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A Handbook for Evidence-Based Juvenile Justice Systems
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2014
Summary
This handbook promotes a comprehensive strategy founded on evidence-based programming for juvenile justice systems to adopt or enhance their current system. The comprehensive strategy is supported strongly by the broad research base that is now available. This strategy recognizes, first, that a relatively small proportion of the juveniles who initially enter the juvenile justice system will prove to be serious, violent, or chronic offenders, but that group accounts for a large proportion of the overall amount of delinquency. An important component of a comprehensive evidence-based juvenile justice system, therefore, is distinguishing these offenders from others and focusing attention and resources on that smaller group. Second, a comprehensive strategy recognizes that serious, violent, or chronic delinquency emerges along developmental pathways that progress from less to more serious profiles of offending. Priority must be given to interrupting these offender careers by calibrating the level of supervision and control of the juveniles’ behavior to their level of risk. The third major component of a comprehensive strategy, therefore, is effective intervention programs that are capable of reducing the recidivism of those juveniles at risk for further delinquency. The Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders is an administrative framework that supports a continuum of services that parallel the development of offender careers. This framework emphasizes evidence-based programming specifically on recidivism reduction, and supports protocols for developing comprehensive treatment plans that match effective services with offender treatment needs along the life-course of delinquent careers, as they move from intake onward, to probation, community programs, confinement, and reentry. Juvenile justice systems will benefit from incorporation of a comprehensive strategy as provided in the handbook.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8708-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8709-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
192
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Contents No access
Acknowledgements No access
Chapter 1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 2. Research with Important Implications for Juvenile Justice Practice No access Pages 7 - 36
Chapter 3. A Comprehensive Strategy for Evidence-based Juvenile Justice Practice No access Pages 37 - 58
Chapter 4. Effective Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Programs for Juvenile Offenders No access Pages 59 - 72
Chapter 5. The Standardized Program Evaluation Protocol No access Pages 73 - 92
Chapter 6. Initiating and Sustaining Evidence-based Practice No access Pages 93 - 100
Chapter 7. Eight Key Administrative Tools that Support Evidence-Based Programming No access Pages 101 - 130
Chapter 8. Conclusion No access Pages 131 - 132
Appendix: Needed Juvenile Justice System Reforms No access Pages 133 - 158
References No access Pages 159 - 186
Index No access Pages 187 - 190
About the Authors No access Pages 191 - 192
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