All posts tagged "Violence"

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  New Smartphone App Aims to Prevent Date Rape

  A recently released iPhone app may help teenagers and college students take a stand against sexual violence, according to Nancy Schwatzman founder and...

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  Justice Department Expands Youth Violence Prevention Program

  WASHINGTON – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced this week that the Justice Department will expand to 10 – from six –...

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  Analysis of State Bullying Laws and Policies

  U.S. Department of Education The department examined the extent to which states legislatively required schools to address bullying and what model policies...

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  Youth Risk Behavior Survey

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This 2009 survey by the CDC looks at health-risk behaviors among young people in 9th through...

• Helping Human Services Agencies Reach Teens During Domestic Violence Awareness Month

  Almost 10 percent of high school students have experienced physical dating violence in the past year. Approximately 1 in 5 young women...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Notes from Juvenile Woodstock

  All this week, JJ Today is roaming the hallways and meeting rooms of the National Juvenile Justice Conference hosted by the Office...

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  What Prompts Youths to Carry Guns?

  Specifying the Role of Exposure to Violence and Violent Behavior on Initiation of Gun Carrying: A Longitudinal Test of Three Models of...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Senate Approps Cuts Federal Juvenile Programs Deeply, But Funds All of Them

  The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill this afternoon that would fund the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs...

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  The Impact of Bullying Climate on Schoolwide Academic Performance

  Virginia Youth Violence Project The pervasiveness of bullying has an effect on the academic performance of students, according to findings from the...

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  ‘Beyond Scared Straight’ Renewed for Second Season

  “Beyond Scared Straight,” a popular and controversial cable television reality show that was criticized by Department of Justice officials for depicting a...

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  Youth Cybercrime Influenced by Peers

  Having friends who engage in cybercrimes is one of the greatest determinants in whether juveniles commit cybercrimes, according to a new study...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Education Department to Study School Bullying Policies

  The Department of Education’s Policy and Program Studies Service (PPSS) is conducting case studies in 24 school sites studying the effectiveness and...

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  Details of 2009 Child Maltreatment Data Released

  New information released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides more details about the number of allegations of maltreatment...

• Judges Must Know Where Juveniles Are Going

  Irene Sullivan, a former Florida juvenile judge and author of “Raised by the Courts,” shares her thoughts on the closure of the...

• Weekly Notes: New structure for OJJDP advisory committee; a dark juvenile justice chapter ends in Florida; and more

  Hope everyone has a lovely Memorial Day weekend. JJ Today got a press release yesterday informing us that Saturday is also National...

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  Six of 10 Texas High School Seniors Have Been Suspended, Expelled or Arrested

  More Texas students have been suspended or expelled than have not, according to a forthcoming study of state trends on school discipline....

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Anti-Bullying Programs Pushed Aside by Federal Budget Woes

  Note: This story originally appeared on the website of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange On March 10, President Obama turned up the...

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  Report: In D.C., Summer is Never the Peak of Juvenile Arrests

  A report released today by the group D.C. Lawyers for Youth challenges the widely held belief  that notable spikes in juvenile offenses...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Forum Addresses Youth Violence

  Representatives of six cities met in Washington earlier this month, at the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention, to discuss their common...

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  Evidence-Based Practices for Children Exposed to Violence: A Selection from Federal Databases

  U.S. Department of Justice/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services This report summarizes findings and evidence from federal reviews of research studies...