TY - JOUR
T1 - The Impact of Teen Court on Rural Adolescents
T2 - Improved Social Relationships, Psychological Functioning, and School Experiences
AU - Smokowski, Paul R.
AU - Rose, Roderick A.
AU - Evans, Caroline B.R.
AU - Barbee, James
AU - Stalker, Katie
AU - Bower, Meredith
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this research was provided through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (5 U01 CE001948-03) and from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ-2014-3878).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - Teen Court is a prevention program aimed at diverting first time juvenile offenders from the traditional juvenile justice system and reintegrating them into the community. Few studies have examined if Teen Court impacts adolescent functioning. We examined how Teen Court participation impacted psychosocial functioning, social relationships, and school experiences in a sample of 392 rural Teen Court participants relative to two comparison samples, one from the same county as Teen Court (n = 4276) and one from a neighboring county (n = 3584). We found that Teen Court has the potential to decrease internalizing symptoms, externalizing behavior, violent behavior, parent-adolescent conflict, and delinquent friends, and increase self-esteem and school satisfaction.
AB - Teen Court is a prevention program aimed at diverting first time juvenile offenders from the traditional juvenile justice system and reintegrating them into the community. Few studies have examined if Teen Court impacts adolescent functioning. We examined how Teen Court participation impacted psychosocial functioning, social relationships, and school experiences in a sample of 392 rural Teen Court participants relative to two comparison samples, one from the same county as Teen Court (n = 4276) and one from a neighboring county (n = 3584). We found that Teen Court has the potential to decrease internalizing symptoms, externalizing behavior, violent behavior, parent-adolescent conflict, and delinquent friends, and increase self-esteem and school satisfaction.
KW - Delinquency
KW - Diversion program
KW - Youth violence
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U2 - 10.1007/s10935-017-0470-y
DO - 10.1007/s10935-017-0470-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 28409260
AN - SCOPUS:85017437009
SN - 0278-095X
VL - 38
SP - 447
EP - 464
JO - Journal of Primary Prevention
JF - Journal of Primary Prevention
IS - 4
ER -