Psychological assessment ofjuveniles being considered for waiver to adult criminal courts often requires systematic evaluation of dangerousness, maturity-sophistication, and amenability to treatment (ATX). Despite the importance of these constructs to the evaluation of juveniles, little is known about the criteria that constitute these three constructs. This study was designed to assist in clarifying the constructs of dangerousness, maturity-sophistication, and ATX that typically guide juvenile transfers. Generally, prototypicality ratings were aligned with the current literature on dangerousness, sophistication-maturity, and ATX.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-07-11T12:27:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Nathalí Estevez Grillo.pdf: 1076022 bytes, checksum: e76e3c360423c51e69cd36e542d6663e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-11T12:27:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nathalí Estevez Grillo.pdf: 1076022 bytes, checksum: e76e3c360423c51e69cd36e542d6663e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-26 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / This study refers to getting to know the conditions in which the girls experience the social-educational measure of detention in order to expose the opressions suffered by them, in the context of an institution as Fundação CASA (Adolescent Social-Educational Attendance Center), depicting how they inhabit CASA Chiquinha Gonzaga as to identify the resistance tactics of the female adolescents who are deprived of freedom. The insertion as a professional through Projeto Guri at CASA Chiquinha Gonzaga – the largest female social-educational center in the state and the only one that holds the attendance program for mothers and their babies (PAMI) constituted as a research field where observations were made from the time spent together and the description of developed activities added to interviews with three teenage girls who have already finished the detention measure. The research draws its inspiration from the participatory action research methodology and also from the feminist methodology and sets off from theoretical frameworks such as critical criminology, the intersectionality of black feminism and affectivity as source of knowledge. The resistance tactics were debated through the axes of musicalitys, materialitys and affections around / O escopo do trabalho refere-se a conhecer as condições em que as meninas vivenciam a medida socioeducativa de internação, para expor as opressões por elas sofridas, no contexto de uma instituição como a Fundação CASA, descrevendo como habitam o CASA Chiquinha Gonzaga, a fim de identificar as táticas de resistência das adolescentes que estão privadas de liberdade. A inserção como profissional através do Projeto Guri no CASA Chiquinha Gonzaga – maior centro socioeducativo feminino no estado e o único que abriga o Programa de Atendimento Materno Infantil (PAMI) – constituiu-se como campo de pesquisa, onde foram feitas observações a partir da convivência e da descrição de atividades desenvolvidas, somado às entrevistas realizadas com três adolescentes que já terminaram de cumprir a medida de internação. A pesquisa inspira-se tanto na metodologia da pesquisa ação participante como na metodologia feminista e, parte de marcos teóricos como a criminologia crítica, a interseccionalidade do feminismo negro e da afetividade como fonte de conhecimento. As táticas de resistência foram discutidas através dos eixos de musicalidades, materialidades e afetos que circulam

