...Conduct Disorder Samantha Nitcher Pittsburg State University Conduct Disorder Description and Behaviors of the Disorder Conduct disorder is described as a child or adolescent who has experienced abuse in the past or is presently experiencing it and is starting to show one or all of the following behaviors: impetuous behavior, drug use, and criminal activity (A.D.A.M., 2011). Other behaviors that might start to show include: aggression to people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness, lying or stealing, and violation of rules (AACAP, 2012). Diagnosing As stated in the DSM-IV by the American Academy of Family Physicians, there are an abundant amount of things that could fit the criteria for conduct disorder. Some examples are a person who bullies people or animals, has a weapon that could seriously harm someone or something, has forced someone into sexual activity, has destroyed other people’s property, has shoplifted, stays out even though parents say not to, runs away from home, and many more (AAFP, 2001). Other forms of diagnosing include obtaining a detailed history of the child’s behavior which is provided by anyone who comes in contact with that child, just observing the child, or even conducting psychological tests (Hopkins). There are two subtypes of conduct disorder. The first one is childhood onset and the second is adolescent onset. Between the two of these, the childhood onset is by far the worst one. Childhood onset is labeled as the child...
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...Definition and Types of Conduct Disorder Brian is 14 and has conduct disorder and depression. He lives with his Uncle and Aunt who have practically taken care of him since birth and who have adopted him. Occasionally his mom visits, but not regularly and she does not know who his father is. Brian’s uncle and aunt are the head of a “team” which cares for him, involving respite foster parents, Brian’s second Uncle and his grandparents or adoptive parents who have fixed weekends to have him stay with them. Currently, Brian is functioning, staying out of any major trouble and his grades have been improving. After his last sentencing, his adoptive parents were able to get better assistance from his probation officer and a more flexible probation agreement and in general Brian receives more supervision than his adopted parent’s four year old. Last year, he was hospitalized after he cut his wrist when he was caught drinking after breaking into someone’s house and has been found to have killed the neighbors’ cat or stray cats that wondered into his back yard and has stayed out at night until after three in the morning and found in a neighboring bad neighborhood. Brian is currently a member of a group at school who volunteer to help build houses for the poor and he generally does well except for when he broke into one of his teacher’s cars however, since Brian’s parents have included everyone in his life, including adults at school, they knew to watch out for such actions and were able...
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...Social and Multicultural Psychology Christy Martin University of Phoenix Social Psychology is a branch of psychology that attempts to discover why people will still respond in certain ways when the presence of others is actual, implied or even imagined (Fiske 2010 p 4). Social psychologists look at how the environment affects how people behave. Many people believe that the behavior of others (and themselves) is related to how their personalities are structured. Social psychologists believe that this is not correct and that the environment can cause people to behavior in a certain way. This concept is called situationalism and this is the type of social phenomena that social psychologists attempt to study and explain (p 7). The strategies that social psychologists use to study things such as situationalism are descriptive research, correlational research, and experimental research. Below is a description of each research method and an example of each. Descriptive research does not compare variables as other methods typically do. Descriptive research only looks at one variable at a time. Simple questions are posed in descriptive research such as the statistics of car accidents on a major interstate, or the pregnancy rate among female teenagers in a particular high school (Fiske 2010 p 53). Correlation research does compare variables and attempts to figure out if a change in one variable will affect another variable (Fiske 2010 p 56). A simple example of this...
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...the last several years, Texas juvenile incarceration and crime rates have substantially declined. In 2006, there were 4,800 juveniles at Texas Youth Commission facilities, (Marc Levin, 2010) nearly all of whom were housed in large institutions until an abuse scandal surfaced and redirected more youths into community-based juvenile probation programs. As of recently, and since redirecting to these programs, juvenile incarceration and crimes declined to 2,259 in 2014. (Marc Levin, 2010). Many people think of the juvenile justice system as a penal system similar to that of adults, but for children. While there are similarities between the two, there are also differences. The adult system focuses on public safety and punishment for criminal conduct. The juvenile correctional system places an emphasis on rehabilitation. Even when it is necessary to incarcerate youths, the setting is not punitive but rather is protective and designed to educate youths about discipline, values, and work ethics therefore guiding them towards becoming productive citizens. In the state of Texas, The Dallas County Juvenile Department believes that for certain youth’s, treatment rather than punishment alone is the most effective strategy in avoiding future involvement with the juvenile justice system. The decline in juvenile incarceration is great but, here is what we are doing wrong, most juvenile justice, child welfare, and school resources currently focus on adolescent juvenile offenders and problem...
