Family and other Juvenile Offender Challenges

Assignment Content

1. Resource: Brochure Builder

   Create a 6-panel parenting brochure of between 250 – 350 words. Discuss the following:

   • Risk factors associated with delinquency
   • Behaviors associated with delinquency
   • Parenting techniques to prevent delinquency
   • Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

CPSS415 Working With Juvenile Offenders

Week 5

Family and other Juvenile Offender Challenges

Readings:

• Farrington, D. P., & Welsh, B. C. (2008). Family factors. Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions, 55.
• Roettger, M. E., & Swisher, R. R. (2011). Associations of fathers’ history of incarceration with sons’ delinquency and arrest among black, white, and Hispanic males in the United States. Criminology , 49(4), 1109-1147.

Videos

Readings:

• Films Media Group (1996). Youth Struggling for Survival: Like Father, Like Son (34:03) From Title: Youth Struggling for Survival: Like Father, Like Son .