Exam 2 Flashcards

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What is the purpose of research?

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Advancing academic knowledge and utilizing applied knowledge.

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Florida DJJ Development Academic collaborations

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Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program (FSU) and the Juvenile Justice System Improvement Project (Georgetown)

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What are examples of Florida DJJ Development Collaborations

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Academic collaborations, Government research collaboration/funding,
and Private/public foundations research collaborations

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Florida DJJ Development private/public foundations research collaborations

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Annie E. Casey

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What is Translational Criminology?

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Creating policy-relevant knowledge, disseminating information and translating it for policy use, and reducing barriers to implementation.

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What are ways to distinguish policy relevant research?

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The aims or the research question, immediate applicability to practice, and feasibility of implementation.

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When pertaining to disseminating research, where do practitioners turn?

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Practitioners/trade publications, professional associations, government research, conference, and peer networking

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What are potential barriers that may impact successful translation of research?

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Clarify/interpretability of research, internal/leadership support, politics, training, trust/relationships, fiscal/resources (staff turnover & data capacity), “Crisis of the Day”, time

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What are elements of clarity/interpretability of research barriers?

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Jargon/technical complications, Ambiguous findings, and applicability/feasibility

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In regards to the clarity and interpretability of research what is considered as ambiguous findings?

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The consistency, and quantity and quality.

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What are examples of clarity and interpretability of research?

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Paint colors for detention centers and community vs residential placements.

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What are elements of Internal/leadership support barriers?

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Policymaker and practitioner leadership, and academic leadership

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What are examples of Internal/leadership support?

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Police Cheif/Sheriff background and Dr. Eric Hall (DJJ Secretary)

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In regards to Internal and leadership support what are elements of policymaker and practitioner leadership?

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Familiarity and experience with research and perceptions of research bias.

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In regards to Internal and leadership support what are elements of academic leadership?

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ivory tower and confidence in findings

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What are elements of trust and relationships barriers?

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Potential exposure and negative experiences

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What is an example of a trust and relationship barrier?

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Council of state Government Report

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In regards to trust and relationship barriers, what is a potential result of potential exposure?

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Results reflect poorly on agency

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In regard to trust and relationship barriers, what are potential negative experiences?

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Interpersonal interactions, additional workload caused by collaboration, and differential goals

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What are the elements of fiscal and resource barriers?

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Time and resource demands of research, timeline for research, and turnover

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In regard to fiscal and resource barriers, what are elements of time and resource demands of research?

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Assign staff, develop research design, build data collection capacity, monitor program and research fidelity, interpret results, and policy responses

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In regard to fiscal and resource barriers, what are the elements of timeline for research?

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short-term demands, and forecasting

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What are elements of Crisis of the day barriers?

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high-profile incidents, research incremental and time-consuming

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What is an example of a Crisis of the day barrier?

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School resource officers and school violence

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In regards to the Crisis of the day, what are the elements of high-profile incidents?

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Demand quick responses and little time or desire to involve researchers

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What are some facilitators for overcoming barriers?

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developing relationships, evidence-based movement, supportive leadership, information research, and cross training

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How is “Research” in juvenile justice guided by the emergency of the day?

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Responsive and reactive, ad-hoc, specific to time and context

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How is “Research” in juvenile justice methodologically simplistic?

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Trends, counts, and cost

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What is the value of researcher and academic involvement?

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methodological techniques, access to literature, and legitimacy

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What are researcher and academic involvement methodological techniques?

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Multivariate analysis and randomized control trials

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What is a researcher and academic involvement access to literature?

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Comprehensive literature review, meta-analyses, and application of theory

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What are research-practitioner models?

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Publicly accessible data, research-practitioner partnerships, pracademics, embedded academic

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What are the benefits of publicly accessible data?

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ease of access, transparency, and not labor intensive

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What are the drawbacks of publicly accessible data?

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Suitability for research, blind spots for limitations, specificity of data

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What are formal collaborations of research-practitioner partnerships?

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Criminal justice agencies, and legislative bodies and policymakers

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What research-practitioner partnerships are frequently tied to funding?

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Grant funding, agency sponsored

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What are the elements of the Juvenile Justice System Improvement Project?

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Multi-jurisdiction collaboration, academic consults (evidence-based practices), adaptability to the local context, limited scope, temporary

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What are some academic consultants (Evidence-based practices) of the Juvenile Justice System Improvement Project?

