"Working With Adolescents - Tough Answers to Tough Questsions - Show II" was first aired on Sunday February 16th 2003. Our Guests were Lesia Foerster-Doan, L.B.P., UCO Graduate and Dr. Robert Doan, Ph.D., UCO Professor.
Our topics included:- Last week we talked about troubled and disruptive kids in our schools
- This week we will look at what we have to do about it
- What kind of corrective/punishment action needs to be taken
- If kids are in trouble because of behavior, how the Juvenile Criminal Justice system deals with this
- Focus of criminal justice system is on: 1) Punishment; 2) Rehabilitation; 3) Safety of others
- What primary focus should be with kids
- How these issues are best addressed: 1) At an individual level; 2) Family level; 3) Cultural level
- Oklahoma is in a financial crisis and is 49th in financial support of teachers and education
- What this tells us - Will more money make any difference
- Where funding is needed most to help "at risk" kids
- Rehabilitation/recidivism - Are we doing enough to rehabilitate once the child is in custody
- What we are doing and why
- Does this lead to adult criminal activity
- Certifying kids as adults to stand trial for criminal conduct
- Executing the teenager
Lesia Foerster-Doan, Kent Meyers, Mick Cornett, Robert Doan
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