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Executive Summary: The Juvenile Justice System

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The Juvenile Justice System
Crystal Swanson
Columbia Southern University

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There is a program called Aggression Replacement Training (ART) which concentrates on development of individual competencies to address various emotional and social aspects that contribute to aggressive behavior in youths. Program techniques are designed to teach youths how to control their angry impulses and take perspectives other than their own. The main goal is to reduce aggression and violence among youths by providing them with opportunities to learn prosocial skills in place of aggressive behavior. The program is targeted at youths with a history of serious aggression and antisocial behavior and can be applied across several …show more content…

The program consists of three interrelated components, all of which come together to promote a comprehensive aggression-reduction curriculum: Structured Learning Training, Anger Control Training, and Moral Reasoning. Each component focuses on a specific prosocial behavioral technique: action, affective/emotional, or thought/values. During program implementation, youths attend a 1-hour session each week for each of the three components. Structured Learning Training (action component). Which is intended to teach social skills through social interaction and is disseminated using direct instruction, role-play, practice, and performance feedback. Anger Control Training (affective/emotional component). This component is intended to help youths recognize their external and internal triggers for aggression, aggression signals, and how to control anger using various techniques. Moral Reasoning (thought and values component). This component is intended to address the reasoning aspect of aggressive behavior and is specifically designed to enhance values of morality in aggressive youths. (Glick & Gibbs, …show more content…

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