Kevin N Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 86270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin N Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin N |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT K N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Practical Realities of Implementing Progressive Social Work
What actually happens when an agency sets out to implement progressive social work by shifting power and decision making from agency personnel to people with particular needs? Both staff and participants are thrust into roles different from those they occupy in traditional settings. Interpersonal dynamics change. New ways of making decisions evolve. Tensions arise as new ways of doing things and relating replace usual practices. This article expl…
A Qualitative Assessment of a Parent-developed, Parent-run Program to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy
This paper describes an approach to parent education that includes a parent-developed curriculum and parent-facilitated parent training program. The approach was based upon a model of empowerment and self-determination derived from critical and post-modern theoretical perspectives and asserts that parents, working together collectively, can affect meaningful change in their lives. The results of a qualitative assessment support the notion that pe…
Theorising equality in education
L’article porte sur les conséquences de la Loi écossaise sur l’Éducation (2004), favorisant l’accompagnement éducatif des élèves en difficultés d’apprentissage, y compris en raison de leur milieu défavorisé. L’objectif est redistributif mais la loi n’est pas appliquée. Alors que les enfants ayant des besoins d’accompagnement supplémentaires ont plus de chances d’habiter dans des quartiers défavorisés, ils sont plus identifiés comme atteints de tr…
Parental experiences of dealing with disputes in Additional Support Needs in Scotland
Partnerships with parents, particularly in the field of education, have featured prominently in policy rhetoric for many years, but routes of redress have not had much attention until relatively recently. The development of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the UK reflects the situation in several jurisdictions (e.g. Norway, Germany, the Netherlands) where citizens can choose not to go to court to resolve administrative disputes. Under the Educat…
Additional support needs reforms and social justice in Scotland
New additional support‐needs legislation in Scotland sought to recognise the way in which poverty, as well as individual impairment, contribute to the creation of children's difficulties in learning. As well as identifying a wider range of needs, the legislation sought to provide parents, irrespective of social background, with more powerful means of challenging local authority decisions on resource allocation, with the aim of delivering a fairer…
"Giving Voice" to Youths in Out-of-Home Placements
This article describes the impact of participating in a unique approach to positive youth development on a group of youths in out-of-home placements. The program provided young people with the opportunity to inform service providers and other adults about their experiences within the youth services system. Analyses of qualitative data identified seven arenas in which participating youths appeared to be influenced—initiation and growth, safety, co…
Count us in’ – achieving inclusion in Scottish schools
Inclusive education is now established as part of a global agenda and as such national governments, and their agencies, strive to produce and implement policies to promote inclusion. Scotland is no exception and in 2002 Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HMIe) published a review of ‘good practice’ in the field of inclusion in Scottish schools. This paper is an analysis of the HMIe policy document in terms of research ‘of ’ policy, with anal…
Twenty-two years of federal investment in criminal justice research
Prison officers and their world
A comparison of perceptions of the work environment between minority and non-minority employees of the federal prison system
The Great American Crime Myth
Measurement of Cross‐national Variations in the Extensiveness and Consistency of Due Process
The Great American Crime Myth
This is a cogent, although admittedly not unbiased, analysis of misconceptions about crime and the criminal justice system. The main theme of the book is that the `myths' on which efforts to deal with this crime `anxiety' are based stem from two common beliefs--that there is an unprecedented crime wave, and that government should and can do something to recognize the source and purpose they serve, and also to know how and why Americans react to c…
The pains of imprisonment
Universal Applicability of Probation Risk‐Assessment Instruments
A probation risk‐assessment instrument developed by the State of Wisconsin is receiving wide use throughout the nation and has been recognized by the National Institute of Corrections as part of a “model system.” However, this has been done without extensive validation on populations other than Wisconsin probationers and parolees. The validity of the instrument for a population of City of New York probationers is assessed in this study. It was fo…
Crime and Criminal Justice in a Declining Economy
The desirability of goal conflict within the criminal justice system
A Systems Analysis of Crime Control Strategies
Comparisons were made between 92 male prisoners over the age of 50 and 539 younger male prisoners at Utah State Prison, and between groups of first and muhiply incarcerated ot Utah and younger inmates. The older prisoners committed more crimes against persons, fewer property crimes, were older at first arrest, and were less socially deviant, impulsive, and hostile. The first incarcerated older inmates were found to have more often engaged in crim…
A comparison of perceptions of the work environment between minority and non-minority employees of the federal prison system
Universal Applicability of Probation Risk‐Assessment Instruments
A probation risk‐assessment instrument developed by the State of Wisconsin is receiving wide use throughout the nation and has been recognized by the National Institute of Corrections as part of a “model system.” However, this has been done without extensive validation on populations other than Wisconsin probationers and parolees. The validity of the instrument for a population of City of New York probationers is assessed in this study. It was fo…
"Giving Voice" to Youths in Out-of-Home Placements
This article describes the impact of participating in a unique approach to positive youth development on a group of youths in out-of-home placements. The program provided young people with the opportunity to inform service providers and other adults about their experiences within the youth services system. Analyses of qualitative data identified seven arenas in which participating youths appeared to be influenced—initiation and growth, safety, co…
The desirability of goal conflict within the criminal justice system
Additional support needs reforms and social justice in Scotland