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-07-25T11:55:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Taísa de Pádua Neves.pdf: 1187204 bytes, checksum: e998cab411a73e0865da4f1f26bd2d7f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-25T11:55:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Taísa de Pádua Neves.pdf: 1187204 bytes, checksum: e998cab411a73e0865da4f1f26bd2d7f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This work aims at analyzing the main academic production trends on socio-educational policies defined by the Child and Youth Statute (ECA) presented in the bibliography of academic works produced in Brazil between the years of 2013 and 2016 and made available at CAPES digital bank of theses. Its primary focus lies on the academic production that establishes a connection between such policies and school education, totalizing a corpus of 216 works to be analyzed. To that end, a protocol of indicators chosen according to the investigation goals – based on the cultural materialism perspective of William (2000 and 2001) – has been used to identify who investigates socio-educational policies from an institutional point of view, what exactly is investigated, and how such investigation takes place. Such data has fed the statistical treatment software Sphinx iQ2, enabling the development of charts and graphs to analyze investigative trends. Results showed that there is a great number of works in public institutions, mainly is the Southeast-South area, primarily in the State of São Paulo; the works on socio-educational policies focus on five great areas: law, citizenship, education, psychology, social services, and social sciences; researchers address mainly restrictive policies to the detriment of milder ones, such as reprimands or damage repairing; the available data regarding the research methods is very limited; works that establish a connection with school education, despite its lack of published material, show that restrictive policies are the most commonly used; there is a great number of exploratory researches; and the most commonly adopted collection procedure is documentation survey / O objetivo da presente investigação é o de, por meio de balanço bibliográfico da produção de dissertações e teses sobre medidas socioeducativas, produzidas no Brasil no período de 2013 a 2016, existente no Banco de Teses da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), analisar as principais tendências da produção acadêmica sobre medidas socioeducativas definidas pelo ECA, em especial aquelas que relacionam essas medidas com a educação escolar, cujo levantamento da produção redundou no corpus de 216 títulos. Com esse intuito, a coleta de dados utilizou-se de protocolo com indicadores escolhidos de acordo com os objetivos da investigação, que, em consonância com a perspectiva do materialismo cultural de Williams (2000 e 2011), consiste em identificar, nessa série histórica: quem investiga, do ponto de vista institucional, o que se investiga e como são investigadas as medidas socioeducativas. Esses dados alimentaram o software de tratamento estatístico Sphinx iQ2, possibilitando a produção de tabelas e gráficos para a análise das tendências investigativas, cujos principais resultados foram: Há grande concentração de produção nas instituições públicas, concentrando-se no eixo sudeste-sul, em destaque o estado de São Paulo; os temas das produções sobre medidas socioeducativas se concentram em cinco grandes áreas, sendo elas direito e cidadania, educação, psicologia, serviço social e ciências sociais; as medidas restritivas são as mais abordadas nas pesquisas, em detrimento das medidas mais brandas como a advertência e a obrigação de reparar o dano; os dados referentes aos procedimentos de pesquisa utilizados pelos autores nas teses de doutorado e dissertações de mestrado abordadas são muito limitados, assim como a análise feita nessa dissertação, a qual abordou somente os resumos das pesquisas e não o trabalho na íntegra; quanto as produções que estabeleceram relação com educação escolar, apesar de sua pouca incidência, pode-se indicar que as medidas restritivas são as mais abordadas; há grande concentração em pesquisas do tipo exploratórias; o procedimento de coleta mais utilizado foi o levantamento documental

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is recognized as a public health problem with consequences affecting all levels of the ecological model. In recent years it has been recognized that up to 40% of reported sexual offenses occur at the hands of adolescent offenders (Burton, 2000), who are defined as children aged 12-18 years. In recent years, research has suggested that attachment deficits contribute to sexual offending behavior in adolescence. The current study augments the sparse research with adolescent offenders and by exploring of the participant's perceived attachment to important others (mother/mother figures, father/father figures, and peers/friends). Participants included 101 Juvenile sex offenders (JSO) and 97 Juvenile Delinquents (JD) detained in Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) facilities during the summer of 2010. Significant differences were found in adolescents' attachment to father/father figures in both overall attachment and a perceived degree of trust. Additionally JSO also showed a higher level of alienation from father/father figures and lower in overall perceived degree of trust with all important others. These findings may provide an opportunity for early intervention strategies, as well as support programs designed to strengthen or develop connections between adolescent offenders and positive male role models to enhance the effectiveness of juvenile sex offender treatment.

Service provision in both adult and juvenile correctional settings is an understudied phenomenon. Research has evaluated the use of evidence-based practices (EBP) in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse among adults and juveniles. Young, Farrell, Henderson and Taxman (2009) highlight the role of organizational factors including climate and culture, opportunities for staff training, resources, administrator attitudes and interagency collaboration in the application of EBP in correctional settings. The Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) aims to provide services to youth under the guise of EBP. Literature in the field of juvenile justice is limited in scope in areas of organizational factors, which are likely to influence the allocation of mental health treatment to youth. This study addressed this gap in existing research by using thematic analysis of focus group data with 28 OYA employees representing seven facilities. Data on 594 youth is offered to illustrate the variability of youth characteristics in OYA facilities. Facility data reflective of youth management and operations is presented to suggest context for staff observations and perceptions of how youth are identified for treatment. Results indicate staff knowledge about treatment and consistency in training along with frequency of organizational change affect climates in which treatment recommendations are made. Findings from this study will be beneficial to OYA as they attempt to meet the growing needs of mental health populations and address ongoing changes to agency staff, culture and climate. Implications from this study will contribute to literature on treatment service provision in juvenile correctional settings.

