My preventive program, will be the group therapy 's type, and will be actually based on the decriminalization of the youth in the lower class comunities of Omaha, for example the North Omaha district.
My preventive practice will try to work with the group, who are capable to drop the delinquency. Subsequently it won 't concern the chronic gangs offeners.
As, I already pointed out, my favorite criminological and behavioral theorist, is Mr A. Cohen.
In his theory, of delinquant subculture and his book “Delinquant boys “ (1955), he pointed out that youth engage in crime in seek of personnal social status, as a result of their own "American Dream" failure , he investigated the character of criminal behavior in lower-class urban areas. The …show more content…
Consequently I will develop my preventional program based on the theory of A. Cohen and his approach to non-professional, urban, youth delinquency.
In his theory Albert K. Cohen (1955) did not look at the economically oriented career criminal, but looked at the delinquency subculture, focusing on gang delinquency among low class youth in ghetto areas. His work developed a distinctive culture as a response to their perceived lack of economic and social opportunity within U.S. …show more content…
“Discrepancies between aspirations and legitimate avenues thus produce intense pressures for the use of illegitimate alternatives.” (Cullen, 1988)
That is why we need to reinforce the effectiveness of aimed practices in particular the prevention of youth violence in four key areas: parents and families; home and job visits; help to build sociability and skills in their social relations with the others; mentoring.
The goal of this preventional program will be to submit it for acceptance for the “Blueprint program”, proposed by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado Boulder. (http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/index.html) In 1996, the Centre for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) of the University of Colorado has designed and launched a national initiative to prevent violence in the United States, which aimed to identify effective programs in the field. As part of the project entitled Blueprints for Violence Prevention, identified prevention and intervention programs are those corresponding to rigorous scientific standards in terms of
My preventive practice will try to work with the group, who are capable to drop the delinquency. Subsequently it won 't concern the chronic gangs offeners.
As, I already pointed out, my favorite criminological and behavioral theorist, is Mr A. Cohen.
In his theory, of delinquant subculture and his book “Delinquant boys “ (1955), he pointed out that youth engage in crime in seek of personnal social status, as a result of their own "American Dream" failure , he investigated the character of criminal behavior in lower-class urban areas. The …show more content…
Consequently I will develop my preventional program based on the theory of A. Cohen and his approach to non-professional, urban, youth delinquency.
In his theory Albert K. Cohen (1955) did not look at the economically oriented career criminal, but looked at the delinquency subculture, focusing on gang delinquency among low class youth in ghetto areas. His work developed a distinctive culture as a response to their perceived lack of economic and social opportunity within U.S. …show more content…
“Discrepancies between aspirations and legitimate avenues thus produce intense pressures for the use of illegitimate alternatives.” (Cullen, 1988)
That is why we need to reinforce the effectiveness of aimed practices in particular the prevention of youth violence in four key areas: parents and families; home and job visits; help to build sociability and skills in their social relations with the others; mentoring.
The goal of this preventional program will be to submit it for acceptance for the “Blueprint program”, proposed by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado Boulder. (http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/index.html) In 1996, the Centre for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) of the University of Colorado has designed and launched a national initiative to prevent violence in the United States, which aimed to identify effective programs in the field. As part of the project entitled Blueprints for Violence Prevention, identified prevention and intervention programs are those corresponding to rigorous scientific standards in terms of