New additional support‐needs legislation in Scotland sought to recognise the way in which poverty, as well as individual impairment, contribute to the creation of children's difficulties in learning. As well as identifying a wider range of needs, the legislation sought to provide parents, irrespective of social background, with more powerful means of challenging local authority decisions on resource allocation, with the aim of delivering a fairer…
Measurement of Cross‐national Variations in the Extensiveness and Consistency of Due Process
Parental experiences of dealing with disputes in Additional Support Needs in Scotland
Partnerships with parents, particularly in the field of education, have featured prominently in policy rhetoric for many years, but routes of redress have not had much attention until relatively recently. The development of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the UK reflects the situation in several jurisdictions (e.g. Norway, Germany, the Netherlands) where citizens can choose not to go to court to resolve administrative disputes. Under the Educat…
A Systems Analysis of Crime Control Strategies
Comparisons were made between 92 male prisoners over the age of 50 and 539 younger male prisoners at Utah State Prison, and between groups of first and muhiply incarcerated ot Utah and younger inmates. The older prisoners committed more crimes against persons, fewer property crimes, were older at first arrest, and were less socially deviant, impulsive, and hostile. The first incarcerated older inmates were found to have more often engaged in crim…
The desirability of goal conflict within the criminal justice system
A Systems Analysis of Crime Control Strategies
Comparisons were made between 92 male prisoners over the age of 50 and 539 younger male prisoners at Utah State Prison, and between groups of first and muhiply incarcerated ot Utah and younger inmates. The older prisoners committed more crimes against persons, fewer property crimes, were older at first arrest, and were less socially deviant, impulsive, and hostile. The first incarcerated older inmates were found to have more often engaged in crim…
Crime and Criminal Justice in a Declining Economy
The pains of imprisonment
Universal Applicability of Probation Risk‐Assessment Instruments
A probation risk‐assessment instrument developed by the State of Wisconsin is receiving wide use throughout the nation and has been recognized by the National Institute of Corrections as part of a “model system.” However, this has been done without extensive validation on populations other than Wisconsin probationers and parolees. The validity of the instrument for a population of City of New York probationers is assessed in this study. It was fo…
The Great American Crime Myth
This is a cogent, although admittedly not unbiased, analysis of misconceptions about crime and the criminal justice system. The main theme of the book is that the `myths' on which efforts to deal with this crime `anxiety' are based stem from two common beliefs--that there is an unprecedented crime wave, and that government should and can do something to recognize the source and purpose they serve, and also to know how and why Americans react to c…
Measurement of Cross‐national Variations in the Extensiveness and Consistency of Due Process
The Great American Crime Myth
Prison officers and their world
A comparison of perceptions of the work environment between minority and non-minority employees of the federal prison system
Twenty-two years of federal investment in criminal justice research
Count us in’ – achieving inclusion in Scottish schools
Inclusive education is now established as part of a global agenda and as such national governments, and their agencies, strive to produce and implement policies to promote inclusion. Scotland is no exception and in 2002 Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HMIe) published a review of ‘good practice’ in the field of inclusion in Scottish schools. This paper is an analysis of the HMIe policy document in terms of research ‘of ’ policy, with anal…
Additional support needs reforms and social justice in Scotland
New additional support‐needs legislation in Scotland sought to recognise the way in which poverty, as well as individual impairment, contribute to the creation of children's difficulties in learning. As well as identifying a wider range of needs, the legislation sought to provide parents, irrespective of social background, with more powerful means of challenging local authority decisions on resource allocation, with the aim of delivering a fairer…
"Giving Voice" to Youths in Out-of-Home Placements
This article describes the impact of participating in a unique approach to positive youth development on a group of youths in out-of-home placements. The program provided young people with the opportunity to inform service providers and other adults about their experiences within the youth services system. Analyses of qualitative data identified seven arenas in which participating youths appeared to be influenced—initiation and growth, safety, co…
Theorising equality in education
L’article porte sur les conséquences de la Loi écossaise sur l’Éducation (2004), favorisant l’accompagnement éducatif des élèves en difficultés d’apprentissage, y compris en raison de leur milieu défavorisé. L’objectif est redistributif mais la loi n’est pas appliquée. Alors que les enfants ayant des besoins d’accompagnement supplémentaires ont plus de chances d’habiter dans des quartiers défavorisés, ils sont plus identifiés comme atteints de tr…
Parental experiences of dealing with disputes in Additional Support Needs in Scotland
Partnerships with parents, particularly in the field of education, have featured prominently in policy rhetoric for many years, but routes of redress have not had much attention until relatively recently. The development of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the UK reflects the situation in several jurisdictions (e.g. Norway, Germany, the Netherlands) where citizens can choose not to go to court to resolve administrative disputes. Under the Educat…
A Qualitative Assessment of a Parent-developed, Parent-run Program to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy
This paper describes an approach to parent education that includes a parent-developed curriculum and parent-facilitated parent training program. The approach was based upon a model of empowerment and self-determination derived from critical and post-modern theoretical perspectives and asserts that parents, working together collectively, can affect meaningful change in their lives. The results of a qualitative assessment support the notion that pe…
The Practical Realities of Implementing Progressive Social Work
What actually happens when an agency sets out to implement progressive social work by shifting power and decision making from agency personnel to people with particular needs? Both staff and participants are thrust into roles different from those they occupy in traditional settings. Interpersonal dynamics change. New ways of making decisions evolve. Tensions arise as new ways of doing things and relating replace usual practices. This article expl…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (5 works)