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Alameda County Placement Risk Assessment Validation [PDF]
, 2000 The Alameda County Probation Department was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice in 1998 to develop a risk assessment for probation placement cases.
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A high prevalence of teenage pregnancy in Ghana has raised critical concerns. This study aims to understand the causes of early pregnancy in Akatsi North, Ghana, while also assessing the underlying attitudes of young people toward future marriage and pregnancy.
Jihye Kim, Wendy Olsen, Mohammed Ibrahim
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Civically and politically participating children and teens encounter contrasting societal beliefs about their identities and actions. Some portray them as heroes, others as naive or rebellious; some celebrate their efforts, while others dismiss or diminish them.
Markéta Supa +3 more
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International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational StudiesThe study assesses the role of parents and society in tackling truancy among secondary school students in Ede North Local Government Area in Osun State, Nigeria.
Segun Lakin Oderinde
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 In order to use attendance monitoring within an integrative strategy for preventing, assessing and addressing cases of youth with school absenteeism, we need to know whether the attendance data collected by schools cover all students with (emerging ...
Gil Keppens, Bram Spruyt, Jonas Dockx
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.Schools are important settings for intervention to improve mental health. Much school mental health research has focused on schools as an avenue to reach large numbers of young people with new interventions, added on top of what schools currently do. However, research is increasingly focused on changing the school system itself to improve mental health,
Graham Moore
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Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness?
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Local criminalization policies draw on the logic of deterrence to levy costs on individuals who engage in behaviors that are closely associated with various public concerns, such as those criminalizing behaviors associated with homelessness, thereby potentially reducing community‐level costs.
Hannah Lebovits, Andrew Sullivan
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The Contributing Factors to Student Absenteeism/Truancy and the Effectiveness of Social Services and Interventions [PDF]
, 2008 One major issue that schools are currently facing and seeing little or no improvement with is effectively dealing with student absenteeism and truancy.
Hocking, Courtney
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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although overparenting in adolescence is generally linked to poorer adolescent outcomes, the underlying psychological mechanisms have been less studied. Data from N = 691 Slovak adolescents (Mage = 15.4 SD = 0.71; 51% girls) were used to examine the role of basic psychological needs (BPN) satisfaction and frustration in the link between ...
Maria Bacikova‐Sleskova +1 more
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Iowa Juvenile Crime Prevention Community Grant Fund, 2000 [PDF]
, 2000 The Division of Criminal & Juvenile Justice Planning, as a part of its duties to administer Iowa’s Juvenile Crime Prevention Community Grant Fund, compiled the information contained in this report.
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