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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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Results for police-juveniles interactions
1 results foundAuthor: Strategies for Youth Title: If Not Now, When? A Survey of Juvenile Justice Training in America’s Police Academies Summary: Over the past decade, police have become a ubiquitous presence in the lives of many youths, particularly those living in disadvantaged communities. They are now routinely deployed in public schools. As social and mental health services have been scaled back, police are frequently the first responders in domestic disputes involving juveniles. Yet, police confronting youths in a variety of deeply challenging situations and settings receive surprisingly little training about adolescent psychology and behavior. Strategies for Youth (SFY), an organization founded in 2010 with the express aim of improving interactions between youths and police, conducted a national, comprehensive survey on the state of training about juveniles available in police academies. The results indicate that the curriculum for juvenile justice in police academies is limited both in scope of subject matter and in the time spent reviewing it. SFY’s findings confirm that most police officers who interact frequently with juveniles are not benefiting from the wealth of new scientific research available about adolescent brain development. Nor are police provided information on promising and best practices for interacting with teens that stem from our growing understanding of how teenagers’ brains differ from those of adults. Details: Cambridge, MA: Strategies for Youth, 2013. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: accessed February 7, 2013 at: http://strategiesforyouth.org/sfysite/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/SFYReport_02-2013.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://strategiesforyouth.org/sfysite/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/SFYReport_02-2013.pdf Shelf Number: 127539 Keywords: Police-Citizens InteractionsPolice-Juveniles InteractionsPolicing Training (U.S.) |