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...The Future of Juvenile Justice Clinton Hardy, Dominique Whitlock CJA /374 March 18, 2012 Bruce Clingan The Future of Juvenile Justice The state of juvenile justice system in American is at a crossroad. It is important that the states take more of an imitative at the local level to ensure the important components of the juvenile justice system are being met. This is a proposal for the juvenile justice system to adopt some of the aspects of the adult system by building a state of the art facility that houses probation, home confinement, work release, and community service all in one place. The necessity for these services is crucial to the commitment to rehabilitation of youthful offenders. This project is a joint venture with the Department of Corrections, the city government, and the Department of Juvenile Justice. There are three areas that this proposal will address as far as social need and the explanation for these services. The three areas of deficiency that have to be addressed in relation to delinquency are family life and financial need, diagnosis of mental disabilities, and the likelihood of offending based on ethnic background. The purpose of this new facility is not to punish, but to get to the root of the reason for offending. Mental Health of Juvenile Offenders The most effective way to diagnose the problems associated with juveniles who offend or continue to offend is to make sure that all offenders, at one point or another, have had a mental health...
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... Corrections and Treatment 2 There are some community based treatments that are used for juveniles that are set up to help them. The first one I would like to talk about is Functional Family Therapy – this targets 11-18 year old at risk for and/or preventing delinquency, violence, substance abuse, conduct disorder (CD), oppositional defiant disorder (OPD), and disruptive behavior disorder (DBD). Often youths present with additional comorbid challenges such as depression. This takes 8-15 sessions of direct service time for commonly referred youth and their families generally it takes no more than a total of 26 sessions to help the juvenile. Usually there are teams of at least 2 people to each clients in-home, clinic, school, juvenile court,. The people that are usually involved with this are trained probation officers, mental health technicians, degreed mental health professionals. This program effectively treats adolescents with CD, ODD, DBD, alcohol and other drug abuse disorders and those who are delinquent and/or violent ("Center For The Study And Prevention Of Violence Institute Of Behavioral Science", 1998 (updated 03/2007). I think that this program is one that would be most effective because of not only does it involve the juvenile but it also includes the entire family. Doing this will help the juvenile face the problems that put them in this place to begin with,...
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...Juvenile Services Comparison Archie Parks CJA/374 December 14, 2012 Steve Kurrle Juvenile Services Comparison Introduction For this comparison paper I have chosen to study two Juvenile programs that are actively involved in Norfolk Public School and work directly with student’s who have active cases in the Department of Juvenile Justice. This comparison will conduct research on the Youth Challenged Advised and Positively Promoted program (YCAPP) and the Tidewater Youth Services Commission (TYSC). The criteria for comparison is how both programs work to reduce juvenile crime, the major goals, objectives, and core beliefs of each program, who are the key participants are and what services they provide youths. In addition using the information that was researched a determination of which program is more effective in reducing crime and why will be discussed. Who They Are Both the YCAPP program and the Tidewater Youth Services Commission work with at risk youth to positively motivate them into the best person they can be. The direct beliefs responsibilities and goals for each is given below: a. YCAPP: YCAPP is a nonprofit organization who beliefs that youth no matter their circumstances and past transgressions can be positively motivated into productive members of society with bright futures. The YCAPP mission statement is to provide quality support and education to families in their natural environments through collaboration, positive inclusive interventions, and...
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...Even though Juvenile delinquent behavior and crimes is at its lowest in 38 years there is still a need for continuous effort and case management to keep our youth off the street (Paulson, 2013). Over the last thirty eight years, juvenile crime is at its lowest level, yet there is still a significant need to find and retain resources and commitment. Even with this change in delinquent deviancy we would still like to see an effort on the deterrence towards juvenile deviancy with still bigger commitments for those of professional case management on juvenile delinquency. Those working in Juvenile Case Management must still posse a level of knowledge required to become a skilled social worker who contains knowledge of not only family and their environmental settings but also in juvenile justice, family law and practice, youth education and awareness, with an array of so many other personal attributes to keep these youth off the street. According to the National Institute of Juvenile Justice Research in Action Newsletter (1999), traditional case management consists of a social or mental health worker who secures and coordinates continued social, mental health, medical, and other services for a client (Healey). With the deinstitutionalize of inmates in 1970 the mental health workers found new ways and initiative to coordinate efforts in an attempt to connect social services while monitoring recent released inmates where different agencies were able to derive distinct programs...
