The Problem of Mass Incarceration

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.02.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. The Unit
  2. Violent Crime in the United States
  3. Trauma
  4. Risk and Protective Factors
  5. Protective Factors
  6. Schools and Their Place in Empowering and Protecting Students
  7. School, Community, Business, and Neighborhood Partnerships
  8. Specific Prevention Strategies
  9. Teaching Strategies
  10. Standards
  11. Notes

Equipping Students with Tools for Positive Change

Trace Lynne Ragland

Published September 2019

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Notes

  1. Initiative, Prison Policy. "States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2018." Prison Policy Initiative. Accessed July 11, 2019. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2018.html. Data on rates of imprisonment, world wide.
  2. "Criminal Victimization, 2017." Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Accessed July 14, 2019. https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6466. Data on victimization by survey.
  3. Zelechoski, Amanda D. "Trauma, Adverse Experience, and Offending." APA Handbook of Psychology and Juvenile Justice., 2016, 325-42. doi:10.1037/14643-015. Comprehensive information on Juvenile Justice and its psychological effects.
  4. Brunzell, Tom, Lea Waters, and Helen Stokes. "Teaching with Strengths in Trauma-affected Students: A New Approach to Healing and Growth in the Classroom." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 85, no. 1 (2015): 3-9. doi:10.1037/ort0000048. Best practices for school wide and classroom support for traumatized students.
  5. Gold, Steven N. "About Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy." Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy1, no. 1 (2009): 1-2. doi:10.1037/a0015163. Comprehensive information regarding the psychology of trauma.
  6. Cook A, Blaustein M, Spinazzola J, et al, editors. Complex trauma in children and adolescents.  National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2003.  Available at: http://nctsnet.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/edu_materials/ComplexTrauma_All.pdf. Accessed July 11, 2019. Explores complex trauma in juveniles.
  7. Gabowitz D, Zucker M, Cook A. Neuropsychological assessment in clinical evaluation of children and adolescents with complex trauma. J Child Adolescent Trauma 2008; 1: 163-78. In depth psychological review of trauma in juveniles.
  8. Patel, Deepali, and Rachel M. Taylor. Social and Economic Costs of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2012. Covers information presented in Social and Economic Costs of Violence Workshop.
  9. David-Ferdon, C., Vivolo-Kantor, A. M., Dahlberg, L. L., Marshall, K. J., Rainford, N. & Hall, J. E. (2016). A Comprehensive Technical Package for the Prevention of Youth Violence and Associated Risk Behaviors. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provides strategies that have been proven to prevent youth violence.
  10. Kearney, Melissa S., Benjamin H. Harris, Melissa S. Kearney, and Benjamin H. Harris. "Ten Economic Facts about Crime and Incarceration in the United States." Brookings. August 30, 2016. Accessed July 14, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/research/ten-economic-facts-about-crime-and-incarceration-in-the-united-states/ Statistics on Economic Effects of Crime and Incarceration in the US.
  11. Dahlberg, Linda L. "Youth Violence in the United States." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 14, no. 4 (1998): 259-72. doi:10.1016/s0749-3797(98)00009-9.  Data and violence prevention strategies for U.S. youth.
  12. Antunes, Maria João Lobo, and Eileen M. Ahlin. "Youth Exposure to Violence in the Community: Towards a Theoretical Framework for Explaining Risk and Protective Factors." Aggression and Violent Behavior34 (2017): 166-77. doi: 10.1016/j.avb.2017.01.015.  Reviews risk and protective factors pertaining to youth violence.
  13. "Preventing Youth Violence: An Evaluation of Youth Guidance's "Becoming a Man" Program." Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. July 14, 2019. Accessed July 14, 2019. http://www.icjia.state.il.us/articles/preventing-youth-violence. Evaluates named program.
  14. "Supplemental Material for Direct Instruction of Metacognition Benefits Adolescent Science Learning, Transfer, and Motivation: An In Vivo Study." Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015. doi: 10.1037/edu0000022.supp. Reviews metacognition benefits for adolescent education.
  15. Lohr, Jim. "Can Visualizing Your Body Doing Something, Such as Moving Your Arm, Help You Complete the Action? What Part of the Brain Is Involved?" Scientific American Mind 26, no. 3 (2015): 72. doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0515-72a. Review recent studies in brain activity with regard to visualization and its effects.
  16. "Self-Regulation and Sensory-Affective Co-Regulation." The SAGE Encyclopedia of Classroom Management. doi:10.4135/9781483346243.n305. Provides data and explanation about self-regulation.
  17. Hoedel, Joseph M. "Empirically Informed Character and Leadership Education in Focused High School Classrooms." Journal of Character Education14, no. 1 (2018): 7-27.  Evaluates character education effects for a variety of programs.
  18. Saltzman, Amy. Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens. Guilford Publications, 2017. Strategies for teaching mindfulness.
  19. Pavelka, Sandra, and Anne Seymour. "Guiding Principles and Restorative Practices for Crime Victims and Survivors." Corrections TodayJanuary (2019).  Reviews Restorative Justice practice techniques.

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