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Juvenile Justice and Alternative Education: A Life Course Assessment of Best Practices
Author(s): Nicole Prior (Author)
- Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 204 pages
- ISBN-10: 1593325339
- ISBN-13: 9781593325336
Book Description
Prior explores the connection between the quality of alternative education and juvenile delinquency using a life course perspective. Specifically, she determines that the implementation of quality assurance (QA) in alternative education disciplinary schools increased the likelihood that exiting students would return to their home school but had no effect on the students’ attendance. Additionally, improving the quality of the alternative education school showed mixed results on likelihood of arrest. The results indicate that students at alternative education schools should be allowed to remain in these schools until graduation from high school.