Many youth are able to be successful in the traditional school setting. Large numbers are not successful. Dropout rates are alarming. There is little research that examines the drop out problem from the perspective of the youth. Traditionally programs that are designed to help have been designed by adults. This qualitative study focused on the voices of youth. Participants in this study were male clients aged fifteen to seventeen who were adjudicated and court mandated to receive treatment in a drug treatment center. All of the participants had a history of delinquency and poor academic achievement. They had dropped out of school prior to entering the treatment program. This qualitative study addressed two questions: 1. What are the factors that prevent at-risk youth from being successful in school? 2. What can schools do to help these youth be successful at school? This study provided information about what schools could have done to help these youth be more successful. It also looked at their current academic success in the treatment program as a possible model to help other youth. Five youth volunteered to participate in the study. All interviews were confidential. Interviews were also conducted with a probation officer, program administrator, teacher, and a parent that had a youth in the program in order to triangulate results. The voices of students supported the literature with respect to the factors that contribute to students being at risk for delinquency and dropping out of school. Some of these factors include issues surrounding anger management, academic issues, nurturing at school, family situations, school at a treatment center, hiring teachers, childhood experiences, drug use, obtaining drugs, crime and drugs, treatment programs, dual diagnosis, communication and issues surrounding success and failure. The strength of this qualitative research project lies in the fact that the real voices of students did support the quantitative literature in this field. / Graduation date: 2004

Current research on girls and delinquency has brought to awareness the often stressful and traumatic lives of girls. Furthermore, the last three decades have seen an increase in the proportion of girls entering the Juvenile Justice System and an increase in the proportion of girl’s court ordered to attend military structured treatment programs. Developed with boys in mind, many researchers in the area of female delinquency believe that military structured treatment programs are less effectiveness for girls. Thus, the goal of the current study is to consider the experience of girls in a military structured residential treatment facility. Additionally, this study sought to answer the following questions posed by the administrative personnel of this program: 1) Why do staff members report more difficulties when working with the girls? 2) Why are girls more emotionally labile than boys? 3) What changes can be made to the program to increase girls’ success in the program? Participants in this study were referred to a military structured residential treatment program. At the time of the study, four girls, ages 14 to 16, participated in the study. In addition to the girls’ participation, staff members including drill instructors, program officers, teachers, health professionals, and administrative staff participated in the study. The current study utilized an ethnographic approach to explore and identify information that may be useful in better understanding the research questions. The Listening Guide Method (Brown & Gilligan, 1992) was utilized to conduct a narrative analysis of the interviews with both the girls and staff members. Results demonstrated that while in the program, services provided were uneven in both scope and quality. For example, lack of training among staff members resulted in missed opportunities to teach the girls necessary skills that would enable them to tolerate emotional distress while in the program and at home. In order to better meet the needs of the girls, it is recommended that this program strive to integrate both military and therapeutic programming, and educate and train all its staff members in the delivery of gender-responsive programming. / text

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There is an ongoing and polarizing discourse with respect to the impartiality of the criminal justice system in its transactions with visible minority populations. Much of the controversy centers on the cause of the controversy centers disproportionate number of minority youth cases in North America and the U.K. criminal justice systems. In Canada, there is a dearth of research into the overrepresentation of Black youths in the Young Offender System. An examination of Montreal's Young Offender court records from 1992--1998 (n = 1714) reveals that race is a strong predictor of charge (p < .05) and disposition (p < .0001), controlling for age, language and birthplace. The study further finds that Black youth are charged with more violent offenses and receive more restrictive dispositions. Impact and implications for youth, the criminal justice system and social work are discussed. Further research including socioeconomic factors and prior history is recommended.