Writers Den

Here’s What Happened . .
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Recently juvenile
delinquency has become a hot topic in the city of Centervale. Compared to last
year, official data indicates an increase in status offenses, especially
truancy and curfew. Additionally, the Centervale police department reports a
consistent three-year increase in minor arrests for larceny, vandalism,
assault, and unlawful entry. It appears that incidents involving female
juveniles are rapidly increasing while there is a steady increase in male
juvenile related incidents.

Anecdotally, the general
sentiment of Centervale citizens is that children are out of control. The local
newspaper regularly receives letters to the editor complaining about juveniles
loitering, spraying graffiti, and causing general mischief. Although the city
has run a juvenile court, a diversion program, community corrections, and
probation for some time, it has never undertaken a program that specifically
targets juvenile delinquency prevention.

Feeling pressure from
local civic organizations and sensing the frustration of the population in
general, the mayor has asked you to devise a realistic and economic program to
address Centervale’s juvenile delinquency problem.

Here’s What You Need to
Do . . .

Create a Community
Initiative Program that will attempt to reduce and prevent juvenile delinquency
in Centervale. Using APA in-text citations to cite external sources that link
to corresponding references on a separate page, compose your 5–7 page proposal
based on the following questions:

·
The Mayor has indicated that reducing and preventing truancy,
larceny or theft, and underage drinking are the city’s top priorities.

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Choose one of these target issues as your program’s focus.

·
Select a target population—individual, family, community, or
society—and discuss your analysis for determining why this issue is a problem,
then create an outline with a minimum of three specific goals for your program.

·
Building upon a foundation of current trends in juvenile justice
and research on juvenile delinquency, discuss how the goals of your program are
consistent with current trends and your research findings. Compare similar
successful programs and suggest ways to improve on an area of limitation.

·
Summarize a theory of juvenile delinquency and discuss how it
specifically addresses your selected target issue. Critically evaluate the
theory and provide examples of how the theory demonstrates the concepts
proposed in your program.

·
Describe the implementation of the program and any anticipated
limitations.

·
Briefly describe how the program will be evaluated. Use external
sources as your guide, explain how the program’s success will be measured, and
describe new actions that will demonstrate program success to the mayor and
citizens of Centervale.

Submission Details: By
Monday, November 18, 2013, submit your paper

Grading Criteria and
Rubric in this course will be graded using a rubric. This assignment is worth
200 points. Download the rubric and carefully read it to understand the
expectations.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Selected truancy, larceny or theft, or underage drinking as the program’s focus; selected a target population—individual, family, community, or society—and analyzed why this issue is a problem; and created three goals for the program.	24
Built a foundation of current trends in juvenile justice and juvenile delinquency research to discuss how the goals of the program are consistent, compared similar successful programs, and suggested ways to improve on an area of limitation.	32
Summarized a theory of juvenile delinquency, discussed how it specifically addresses the selected target issue, and critically evaluated the theory and demonstrated how its concepts apply to the program.	36
Described the implementation of the program and any anticipated limitations the program might have.	28
Described how the program might be evaluated and discussed how the program will measure and demonstrate successes.	36
Writing Standards · Organization (12) · Usage and Mechanics (12) · APA Elements (16) · Style (4)	44
Total:	200