Chapters 13-15 Flashcards
In evaluating delinquency intervention programs, this seeks to “comprehensively identify and measure the benefits and costs of a program,” including those that occur during and after participation in the program
Cost–benefit analysis
Characteristics of the youth and his/her environment that can be changed through intervention, such as antisocial attitudes and values, association with delinquent peers, dysfunctional family relationships, and antisocial personality traits
Dynamic risk factors
“Involves the use of scientific principles to assess the available evidence on program effectiveness and to develop principles for best practice in any particular field”
Evidence-based practice
“The degree to which a program’s core services, components, and procedures are implemented as originally designed”
Fidelity
Targets identified juvenile offenders in order to prevent or eliminate a serious pattern of delinquent offending.
Indicated prevention (or tertiary prevention)
A statistical technique that estimates the effects found across evaluation studies of intervention methods and strategies.
Meta-analysis
Individual traits, abilities, and social circumstances that allow youth to adapt positively to adverse environments.
Protective factors
A systematic guide to model programs for
delinquency prevention and intervention. The model programs that are identified and described have been found to be effective through evaluation research.
Program registry of evidence-based practice
Achieving healthy psychosocial development and positive functioning despite stress, hardship, and adversity
Resiliency
Exciting, pleasure-seeking acts such as alcohol and drug use, disruptive acts and underachievement in school, reckless driving, precocious sexual activity, and juvenile delinquency. These may be harmful for the youth and others and they may compromise psychosocial maturation in the adolescent and young adult years.
Risk-taking behaviors
Any individual trait, social influence, or environmental condition that leads to greater likelihood of risk-taking behaviors and ultimately negative developmental outcomes during the adolescent years.
Risk factor
Standardized assessment instruments to identify the likelihood or “risk” of future offending or reoffending, and the “criminogenic needs” of the youth—those factors that lead to delinquency and can be changed.
Risk/need assessment
Prevention programs target youth or groups
of youths who are “at-risk” due to multiple risk factors in their lives.
Selective prevention (or secondary prevention)
Background characteristics of the youth that cannot be changed through prevention programs, including the age of onset of problem behaviors, history of aggressive behavior and violence, and parental criminality.
Static risk factors
Prevention programs that target the general
population of youth and include campaigns to prevent smoking and drug use, to promote problem-solving and dispute resolution skill through classroom education, and classes on parenting skills offered to all parents
Universal prevention (or primary prevention)
Clinical tools used to classify problem behaviors and provide evidence for effective treatment.
Assessment instruments
A youth who is involved with the juvenile justice system and at least one additional system of care.
Crossover youth
A youth who has been adjudicated delinquent and placed in a residential facility
Deep-end youth
A youth who is involved in both the child welfare system and the juvenile justice system, though not necessarily at the same time.
Dual-status youth
The use of data gathered through research and evaluation as the basis for decision-making about policy and best practices.
Evidence-based practice
An extension of the system of care approach that advocates for the need to focus on the multiple contexts where youth who have been exposed to violence, crime, and abuse receive care.
Linking systems of care
Exposure to multiple victimizations from various types of violence and abuse.
Poly-victimization
Brief tools used in both clinical and non-clinical settings to identify referral need for more in-depth assessment.
Screening instruments
A comprehensive spectrum of mental health and other necessary services which are organized into a coordinated network to meet the changing needs of children and their families
System of care