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...Biosocial V.S. Biological Theory Gemini Ann Perez October 28, 2012 Professor Edwin Souza CRJ180 Juvenile Delinquency and Justice There are many reasons why juvenile delinquency occurs but no one really knows why they have come up with some reasons that might explain why it occurs and the word for them is theories. Theories are a detailed explanation of one specific subject and the two theories that crossed my mind are behavioral and biosocial. In Behavioral theory it describes the outcomes of the consequences of a certain behavior on occurrence of such behavior in the future. Conditioning is one of the learning methods according to which the likelihood of behavior is increased or decreased by the use of reinforcement or punishment. In case of positive reinforcement a certain behavior becomes stronger by the effect of experiencing some positive condition. In case of negative reinforcement a certain behavior becomes stronger by the outcome of stopping or staying away from some negative condition. In case of extinction a certain behavior is becomes weaker by the outcome of avoiding to experiencing some positive condition or stopping some negative condition. Negative and positive reinforcements and extinction strengthen certain kinds of behavior of individuals. Punishment is a big form of conditioning used all over the world. When people are punished, it is to decrease that certain behavior produced by...
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...Week 2: Critical Thinking WillClark Webster University Behavioral Issues SECR 5090 Dr. Darl Champion November 4, 2013 Week 2: Critical Thinking Exercise Our juvenile justice system and our understanding are not effective in curbing the juvenile delinquency in this society. There are some in this society, which believes this statement not to be true, but just one person’s opinion. However, Terrie Moffitt developmental theory poises some unique insight into juvenile delinquency and how our society should address it. According to, Moffitt theories there are two types of juvenile delinquents in our society. The two type are adolescence-limited and life-course persistent juvenile offenders. This paper will examine Moffitt developmental theory and how this theory can aid our society in preventing juvenile delinquency. The majority of statistics show that across the board over 90 % of juvenile offenders are adolescence-limited. Adolescence-limited offenders are typically the average juveniles could control their antisocial urges that he or she can have stray away from a life of crime. Just like the name implies, adolescence-limited juveniles only engage in delinquent activity for shorts period usually in their teens. In Moffitt theory during these adolescent years the majority of our youth have trouble with life changing issues and responsibilities. Moffitt theory suggests that most juvenile’s primary motivation and cause for delinquent behavior during these adolescence...
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...Juvenile Alternative Programs Analysis For almost two decades, the Juvenile Justice system has expanded to help turn the experience of a disadvantage youthful offender into a solution that supports his or her transition into adult independence. This comparative analysis shows the different aspects of two juvenile diversions, intervention, or prevention programs working with the state of Arkansas. This study shows the relationship of the mission promise for each of juvenile prevention programs. The goals of the programs define the causes of juvenile delinquency providing innovative solutions to the current problems for the youthful offenders. Arkansas Department of Family and Protective Services A wide array of departments shows the advantages of professionals working with the community to gain the confidence and reliability of the people living within the five county-area of North Central Arkansas. The young teen programs provide information and protective services for different ranges of abuse, neglect, and truancy as these problems can lead to juvenile delinquency. The wide umbrella of the family protective interventions (AFPS) covers two different programs working to decrease the many causes leading to juvenile delinquency. The main goal of reducing juvenile delinquency shows within the Arkansas Sheriffs Ranches and Arkansas Youth Network Boot Camps for youthful offenders (McDaniel, 2012).. Youth Network Boot Camp Goals The purpose and goal of the YBC program show...