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The RNR model, Disposition Matrix, Continuum of Services Mapping, Standardized Program Evaluation Protocol

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What are the primary benefits of the Juvenile Justice System Improvement Projects?

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to expand research capacity with research expertise and practitioner insight promote policy-relevant and high-quality research, establish long-term relationships

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What are the elements of Pracademics?

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Training agency staff in the academic process, intimately familiar with day-to-day, limited autonomy

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What are pracademic elements of training agency staff in the academic process?

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Research methods, theory, and data analytics

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What is embedded academic?

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Academic embedding within agency, attending to regular functions, maintains ties to academia

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What are academics embedded within the agency?

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Physical office, routine contact, knowledge of real-time events

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What are some ways to attend regular functions?

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staff meetings and internal networking

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What are the benefits of the DJJ Office of Research and Data Integrity

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familiarity with data, collaboration with key stakeholders, cost-effective vs. external collaboration

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What are the challenges of the DJJ Office of Research and Data Integrity?

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Autonomy, resources, all other translational barriers

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What is the purpose of the development of risk assessment instruments?

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informed, systematic assessments of risk and to identify criminogenic needs

48
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What are the developments of risk assessment instruments?

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1st gen -> professional judgement
2nd gen -> static factors
3rd gen -> static and dynamic factors
4th gen -> actuarial and case management

49
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What are the elements of quantifying risks?

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judicial perception, actuarial assessment, and discretion varies

50
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What are the factors of judicial Perception of quantifying risk?

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Accuracy and salient factors

51
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What is a factor of actuarial assessment of quantifying risk?

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statistical informed

52
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How does discretion vary in quantifying risk?

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based on guidelines vs recommendations and practitioner “buy-in”

53
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What is a concern with demographic disparities?

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Equally predictive

54
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What is a deterministic concern?

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the role of discretion

55
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What are the concerns with the administration?

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Training for staff (motivational interviewing), participation, political concerns

56
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What are some factors of the developmental process of risk assessment instruments?

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Review criminological research/prior instruments, assess predictive accuracy, screen across sub-sample

57
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The development process screens across what type of sub-samples?

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Demographic, geographic, and risk level

58
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What is the purpose of the Baglivio (2009) PACT Validation study?

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the purpose was validation, gender comparison, most import risk factors

59
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What methods were used Baglivio (2009) PACT Validation?

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12-Month Post-PACT Assessment of Community Youth, Relationship between risk score and referrals, Relationship between Criminal/Social History and referrals.

60
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Social History Scoring

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Chart is too long and I dont care

61
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Classification Class Activity

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62
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What are some key points with the historical development of risk needs responsivity?

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The offending-relevant characteristics of offenders, successful interventions, and differentiating between low/high risk

63
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Who are some key people that contributed to the historical development of risk needs responsivity?

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Donald Andrews (Carleton University)
and James Bonta (Public Safety Canada)

64
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What historical development in risk needs responsivity response to?

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“nothing works”

65
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What are some factors of risk?

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The intensity of services, risk to reoffend, considerations, and least restrictive placement

66
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How can the risk to reoffend be determined?

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Predictable, risk assessment instruments (area under the curve)

67
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What are considerations of risk?

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effectiveness of treatment environment and public safety

68
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How to determine individual needs?

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it is drawn frfom prior research

69
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What are different conceptualizations of needs?

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The “Big Eight”, FLDJJ domains, and many variations

70
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What are the big 8?

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  1. Procriminal attitudes, 2. antisocial personality, 3. procriminal associates,
  2. history of antisocial behavior,
  3. substance abuse,
  4. circumstances pertaining to family/marital,
  5. school/work, and
  6. leisure/recreation domains
71
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What are DJJ Criminogenic Domains?

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School, use of free time, employment, relationships, family, alcohol and drugs, trauma/mental health, attitudes and behaviors, aggression, skills

72
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What are important needs for prevention youth according to Sheppard 2023?

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Education, aggression, family

73
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What are important needs for residential youth according to hay 2021?

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Peer choice, educational commitment, employment/career commitment

74
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What are non-criminogenic needs according to Bonta and Andrews 2007

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Self-esteem, vague feelings of personal distress, physical health

75
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What is responsivity?

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The ability to engage with treatment

76
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What are general elements of responsivity?

