Reform and Revolution: Juvenile Detention Center Libraries in the 1970s

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Juvenile Detention Center

Facial Emotion Recognition and Empathy in Employees at a Juvenile Detention Center

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (8) ◽  
pp. 2430-2446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luz Anyela Morales Quintero ◽  
Jairo Muñoz-Delgado ◽  
José Carlos Sánchez-Ferrer ◽  
Ana Fresán ◽  
Martin Brüne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Independent Effect ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Juvenile Detention Center ◽  
Violent Offenses

Numerous studies have shown that emotion recognition is impaired in individuals with a history of violent offenses, especially in those diagnosed with psychopathy. However, in criminological contexts, there is insufficient research regarding the role of empathy and facial emotion recognition abilities of personnel employed in correction centers. Accordingly, we sought to explore facial emotion recognition abilities and empathy in administrative officers and security guards at a center for institutionalized juvenile offenders. One hundred twenty-two Mexican subjects, including both men and women, were recruited for the study. Sixty-three subjects were administrative officers, and 59 subjects were security guards at a juvenile detention center. Tasks included “Pictures of Facial Affect” and the “Cambridge Behavior Scale.” The results showed that group and gender had an independent effect on emotion recognition abilities, with no significant interaction between the two variables. Specifically, administrative officers showed higher empathy than security guards. Moreover, women in general exhibited more empathy than men. This study provides initial evidence of the need to study emotion recognition and empathy among professionals working in forensic settings or criminological contexts.

Learning through dissonance: Critical service-learning in a juvenile detention center as field experience in music teacher education

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeananne Nichols ◽  
Brian M. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Incarcerated Youth ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Juvenile Detention Center ◽  
School Music ◽  
Service Music ◽  
Past Experiences

Though many pre-service music teachers have received exemplary instruction in their high school music programs, these programs may not be representative of the social, cultural, and economic diversity of their broader communities. This insularity may hinder their perceptions of their community as they step into an increasingly diverse school environment. The Champaign County Juvenile Detention Center (CCJDC) Arts Project was adopted as a critical service-learning course in order to introduce pre-service music teachers to students and ways of teaching that may be different from what they typically encounter through their university field experiences. Participants in the project designed and facilitated music and arts experiences with the incarcerated youth once per week over an entire semester. In this case study we examine the experiences of six pre-service music teachers who participated in the CCJDC Arts Project during 2012, looking for moments of “dissonance,” which Kiely defines as incongruities between participants’ past experiences and the challenging reality they encounter through the project. Entry into the facility, interactions with the youth at the facility, and the musical practices shaped by the needs of the facility all worked in tandem to challenge participants’ latent expectations and beliefs about their community, and to heighten their awareness of the sociocultural systems that shape their future students, their developing teaching practices, and their own privileged positions in school and society.

Further Examination of the Association Between Heavy Marijuana Use and Crime Among Youths Entering a Juvenile Detention Center

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Dembo ◽  
Mark Washburn ◽  
Eric D. Wish ◽  
James Schmeidler ◽  
Alan Getreu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Juvenile Detention Center

Implementation of a Behavioral Intervention in a Juvenile Detention Center: Do Individual Characteristics Matter?

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey A. Pederson ◽  
Paula J. Fite ◽  
Pam D. Weigand ◽  
Holly Myers ◽  
Leigh Housman
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intervention ◽  
Positive Feedback ◽  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Juvenile Detention Center

A sample of 129 (73% male) youth admitted consecutively into a juvenile detention center were used to examine individual characteristics that contribute the implementation of a behavioral intervention within a juvenile detention center. Given that a system of rewards and punishments is considered the mechanism of change within many behavioral interventions, individuals risk characteristics (i.e., proactive and reactive aggression, behavioral inhibition, subsystems of behavioral activation, callous–unemotional traits, perceived containment) were examined in relation to the rewards (i.e., positive feedback) and punishments (i.e., fines) used by the facility. Data were collected via structured interviews with youth and archival data. The number of days youth spent in detention was the only predictor of positive feedback received. Number of days in detention, sex, and race were related to fines. Behavioral activation drive was the only individual characteristic related to fines. Implications of findings are discussed.

Caught Up

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Flores
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Young People ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Community School ◽  
Wraparound Services ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Juvenile Detention Center ◽  
California Schools ◽  
Latina Girls

Caught Up follows the lives of 50 Latina girls in “El Valle” Juvenile Detention Center and “Legacy” community school located 40 miles outside of Los Angeles, CA. Their path through these two institutions reveals the accelerated fusion of California schools and institutions of confinement. For example, the connection between both of these sites is a concerted effort between Legacy Community School and El Valle administrators to provide young people with wraparound services. These well-intentioned services are designed to provide youth with support at home, at school and in the actual detention center. However, I argue that wraparound services more closely resemble a phenomenon that I call wraparound incarceration, where students cannot escape the surveillance of formal detention despite leaving the actual detention center. For young people in Legacy school, returning to El Valle became an unavoidable consequence of wraparound services.

Life behind Bars

Caught Up ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Flores
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Violent Behavior ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Community School ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Juvenile Detention Center ◽  
Problematic Behaviors

In this and other American detention centers, violence is ubiquitous, a central part of life behind bars. Most research in this area focuses on the violence that takes place among fellow inmates (Davis, 2003). My time observing the girls at El Valle suggests the behavior of the correctional staff contributes to violence and fighting in secure detention. In the following chapter, I demonstrate how this institution and its staff promote problematic behaviors (like fighting) and create an atmosphere where these behaviors are necessary. Encouraging these actions might help keep girls safe in detention, but it ultimately further entrenches these young women in the El Valle–Legacy Community School cycle and the larger criminal justice system, contrary to the stated goals of wraparound services. Most of the young people in this study were initially arrested for nonviolent, drug-related offenses, but they earned more time in secure confinement because of fighting. In other words, girls began participating in violent behavior after entering El Valle juvenile detention center.

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