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...Applying Theory to Practice Over the past decade, youth, and individuals under the age of 18 antisocial Mary Jo Buttafuoco had no idea that on answer and violence behavior has become a grave global concern and a top political policy issue being sensationalized by media coverage of rare but devastatingly murder crimes being committed by young individuals at school, homes and other social places. The increase of media reports of notorious murder by young people may skew the public perception of its actual prevalence. In our case study, we look at Mary Jo Buttafuoco who is murdered by a teenage girl at her home on Adam Road West Long Island, N.Y., on May 19, 1992. Moral Development Theory explanations of delinquency in which propositions identify certain concepts and describe and how they are related to delinquent behavior, this theoretically predicts relationships that may be tested through research. For instance, one simple proposition of differential association theory is that attitudes favoring delinquency may be learned in the context of inmate personal groups, in our case, the girl suggests to Mary Jo that they should have a talk about her husband, where she notices a car with a young man of which the girl claims to be her boyfriend. Mary Jo becomes upset and orders the girl to leave. The girl shoots her in the head without a second thought (Regoli, Hewitt, & DeLisi, 2014). The predicted relationship portrayed here is that youths develop attitudes, in this case we find...
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...Juvenile Delinquency Juvenile Delinquency by definition is an underage child that commits a criminal crime or has an antisocial behavior. A big mistake by a lot of people within the United States is considering any child that misbehaves is a juvenile delinquent. There are many factors that contribute to a child heading down a wrong path and becoming a delinquent. A lot of these problems are found within a child’s life. Some factors include family structure, influence of media, and the influence of peers. When looking at juvenile delinquency, you must take into consideration what is going on at home. The majority of young people who become delinquents live in an environment with difficult circumstances. According to an article called Juvenile Delinquency (2003), children who are subjected to watching their parents deal with alcoholism, poverty, family breakdowns, or abusive conditions are usually the quickest to fall into the delinquent categories. Usually when this occurs children find unhealthy ways to cope with their anger or feelings thus leading towards doing drugs or committing crimes. Parents should focus on making sure children have a healthy environment to grow up in to keep family structure from being a key element towards a child starting a criminal career. The media is another factor when looking into the life of a juvenile delinquent. Video games and television shows are filled with crime and violence. Majority of children are introduced to these at a young age...
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...Discussion about The Juveniles Law: Abolish vs Maintain As Juveniles crimes are increasing, there is criticism that the punishment for juvenile offenders is too soft. In recent years of Korea, juvenile crimes has proved that juvenile offenders became crueler than ever. The case of Busan juvenile violent crime was committed by five middle school students. The victim was their friend. They beat her six hours and threaten her with scissors. However, this is not only big problem in the South Korea, but also in the United States. According to the research of Police Department, between 1980 and 2005, 43,621 juveniles were arrested for murder in the United States. The picture is just as bleak with respect to arrests for 109,563 rapes, 818,276 robberies, and aggravated 1,240,199 assaults. People who support the abolishing of the Juveniles Law claim that this law protects the criminals more than the victims. On the other side, people who defending the Juveniles Law argue that the juvenile criminals also needs legal protection, because they have been growing up in unsafe environment. No one wants to be a criminal, but they are growing up as criminals because of their bad neighbors. Even though they want to escape from that situation, they can’t because they are too young. Two hundred years ago, there were juvenile issues in European society. It was the exploitation and abuse of the underprivileged youths caused by industrial revolution. Young people committed crime, because they had...
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...Juvenile Delinquency Youth Violence in schools and outside of schools is an issue that is damaging the whole world. It is not something that is happening recently it is happening for a long period of time, and we as the parents are the one that have to find the way on how to help our teenagers, as well as the family members, friends, and the teachers too and one of the ways is by knowing the causes of why so many youth end up in juvenile delinquency. Based on an Article back on 1999, students between the ages of 12 and 18 approximately 186,000 where victims of violence crime in school and 476,000 while away from school (National Center for Educational Statistics 2001). That is a situation that should have not be acceptable, one of the biggest causes of Juvenile Delinquency is the lack of attention that parents give to their children. There are parents who give poor directions to children, fail to structure their behavior and do not reward or punish appropriately. “…our prediction was that the highest levels of antisocial behavior would occur where poor attachment between parent and child was combined with poor controls.” (Hoge, Andrews, and Leschied, 1994, p. 547). Two other causes are a child being abuse physically and mentally at an early age, and low self-esteem. There are many much factors and causes that if we all take in consideration and with the help of the government we can help our youth to children of good and grow with being...
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