A Multilevel Examination of Risk/Need Change Scores, Community Context, and Successful Reentry of Committed Juvenile Offenders

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Baglivio ◽  
Kevin T. Wolff ◽  
Katherine Jackowski ◽  
Mark A. Greenwald
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Contextual Effects ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Residential Placement ◽  
Change Scores ◽  
Dynamic Risk ◽  
Community Contexts

Current theory and practice dictates the use of risk/needs assessment to guide programming to reduce reoffending. Limited research has examined assessment change scores and recidivism, none examining whether such changes moderate the effects of deleterious community contexts. We examine a multiyear statewide sample of juvenile offenders returning to the community from residential placement ( N = 12,302). We address whether changes in dynamic risk/needs scores predict official recidivism upon return, community socioeconomic contexts predict recidivism, and which risk/needs changes moderate the effects of context. Findings reveal 6 of the 17 change scores affect reoffending, context matters, and some change scores moderate contextual effects.

The Effects of Changes in Dynamic Risk on Reoffending among Serious Juvenile Offenders Returning from Residential Placement

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Baglivio ◽  
Kevin T. Wolff ◽  
Alex R. Piquero ◽  
Matt DeLisi ◽  
Michael G. Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Residential Placement ◽  
Dynamic Risk

scholarly journals Preparing Teachers of English Language Learners: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca López ◽  
Martin Scanlan ◽  
Becky Gundrum
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
English Language Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Reading Outcomes ◽  
Level Of Training

In this study, we examined the degree to which the requirements in each state’s teacher education programs reflect current theory and practice for teachers of ELLs in their coursework, and how these requirements in turn are related to 4th grade Hispanic ELL’s reading outcomes on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. We found that required coursework on English language development and assessment were positively related to Hispanic ELLs' reading outcomes. Moreover, states that require both specialist certification, and all teachers to have some level of training to meet the needs of ELLs, also tend to have higher levels of achievement than states that do not have these requirements.

scholarly journals Urban Gardening in the Crisis Conjuncture

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-172
Author(s):  
Christopher Maughan ◽  
Christopher Maughan
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Alternative Food ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Urban Gardening ◽  
Alternative Food Movements

Urban gardening finds itself at a juncture – not only are crises caused and exacerbated by the industrial food system urgently demonstrating the need for more localised, sustainable, and democratically-determined food systems, but alternative food movements are increasingly negotiating crises of their own. Critical Foodscapes was a one-day conference part-funded by Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and the Food GRP. The conference was put together with the intention of bringing a ‘critical studies’ approach to the emerging research area of urban community food growing; namely, to put critical – but constructive – pressure on some of the assumptions which underlie current theory and practice of the various forms of urban food growing. This article offers some reflections on the conference itself as well as on the prospects for urban gardening more generally.

A Haplotype Analysis System for Genes Discovery of Common Diseases

2011 ◽  
pp. 590-604
Author(s):  
Takashi Kido
Keyword(s):  
Haplotype Analysis ◽  
Complex Disease ◽  
Association Studies ◽  
Genetic Association Studies ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Discovery Research ◽  
Common Diseases ◽  
The Common ◽  
Analysis System

This chapter introduces computational methods for detecting complex disease loci with haplotype analysis. It argues that the haplotype analysis, which plays a major role in the study of population genetics, can be computationally modeled and systematically implemented as a means for detecting causative genes of complex diseases. In this chapter, the author provides a review of issues on haplotype analysis and proposes the analysis system which integrates a comprehensive spectrum of functions on haplotype analysis for supporting disease association studies. The explanation of the system and some real examples of the haplotype analysis will not only provide researchers with better understanding of current theory and practice of genetic association studies, but also present a computational perspective on the gene discovery research for the common diseases.

A Haplotype Analysis System for Genes Discovery of Common Diseases

2011 ◽  
pp. 214-230
Author(s):  
Takashi Kido
Keyword(s):  
Haplotype Analysis ◽  
Complex Disease ◽  
Association Studies ◽  
Genetic Association Studies ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Discovery Research ◽  
Common Diseases ◽  
The Common ◽  
Analysis System

This chapter introduces computational methods for detecting complex disease loci with haplotype analysis. It argues that the haplotype analysis, which plays a major role in the study of population genetics, can be computationally modeled and systematically implemented as a means for detecting causative genes of complex diseases. In this chapter, the author provides a review of issues on haplotype analysis and proposes the analysis system which integrates a comprehensive spectrum of functions on haplotype analysis for supporting disease association studies. The explanation of the system and some real examples of the haplotype analysis will not only provide researchers with better understanding of current theory and practice of genetic association studies, but also present a computational perspective on the gene discovery research for the common diseases.

Picturing Fractions

1947 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 385-386
Author(s):  
Ann Lawlor ◽  
Caroline Hatton Clark
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
York City ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Third ◽  
Child Education

My class in Methods of Teaching Arithmetic at Child Education Foundation, New York City, is composed of students in the third year of their teachertraining course. The students have had no teaching experience except a little student teaching. Their arithmetic course is a three-strand course. One strand deals with studying and evaluating current theory and practice in the teaching of arithmetic.

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