A review of the effectiveness of recreation prevention and intervention efforts with at-risk and juvenile delinquent populations /
A segment of youth in society are considered at risk, and the
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | A segment of youth in society are considered at risk, and the accomplishment of five purposes: develop a better and delinquency and the use of recreation as a medium of and intervention; and, the compilation and critique of an as an intervention mechanism; identify key variables that are construct; identify instrumentation used to measure key continuum describing youth from a position of risk to delinquency variables. The results of the study provide a development of a taxonomy of existing theories and concepts education fields. This goal was achieved through the effectiveness of recreation prevention and intervention efforts with at-risk and juvenile delinquent populations explaining the impact of recretain in delinquency prevention extent that many of them become delinquents with a resulting framework from which research in the area of youth-at-risk high social and economic cost to the individuals and society. impacted by recreation; conceptualize the recreation impact in the leisure, criminology, sociology, psychology, and instrumentation. inventory of instruments used to measure recreation- juvenile delinquency; the development of a taxonomy of number is increasing. At-risk youth are a problem to the possible domains based on the identified key variables; prevent delinquency or intervene once the problems occur. prevention and/or intervention can be investigated. prevention of juvenile delinquency and the use of recreation services that have been suggested or utilized to help either Specific outcomes of the study included: the development of a The use of recreation is often left out of the variety of through an examination of theoretical and empirical research Thus, the overall goal of this study was to investigate the understanding of the role recreation can play in the used to explain delinquency; conceptualization of a model variables; and, identify limitations/issues in evaluation |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Recreation and Resources Development". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 315 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |