The Effects of a Peer-Mediated Reading Intervention on Juvenile Offenders’ Main Idea Statements About Informational Text

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jade Wexler ◽  
Deborah K. Reed ◽  
Erin E. Barton ◽  
Marisa Mitchell ◽  
Erin Clancy
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Struggling Readers ◽  
Reading Intervention ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Informational Text ◽  
Main Ideas

Many youth in the juvenile justice system with or at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders struggle with reading. A multiple-baseline-across-participants single-case research design was used to examine the relationship between a supplemental peer-mediated reading intervention and juvenile offenders’ generation of main idea statements about informational text, which we used as an indicator of reading comprehension. Overall, students demonstrated considerable variability across conditions, which may have been related to contextual factors in the juvenile justice facility. Visual analysis of the results suggested a moderately positive, although variable, impact on students’ generation of main ideas. Implementing rigorously designed research in juvenile justice facilities remains challenging. We discuss implications for providing supplemental reading intervention for struggling readers within these settings.

A Review of Summarizing and Main Idea Interventions for Struggling Readers in Grades 3 Through 12: 1978–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Stevens ◽  
Sunyoung Park ◽  
Sharon Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Struggling Readers ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Single Case Design ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Comprehensive Search ◽  
Single Case Designs

This systematic review examines the effects of summarizing and main idea interventions on the reading comprehension outcomes of struggling readers in Grades 3 through 12. A comprehensive search identified 30 studies published in peer-reviewed journals between 1978 and 2016. Studies included struggling reader participants in Grades 3 through 12; targeted summarizing or main idea instruction; used an experimental, quasi-experimental, or single-case design; and included a reading comprehension outcome. A meta-analysis of 23 group design studies resulted in a statistically significant mean effect of 0.97. Group size, number of sessions, grade level, and publication year did not moderate treatment effect. Visual analysis of six single-case designs yielded strong evidence for retell measures and a range of evidence for short-answer comprehension measures. Findings suggest that main idea and summarizing instruction may improve struggling readers’ main idea identification and reading comprehension. Limitations include the lack of standardized measures and the unreported, changing description of the counterfactual.

The Rights of Children in Conflict with the Law in Ghana

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kwame Ame
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Female Circumcision ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Female Children ◽  
The Law ◽  
Key Questions

AbstractIn a country where implementing children's rights in general remains a major challenge, the idea of according rights to children in conflict with the law can be a daunting task. With too many other children's problems to deal with such as the millions of street children and child laborers, female circumcision, and sexual violence against female children, the needs and rights of juvenile offenders could easily be relegated to the bottom of the government's priorities for children. Nonetheless, by virtue of ratifying the UNCRC in 1990, Ghana has made a commitment to address the needs and respect the rights of children in Ghana including its juvenile offenders. Thirteen years after ratifying the CRC, the Ghanaian Parliament passed the Juvenile Justice Act 2003 (Act 653). What rights does the Act accord children in conflict with the law? Do the policies and practices of the new juvenile justice system measure up to the standards of the Convention? These are the key questions addressed in this paper. The paper concludes that vis a vis the CRC, the new Juvenile Justice Act looks good on paper but argues that there is a colossal gap between policy and practice. The paper ends with suggestions on how to effectively protect the rights of children in conflict with the law.

Alcohol and Drug Offenders in the Juvenile Justice System: Are There Differentials in Handling?

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles F. Frazier ◽  
Roberto Hugh Potter
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Drug Offenders ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Use ◽  
And Control ◽  
Drug And Alcohol

The American stance on law and control policy relating to alcohol and drug use has been replete with vacillations. Decriminalization and treatment oriented responses have emerged alongside continued support for laws calling for stiffer penalties and stepped up enforcement. In this situation, concern has grown over the possibilities that liberal legislation is subverted in actual practice to serve other purposes. It is feared offenders may be coerced into alternative sentences in the name of treatment and that such treatments may ultimately be more restrictive than traditional punitive dispositions. The present study examines the dispositions of juvenile offenders at three levels in the justice system. Alcohol and drug of fenders are compared to other offender types. Our data show no significant differentials in the severity of disposition alcohol and drug offenders receive. Moreover, the data show that youths violating drug and alcohol statutes are no more likely than other offender types at the same level of offense seriousness of being coerced into treatment programs.

