scholarly journals The Green Brigade: The Educational Effects of a Community-based Horticultural Program on the Horticultural Knowledge and Environmental Attitude of Juvenile Offenders

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Cammack ◽  
Tina M. Waliczek ◽  
Jayne M. Zajicek
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Diversion Program ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Exam Scores

The Green Brigade horticultural program is a community-based treatment and diversion program for juvenile offenders. The program is used for vocational training and rehabilitation. The objectives of this study were to determine if participation in the Green Brigade program improved the horticultural knowledge and the environmental attitudes of participating juvenile offenders. Participants of the Green Brigade program significantly improved their horticultural knowledge exam scores as a result of participating in the program. Participants also had significant improvements in their environmental attitude scores after completing the program. However, participants attending the Green Brigade program less than 60% of the time had significantly more negative environmental attitude scores than participants attending more frequently. Further analyses showed the program was equally effective at improving environmental attitude scores for all participants regardless of gender, ethnicity, age or grade in school.

scholarly journals The Green Brigade: The Psychological Effects of a Community-based Horticultural Program on the Self-development Characteristics of Juvenile Offenders

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Cammack ◽  
Tina M. Waliczek ◽  
Jayne M. Zajicek
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Diversion Program ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Plant Materials ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Attitude Toward School

The Green Brigade horticultural program is a community-based treatment and diversion program for juvenile offenders. The objective of this study was to determine if participation in the Green Brigade program improved the self-esteem, locus of control, interpersonal relationships and attitude toward school of participating juvenile offenders. Participants in the Green Brigade program had significantly lower scores than the comparative group on measures of self-esteem, interpersonal relationships and attitude toward school prior to and after completion of the Green Brigade program. Although the Green Brigade participants' scores were significantly lower than the comparative group's scores, the means were still considered `normal' for their age group. However, adolescents participating in coed sessions, where the hands-on activities involved plant materials, displayed more positive interpersonal relationship scores than participants in an all male session where the hands-on activities focused on the installation of hardscape materials and a lack of plant materials. No significant differences were found in rates of repeated crimes of juvenile offenders participating in the Green Brigade program when compared to juvenile offenders participating in traditional probationary programming.

A Diversion Program for Juvenile Offenders: The Experience of Ingham County, Michigan

1980 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Bauer ◽  
Gilda Bordeaux ◽  
John Cole ◽  
William S. Davidson ◽  
Arnoldo Martinez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Diversion Program

The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Recidivism in a Sample of Juvenile Offenders in Community-Based Treatment

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (11) ◽  
pp. 1210-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin T. Wolff ◽  
Michael T. Baglivio ◽  
Alex R. Piquero
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Juvenile Justice Policy ◽  
The Relationship

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been identified as a key risk factor for a range of negative life outcomes, including delinquency. Much less is known about how exposure to negative experiences relates to continued offending among juvenile offenders. In this study, we examine the effect of ACEs on recidivism in a large sample of previously referred youth from the State of Florida who were followed for 1 year after participation in community-based treatment. Results from a series of Cox hazard models suggest that ACEs increase the risk of subsequent arrest, with a higher prevalence of ACEs leading to a shorter time to recidivism. The relationship between ACEs and recidivism held quite well in demographic-specific analyses. Implications for empirical research on the long-term effects of traumatic childhood events and juvenile justice policy are discussed.

Forensic Mental Health Services and Competence to Stand Trial

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Ronald Roesch
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Competence To Stand Trial ◽  
State Mental Hospital ◽  
Diversion Program ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Psychology And Law ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
State Mental

This chapter traces the author’s entry into the field of psychology and law in the late 1960s and 1970s. His interests began when he was an undergraduate working in a state mental hospital during the early years of the deinstitutionalization movement, followed by his involvement in creating a pretrial diversion program while he was a graduate student. The chapter then turns to the author’s seminal studies of competence to stand trial and reviews the advances in the field that have led to more structured, reliable, and valid assessments of competence as well as community-based alternatives for assessment and treatment. The chapter concludes with an assessment of progress and ongoing challenges.

Environmental Attitudes and Household Electricity Use among Budapest Residents

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Dúll ◽  
Béla Janky
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Housing Type ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Societal Culture ◽  
Electricity Use ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies

Abstract: This paper addresses the question of whether the evidence on positive relationship between environmental attitudes and household energy consumption in advanced post-industrial societies can be extended to emerging economies. In this study, we focused on electricity use and utilized multivariate regression to test the above hypothesis on a sample of residents of Óbuda (Budapest) in February 2011. The analysis suggests that the findings on the positive environmental attitude-behaviour relationship in advanced post-industrial societies can be extended to some (relatively affluent) communities in post-socialist societies. Our data also showed that the effects of housing type and demography are much larger compared to the effects of the attitudes. We emphasize that our findings do not provide evidence against the hypothesis on the interaction between the effects of societal culture and individual attitudes on pro-environmental behaviour.

Reintegrative Police Surveillance of Juvenile Offenders: Forging an Urban Model

1994 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Guarino-Ghezzi
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Community Resource ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Correctional Programs ◽  
Victims Of Crime ◽  
High Crime ◽  
Criminal Justice Response

This article reviews patterns of police behavior vis-à-vis juvenile offenders and proposes a model called reintegrative surveillance, which is an integration of community-based corrections and community policing. Neither community-based corrections nor community policing is designed to handle serious, repeat offenders who are returning to high-crime neighborhoods. Police need to reexamine their roles to ensure that (a) policies of maintaining order and consequences of disorder are not ambiguous or misleading to youths and (b) order maintenance and law enforcement practices do not interfere with police ability to protect youths as victims of crime. Both tendencies are clearly widespread problems, and neither will be addressed as long as the “worst” neighborhoods and youths are considered beyond salvation. Correctional programs need to reevaluate police as a pivotal community resource. Reintegrative surveillance must include a gradational, consistent criminal justice response, protection, vigilance, interagency goal setting, and agency coordination.

Initiating requests during community-based vocational training by students with mental retardation and sensory impairments

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Wolff Heller ◽  
Margaret H. Allgood ◽  
Steven Ware ◽  
Susan E. Arnold ◽  
Melanie D. Castelle
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Sensory Impairments
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