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using effective strategies such as cognitive behavior strategies

77
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What are specific elements of responsivity?

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demographics, learning style, learning abilities, and external factors

78
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What are external factors of specific responsivity?

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basic needs and transportation

79
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What are case processing decisions?

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predisposition placement and disposition

80
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What are factors of disposition?

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treatment environment and placement conditions

81
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What are elements of treatment decisions?

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type of interventions and intensity of treatment

82
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What are elements of system decisions?

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continuum of services and allocation of resources

83
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What is optimizing treatment level and setting?

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Matching youth to levels of service based on risk and needs

84
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What does optimizing treatment level require?

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assessment of youth risk, classification of youth risk, continuum of services with varying levels of intensity and restrictiveness

85
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What is a graduated sanction?

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youth being placed in the least restrictive option dependent on risk and dependent on changes in behavior

86
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What is the disposition matrix?

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they rank sanctions by severity and match youth to least restrictive placement consistent based on risk

87
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What are the levels of restrictiveness

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1 Alternative to arrest
2 Diversion and Non-DJJ Probation
3 Community Supervision
4 Non-Secure Residential Commitment
4 Secure Commitment

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What are the different divisions of community supervision?

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Probation Supervision, probation enhancement services, day treatment, multisystem therapy, function family therapy

89
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How does the most serious presenting offense use the matrix?

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civil citation eligible (first time misdemeanor), minor (misdemeanor offenses), serious (felony offenses excluding violence), violent (violent felony offenses)

90
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How is the matrix used to assess the risk to reoffend?

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Low, moderate, moderate-high, high

91
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What is optimum placement?

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least restrictive option suggested the given cell that has not previously been attempted with that youth

92
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What is appropriate placement?

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within the suggested range of a cell

93
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What is service matching?

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finding the right treatment for the right youth

94
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What are components of criminogenic service matching?

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RNR model, optimizing impact of treatment
and the applicability across service continuum

95
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How are criminogenic service matching applicable across the service continuum?

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Prevention, Probation, and Residential

96
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What are the necessary components of service matching?

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identification of needs, the availability of matching treatment, and the quality and quantity

97
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How to identify the need for service matching?

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risk assessment instruments like distinct domains and quality measures, comprehensive evaluation from a licensed clinical psychologist, other instruments such as MAYSI or intelligence test, and holy grail articles like R-PACT and top 3 needs

98
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How to determine the availability of matching treatment

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Identifying available treatments, classifying available treatments and accessibility of treatment

99
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How to classify available treatments?

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stated target empirically demonstrated target

100
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What are the factors with the accessibility of treatment?

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JPA knowledge, transportation, eligibility criteria, capacity

101
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How are providers required to implement pre-approved interventions for residential matching?

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Must meet DJJ standards of practices with demonstrated effectiveness

102
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How and programs and interventions classified for residential matching?

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vary based on targeted needs and population, the holy grail: designated needs based on interventions’ stated objectives

103
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What are the two stages of residential matching?

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  1. Matching to program (Conference Summary)
  2. Matching treatments within the program
104
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What are the factors for the conference summary?

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Multidisciplinary team, risk assessment reports, availability of space

105
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What are the different program types for the conference summary?

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Prop wont be on the test but theres alot of them

106
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What services does the community resource guide provide?

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service type, location, and eligibility criteria

107
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What is the service continuum analysis?

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an annual survey that assessed the top needs which include individual/family mental health/substance abuse services, job-related services and life skills, and respite care and transitional housing services

108
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What is the Standardized Program Evaluation Protocol (SPEP)?

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a rating system based on service type, implementation quality, dosage, and youth risk and used to evaluate program performance

109
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What is the dosage?

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the contact number of hours

110
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What is the duration?

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The length of time during which the program was administered

111
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Was there a reduction in recidivism with optimum treatment?

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yes, 17% reduction in recidivism

112
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What are the tiers of support with the quality of treatment effectiveness?

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evidence-based practice, promising practice, practice with demonstrated effectiveness

113
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What is the importance of using evaluated interventions?

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residential programs required to use programs meeting these criteria, note that not all community-based programs have this requirement

114
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What are the challenges to prevention programs?

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they are voluntary, limited EPBs, Varying availability, accessibility issues

115
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What are the challenges to probation?

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limited EPBs, varying availability, accessibility issues