Strategy Instruction to Support Struggling Readers in Comprehending Expository Main Ideas

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Carol Sue Englert ◽  
Troy V. Mariage
Keyword(s):  
Struggling Readers ◽  
Reading Intervention ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
Elementary Grades ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Comprehension Strategy ◽  
Question Prompts ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Main Ideas

This article describes a comprehension strategy that can be used by teachers to help students identify and construct the main ideas for expository texts. The BURNS Strategy (i.e., Box. Underline. Reread. Note. Summarize.) was developed as part of a larger reading intervention to improve the comprehension performance of struggling readers in the elementary grades. The BURNS strategy was designed to incorporate thinking scaffolds and question prompts to guide students through a thinking process that might help them construct the main ideas. This article reports on the teaching process and instructional scaffolds used in the intervention, and discusses implications for teaching main ideas in the intervention setting.

Psychometric Properties of the MAYSI-2 Among Latino Adolescent Offenders

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 1252-1268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Zannella ◽  
Jennifer Eno Louden ◽  
Patrick Kennealy ◽  
Tamara Kang
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Latino Youth ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses

The Massachusetts Youth Screening Inventory-Second Version (MAYSI-2) has been widely adopted by juvenile justice agencies to identify adolescents in the juvenile justice system who have a mental disorder. Despite this, evidence of the ability of the MAYSI-2 to generalize across different ethnic groups is limited. Because Latinos are overrepresented in the juvenile justice system, we examined the psychometric properties of each subscale in a sample of 472 Latino juvenile offenders using confirmatory factor analyses (CFA), Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and simple linear regressions. The CFA models suggest adequate fit for Latino youth, and the correlations and regressions show strong convergent validity with the K-SADS-PL for a number of MAYSI-2 subscales, lending support to the generalizability of the MAYSI-2 to Latino adolescents. These results may be particularly beneficial for juvenile justice system administrators who render mental health treatment recommendations for youth offenders of different ethnicities.

Examining the “Gang Penalty” in the Juvenile Justice System: A Focal Concerns Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
D’Andre Walker ◽  
Gabriel T. Cesar
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gang Membership ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Focal Concerns Perspective ◽  
Sentencing Outcomes

There are hundreds of thousands of juvenile gang members in the United States who are at heightened risk of criminal offending, violent victimization, and incarceration. Importantly, however, incarceration in itself is a lifelong risk factor for negative social outcomes. That said, little is known about the effects of gang membership on the sentencing outcomes of juvenile offenders. The primary research question of the current study is: How does self-reported gang membership influence the likelihood of incarceration relative to similarly situated non-gang-involved juvenile defendants? To address this question, the current study uses data obtained from the Pathways to Desistance study. In a sample of 1,067 serious adolescent offenders drawn from Wave I, results show that gang affiliation is a significant predictor of incarceration. This finding was consistent across the two study sites (Phoenix, AZ, and Philadelphia, PA), ultimately providing support for a “gang penalty” in juvenile sentencing outcomes. The implications for future research, juvenile justice policy, and youth development are discussed.

scholarly journals Comprehension Instruction for Tier 2 Early Learners: A Scaffolded Apprenticeship for Close Reading of Informational Text

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Troy V. Mariage ◽  
Carol Sue Englert ◽  
Mary F. Mariage
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Struggling Readers ◽  
Informational Text ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Tier 2 ◽  
Reading Curriculum ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Early Learners ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
The Impact

This exploratory case study used a mixed-methods pre-/post-intervention design to study the impact of an intervention on reading comprehension, annotation, and discussion quality. Five third-grade struggling readers who were part of a Tier 2 reading comprehension group were apprenticed into holding close-reading discussions of informational text. The teacher utilized an apprenticeship approach to provide explicit instruction and scaffolding to support four phases of close reading (discussion norms, main ideas, annotating text, discussion). Curriculum-based probes indicated that students improved their comprehension as measured by the total number of accurate main ideas recalled, the number of correct responses on quizzes, and the number and breadth of annotations. A standardized, norm-referenced measure of fluency (Reading Curriculum–Based Measurement [R-CBM]) and comprehension (MAZE) also showed improvements from fall to spring, with four of five participants changing levels from the winter to spring administration on the MAZE measure of comprehension. Discourse analysis revealed changes in discussion quality.

