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1 results foundAuthor: Flowers, Angelyn S. Title: Time Dollar Youth Court: 2010 Evaluation Final Report Summary: The Time Dollar Youth Court (TDYC) is a juvenile diversion program in the District of Columbia designed for first-time non-violent offenders. The central component of its intervention strategy is its peer jury process. TDYC envisions itself, not simply as a peer jury program, but as a peer jury where the jurors are offenders performing jury service as part of their sanction. This evaluation examined the effectiveness of service as peer jurors. Data on 882 TDYC participants who were in the program between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010 was analyzed. A mixture of methods was utilized in this evaluation design including qualitative, quantitative, and linguistic and sentiment analysis. A multi-stage process with a convenience sample was used. This included self-administered surveys and interviews. Relationships between participation in TDYC jury duty service with self-efficacy and civic engagement were examined using life-skills, community involvement, future aspirations, and participant perception of jury duty service. The strongest relationships were found in the life-skills category. Very strong direct relationships were found between the TDYC peer juror experience and the following variables: - Goal Setting and goal achievement (Pearson r = .98) - Problem solving (Pearson r = .95) - Decision making (Pearson r =.95) - Academics and learning (Pearson r = .88) Strong direct relationships were found between the TDYC peer juror experience and four variables, three of which were in the community involvement category: - Been mentored (Pearson r = .81) - Gained new friends from community involvement (Pearson r = .79) - Mentored someone (Pearson r = .76) - Communications skills (Pearson r = .71) The lowest life-skills category variables were: self-esteem which was moderately strong (Pearson r = .56) and social competencies which was only weakly related (Pearson r = .25). The lowest variables in the community involvement category were: having a leadership role in a community organization which was weak (Pearson r = .34) and belief that their community was important, which had a negative inverse relationship (Pearson r = -.04). In the life skills area the categories of goal setting and achievement, problem-solving, and decision-making were statistically significant at p = < .05 with a greater than 95% probability that the differences found between those participants at the beginning of their TDYC peer jury duty service and those who had completed their jury duty service were not due to chance and could therefore be inferred to apply to the entire 2009 - 2010 TDYC participant cohort. The categories of academics and learning, communications, and social competency were statistically significant at p = < .01 with a greater than 99% probability that any differences found could be inferred to apply to the larger population. The self-esteem category was not found to be statistically significant. With the exception of belief in the importance of their community and having a leadership role in a community organization, all of the other variables in community involvement were statistically significant at p = < .05. The excepted variables were not found to be statistically significant. The correlation with goal setting and goal achievement and TDYC peer jury experience was also demonstrated by the reduction in the disparity between aspirations and identification of a strategy for achieving those aspirations for those participants who were farthest along in their peer juror service experience. A sentiment analysis of TDYC participant comments on their service as peer jurors revealed feelings that were primarily positive with some neutral feelings, but no negative feelings. Details: Washington, DC: Angelyn S. Flowers, 2010. 30p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 20, 2015 at: http://www.globalyouthjustice.org/uploads/Washington_DC_s_Time_Dollar_Youth_Court.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://www.globalyouthjustice.org/uploads/Washington_DC_s_Time_Dollar_Youth_Court.pdf Shelf Number: 135277 Keywords: Juvenile Courts (U.S.)Juvenile DiversionPeer JuriesPeer JurorsYouth Courts |