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Juvenile and Criminal Justice Volunteerism Teaching Module Booklets

NCJ Number
83346
Author(s)
V Fox; G L Howard; G Misner; M Penn; E L V Shelley; K J Leenhouts; V I Snyder
Date Published
1981
Length
0 pages
Annotation
Twelve booklets on volunteers in juvenile and criminal justice provide teaching outlines, exercises, and discussion on such topics as the history of volunteer use, volunteers' motivations, program management and administration, resource development, dynamics of individual and group counseling by volunteers, and use of volunteers with adult misdemeanants, felons, and juvenile diversion programs.
Abstract
The twelve booklets are: (1) History of Volunteers in Juvenile and Criminal Justice; (2) Value Base of Juvenile and Criminal Justice Volunteerism; (3) Volunteer Resource Development; (4) Management and Administration of Volunteer Programs in Juvenile and Criminal Justice; (5) Dynamics of Individual and Group Counseling by Volunteers; (6) Many Uses of Volunteers in Juvenile and Criminal Justice; (7) Volunteers in Juvenile Diversion, Probation, Detention Institutions and Alternatives; (8) Volunteers and Adult Misdemeanant Courts; (9) Volunteers with the Adult Felon; (10) Issues, Trends, and Directions for Juvenile and Criminal Justice Volunteerism in the 1980's; (11) Corrections Volunteer Information Portfolio; (12) National Education-Training Program. Most booklets include bibliographies and illustrative case histories. For individual booklets, see NCJ 83347-57 and 62914.