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New TEEN COURT Randomized Control Trial (RCT) Released w/Excellent Positive Findings.

Research Teen Court
posted on July 26, 2020
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Conclusion
Rigorous longitudinal growth models showed that high school students in schools with an SBTC reported higher school satisfaction and fewer delinquent friendships compared to schools without an SBTC. Basic pretest-post test analyses also showed significant decreases in student-reported violent 450 behavior in SBTC schools while there was no significant change in this outcome in comparison group schools. School hassles, bullying victimization, and use of suspensions for discipline all decreased in schools with an SBTC; however, these outcomes also decreased in comparison schools.

Finally, SBTC participants reported decreasing friend support and increasing peer pressure and peer rejection. These are potential mediation mechanisms indicating stress within the process of going through SBTCs as an 455 offender and should be further examined in future studies.

Teen Court assists offenders in establishing positive connections with the school community by giving them a voice, which might help them acknowledge their transgressions and improve their behavior. SBTCs focus on repairing the harm done to the victim or community and emphasize having an open dialog rather than on procedure and evidence.

Based on Braithwaite’s Re- 460 Integrative Shaming Theory and Sherman’s Defiance Theory, SBTC programs seek to provide an atmosphere in which youths can be re-integrated into the community, instead of being stigmatized for their transgressions.

SBTCs have the potential to interrupt the School to Prison Pipeline by providing an alternative to marginalizing discipline, such as suspensions from school. Our data shows that SBTCs exert some positive effects on 465
school climate (i.e., student satisfaction) and student problems (i.e., delinquent friendships, violent behavior) while diverting offenders to community/school service as an alternative to traditional discipline. Based on encouraging results from this initial randomized trial, we recommend replication studies with a larger number of schools and the integration of Teen Courts with other practices to form a comprehensive package of programs to impact school climate. Read @ https://2pgact17vsn520hzyb3nfxr6-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2020/07/Teen-Court-Research.pdf

For more Information on Youth-Led and Volunteer-Driven Youth Court, Teen Court, Peer Court, Student Court and Peer Jury Diversion Programs in the United States of America and around the Globe — visit the Global Youth Justice Worldwide Website @ https://www.globalyouthjustice.org/

Scott Peterson
Scott Peterson serves as the CEO for Global Youth Justice, Inc. and is an international social entrepreneur championing scaleable volunteer-driven models to strengthen Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice and Youth Justice systems. For more than a decade, Scott Peterson worked in the Executive Branch of the United States Government at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a Senior Adviser to the United Nations and UNICEF on behalf of the U.S. Department of State. For the past 25-years, Scott Peterson is most well known as the lead champion of youth/teen/student/peer court and peer jury diversion programs on a local, state, federal, and global level.

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Global Youth Justice, Inc. champions the expansion of youth justice and juvenile justice diversion programs called Youth/Teen/Peer/Student Court and Peer Jury.  Historic numbers of Justice Volunteers, including youth and adults -- make it possible for 1,800+ communities on 5 continents to give their youth a 2nd, and even 3rd chance for committing minor crimes, offenses and violations.  The Global Youth Justice Movement is a text-book example of a local grass-roots volunteer-driven "scaleable model" to strengthen juvenile justice, youth justice and criminal justice systems around the globe.

 

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