Missing, Presumed Trafficked: Towards non-binary understandings of ‘wayward’ youth in Jamaica

Wayward Youth

combined to produce Searchlights on Delinquency, a volume of essays, in honour of Aichhorn's 70th birthday. The editor of that book, K. R. Eissler, has written a biographical sketch of Aichhorn especially for this edition. Aichhorn was first and foremost an intuitive worker of genius, and had made a reputation with his Vienna institution for delinquent boys, some years before he discovered psyc...

Globalization and Youth: Evolving Understandings

Youth Violence Prevention in Jamaica 1 Running Head: YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION IN JAMAICA The Kingston YMCA Youth Development Programme: Impact on Violence Among At-Risk Youth in Jamaica

We present data on aggression-related outcomes for participants in the Kingston YMCA Youth Development Programme. This program is designed to provide at-risk, lowincome males ages 14-17 in urban Kingston, Jamaica with intensive remedial education, social skills training, and personal development over three to four years. Two samples of youth were included: (a) 180 males, 125 of whom were curren...

Missing Values in Binary Matrices

Missing values frequently pose problems in binary matrices analysis since they can hinder downstream analysis of the datasets. Despite the presence of many imputation methods that have been developed to substitute missing values with estimated values, these available techniques have some common disadvantages: they need to fix some parameters (e.g., number of patterns, number of rows to consider...

Missing... presumed at random: cost-analysis of incomplete data.

When collecting patient-level resource use data for statistical analysis, for some patients and in some categories of resource use, the required count will not be observed. Although this problem must arise in most reported economic evaluations containing patient-level data, it is rare for authors to detail how the problem was overcome. Statistical packages may default to handling missing data t...