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Positive What? Reframing the Goals of Juvenile Justice Interventions. Jeffrey A. Butts John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting Chicago, IL November 16, 2012. Juvenile Crime Decline?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Research and Evaluation Center
Jeffrey A. ButtsJohn Jay College of Criminal JusticeCity University of New York
American Society of Criminology Annual MeetingChicago, ILNovember 16, 2012
Positive What? Reframing the Goals of Juvenile Justice Interventions
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Juvenile Crime Decline?
Serious, violent youth crime continues to fall.
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Juvenile Crime Decline?
Violent youth crime continues to account for a very small portion of all arrests.
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Juvenile Crime Decline?
Juvenile court caseloads have not declined as much as youth arrests.
Thus, court caseloads today are increasingly made up of less serious offenses.
What’s the plan?
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Effective Intervention Must Include
Dual Focus on: Risk Factors Protective
Factors
Parallel Efforts to: Generate Evidence of Impact Facilitate Successful Replication
Maximum Use of: Family Resources Community
Partners
Logic
Economics
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If our Goal is Effectiveness…When choosing interventions for youth in the
justice system, we must be AGNOSTIC -- open to new facts
Advocating one intervention over another based on turf, convenience, bias or financial interests is simply wrong
Central goal of intervention is to ensure community safety by changing youth behavior -- NOT merely to deliver a particular type of service or to ensure the financial stability of providers
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Grounded in Science of Adolescence
There are plenty of good reasons to believe that using the principles of adolescent development to frame interventions will help to reduce youth crime.
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How do we transform youth justice systems to focus on practical ways of attaching youth to assets and facilitating positive youth development?
Focusing Youth Justice on PYD8
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Positive Youth Development Strengths and assets Attachment, engagement, and socialization Usefulness and belonging Broad system of community-based supports Allow all youth to experience opportunities and activities that youth in wealthy communities take for granted:• Supportive
relationships• Rewards for work • Skill development• Success in learning
• Physical activity and sports• Music and the arts• Civic engagement• Community/political
involvement
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Community Network for Youth DevelopmentSan Francisco
Promising and Effective Practices National Youth Employment Coalition
40 Developmental Assets
Youth Development Framework
National Clearinghouse and Families & Youth
National Research Council
Institute for Applied Research in Youth DevelopmentTufts University
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Not Adapted for Y
outh Offenders
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2010 Report
Butts, Jeffrey A., Gordon Bazemore, and Aundra Saa Meroe (2010)
Positive youth justice: Framing justice interventions using the concepts of positive youth development
Washington, DC: Coalition for Juvenile Justice.
www.juvjustice.org
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PYJ Model: Positive Youth Justice ASSETS
Learning/Doing Attaching/Belonging
Work Activities Outcomes
Activities Outcomes
Education Activities Outcomes
Activities Outcomes
DOMAINS Relationships
Activities Outcomes
Activities Outcomes
Community Activities Outcomes
Activities Outcomes
Health Activities Outcomes
Activities Outcomes
Creativity Activities Outcomes
Activities Outcomes
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Contact Information
Jeffrey A. Butts, Ph.D.Director, Research & Evaluation Center
John Jay College of Criminal JusticeCity University of New York
http://johnjayresearch.org/rec