experiences with Institutional Authorities
  • Experience with Authorities and Cooperation with Authorities
  • Experience with Authorities and Violence
  • Experiences with Institutional Authorities Summary
  • ATTITUDES TO AUTHORITY
  • Attitude to Authorities and Cooperation with Authorities
  • Attitudes to Authorities and Violence
  • Attitudes to Authorities and Experiences with Authorities
  • Attitudes to Authority Summary
  • Summary of the Effects of Institutional Authority
  • II. WARNING SIGNS
  • Victimization
  • Empathy
  • Reputation
  • Satisfaction with Life
  • Summary of Warning Signs
  • III. UNDERSTANDING COMPLIANCE: A THEORETICAL APPROACH
  • IV. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION
  • REFERENCES
  • VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT PROGRAMMES FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS
  • ABSTRACT
  • DEFINING JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
  • THE ROOTS OF JUVENILE AND ADULT OFFENDER TREATMENT
  • THE UPSURGE OF MANUALIZED TREATMENT PROGRAMS
  • THE DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE OF YOUTH DELINQUENCY AND CRIME
  • Age Related Risk Factors
  • Offender Types
  • PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE (CORRECTIONAL) INTERVENTION
  • CORE ELEMENTS OF BEST PRACTICE PROGRAMS
  • BEST PRACTICE PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS
  • THE REASONING AND REHABILITATION PROGRAMME: AN EXAMPLE FOR A MANUALIZED BEST PRACTICE TREATMENT PROGRAM
  • PROGRAMS BASED ON OTHER THAN COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THEORY.
  • Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT
  • Bateman & Fonagy, 2004)
  • TREATMENT EFFECTS
  • LIMITATIONS
  • FINAL REMARKS
  • REFERENCES
  • BULLYING AND VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES AT SCHOOL, THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND CHILD SCHOOL PERFORMANCE: A LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • METHOD
  • Participants
  • Measures
  • Data Analysis
  • RESULTS
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Growth Modeling
  • Cross-Lagged Path Analysis
  • DISCUSSION
  • Transactional Findings
  • Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions
  • REFERENCES
  • PERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL MEDIATORS LINKING ACCULTURATION STRESS TO AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN LATINO ADOLESCENTS
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Acculturation and Youth Violence
  • Cultural Risk Factors, Assets, and Mediation Pathways
  • METHOD
  • Data Collection
  • Sample
  • Measures
  • Data Analysis
  • RESULTS
  • Path Analysis
  • DISCUSSION
  • Acculturation and Aggression
  • mplications for Practice
  • Limitations
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • CHILD-REARING PRACTICES AND DELINQUENCY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • LONGITUDINAL STUDIES PREDICTING JUVENILE DELINQUENCY FROM CHILD-REARING PRACTICES
  • INTERVENTION STUDIES SUGGESTING A CAUSAL ROLE OF CHILD-REARING PRACTICES IN ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
  • Reciprocal Parent-Child Effects in the Development of Antisocial Behaviour
  • PATTERSON'S COERCION MODEL OF RECIPROCAL PARENT-CHILD EFFECTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
  • GENETIC MEDIATION OF CHILD-REARING EFFECTS ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
  • DISCUSSION
  • Theoretical Implications
  • REFERENCES
  • SHARKS & JETS VS. BLOODS & CRIPS: SOCIO-ECONOMICS, PREVENTION, AND INTERVENTION IN DIFFERENT ERAS OF GANG VIOLENCE
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ECONOMICS AND DRUG MARKETS
  • MODERN ERA GANG VIOLENCE
  • CAREGIVERS AND THE SOCIO-ECONOMICS OF GANG AFFILIATION.
  • CONTRIBUTING AND MITIGATING FACTORS
  • Parenting Style, Youth Social Skills, and Academic Performance
  • SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS TO AVERT ANTI-SOCIAL PEER AFFILIATION
  • EMERGENCE OF A THEORY OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY AND MULTISYSTEMIC INTERVENTIONS
  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
  • PRIMARY PREVENTION AND ECONOMICS
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • THE MOTIVATIONAL INFLUENCE OF ATTITUDE, SUBJECTIVE NORM, PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL CONTROL AND ANTICIPATED AFFECTIVE SELF-REACTIONS, ON BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING OF RE-OFFENDING
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Theory of Planned Behavior
  • Affective Self-Reactions
  • Purpose of the Study
  • METHOD
  • Participants
  • Questionnaire
  • RESULTS
  • DISCUSSION
  • REFERENCES
  • EXPLORING ISSUES ABOUT YOUTH GANGS IN CANADA
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • DEFINING YOUTH GANGS
  • PREVELANCE OF YOUTH GANGS IN CANADA
  • YOUTH GANG DEMOGRAPHICS
  • WHY DO YOUTH JOIN GANGS?
  • Baron (1989) States
  • DEALING WITH THE YOUTH GANG ISSUE
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • RISK AND RESILIENCY AMONG JUVENILES AND YOUNG ADULTS
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Literature
  • Demographics
  • Purpose of the Study
  • Instruments
  • Research Questions
  • The Study Population
  • The Analysis
  • The Findings
  • The HEPFYA-R and LESY
  • Subscales
  • Total study population demographics
  • Correlations
  • Manova
  • Discussion of the Findings
  • Implications/Limitations
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • LEARNING FROM SUCCESS WITH AT RISK ADOLESCENTS
  • ABSTRACT
  • LEARNING FROM SUCCESS WITH AT RISK ADOLESCENTS
  • At Risk Adolescents
  • Interventions with at Risk Adolescents
  • Sachlav Program
  • How can We Determine What Works
  • Learning from Success
  • METHOD
  • Setting
  • Sachlav Project
  • The House on Haim Street (The "House") and the Sheltered Apartment
  • Subjects
  • Measures
  • Procedure
  • RESULTS
  • Analyzing the Results
  • Categories Derived
  • 1. Past Behavior.