... risk of crime. These practices include parents" failure to establish clear expectations for children's behavior, failure to supervise and monitor children, and excessively severe, harsh, or inconsistent punishment or child abuse and neglect. Parents training can reduce poor family management and a child's early aggressive behaviors and conduct problems. Programs designed to enhance parent-child interactions promote attachment and bonding to the ... who are at social risk, utilizing specialized programs and educational materials. Attention is also to be given to policies and strategies f...

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... . Some of the categories within the model in their research were gender, age, exposure to delinquent peers, degree of family involvement, school problems, and substance abuse, past offending, race, and gang involvement, size of household, child abuse, and social isolation (Jones 485). The results of using these categories did not provide distinct descriptions of what would predict the chronic juvenile delinquent but ... ...

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... , or other object that bears a reasonable resemblance to, or can be perceived to be, an actual firearm" (Decker, 2005). The above reports are just a few examples of the widespread abuse of zero tolerance policies. It is clear that in many cases, zero tolerance is not enhancing the education of American students; it is rather pushing them out of school, denying ... ...

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