提高刑责年龄: 保护或伤害? (RAISING THE AGE OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY: PROTECTION OR HARM?)

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
铁荣 卢
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Substantial Improvement ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Protection Order

香港的刑事责任年龄是七岁，即七岁以下的儿童，是不会被推定为有罪。这刑责年龄是国际标准上最低之一。近日本地的法律改革委员会建议将它提高至十岁，香港儿童权利委员会更建议以十四岁为刑责年龄。提高刑责年龄的后果，是所有在法定刑责年龄以下的违法少年都不再需要负法律责任，他们不需要经警司警诫或司法审讯，极其量只能由少年法庭引用保护令来保护他们。本文讨论影响青少年犯罪的三种重要因素，现时处理违法少年的方法，和在研究提高刑责年龄的可行性时，在少年司法制度中需要考虑的因素，特别是在没有彻底改善现行的少年司法制度时，广泛地运用保护令所带出之问题，最后建议一些处理方法。 In Hong Kong, the age of criminal responsibility is seven, i.e. any person aged below seven shall not be convicted of a crime. This age is one of the lowest in the world. Recently, the Law Reform Commission has recommended to raise the age to ten; the Committee on Children's Rights even suggested raising it to 14. If the age of criminal responsibility is to be raised, juvenile offenders would no longer be cautioned by the police or prosecuted in the juvenile court, although care or protection order can be granted o them. This article outlines the major factors affecting juvenile crimes and the current methods in handling juvenile offenders. It also identifies several crucial factors for consideration, in particular the negative effect of using care or protection order when no substantial improvement in the juvenile justice system has been made, if the age of criminal responsibility is to be raised. Several recommendations to improve the juvenile justice system are highlighted too.

A Critique of Diversionary Juvenile Justice

1978 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Bullington ◽  
James Sprowls ◽  
Daniel Katkin ◽  
Mark Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Troubled Youth ◽  
Parens Patriae

The increasingly zealous support today for diversion of youth from the juvenile justice system is a consequence of several widely held notions: ( 1) Traditional strategies for dealing with juvenile offenders have not worked; ( 2) informal diversion is used both widely and effectively now; and ( 3) the most humane treatment of troubled youth is based upon the parens patriae philosophy of justice. Yet, the authors contend, diversion may be seen as potentially dangerous and harmful, and they present several arguments against expansion of diversionary services: (1) The concept's ambiguity allows many to promote expansion of the juvenile justice system in the form of diversion "to" other programs, while true diversion "from" the system is nonexistent; ( 2) the goals of diversionary programs-such as elimination of stigmatizing labels and formal duplica tion of existing informal processes-are unattainable; ( 3) formal diversion is incompatible with due process ideals. Until these difficulties have been resolved, diversionary options should be viewed with caution.

The Exploration of Risk and Protective Score Differences Across Juvenile Offending Career Types and Their Effects on Recidivism

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Cox ◽  
Peter Kochol ◽  
Jennifer Hedlund
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Assessment Data ◽  
Juvenile Offending ◽  
Chronic Offenders ◽  
Court Referrals

Despite an abundance of research on serious and violent juvenile offenders, few studies have linked juvenile offending career categories to juvenile court risk assessments and future offending. This study uses juvenile court referrals and assessment data to replicate earlier categorizations of serious, violent, and chronic offenders; to examine risk and protective score differences across these categories; and to assess whether risk and protective score constructs differentially predict adult criminality across these offender categories. Based on a sample of 9,859 juvenile offenders who aged out of Connecticut’s juvenile justice system between 2005 and 2009, we found that (1) our categorization of juvenile career types mirrored earlier work, (2) comparing risk and protective factors across and within juvenile career types identified distinct patterns, and (3) the juvenile risk and protective assessment subscales were not predictive of adult arrests for chronic offenders but were predictive for nonchronic juvenile career types.

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