CONTEMPORARY PROGRAMS FOR CONVICTED JUVENILE OFFENDERS - PROBLEMS OF THEORY, PRACTICE AND RESEARCH (FROM CRIMES OF VIOLENCE - SEE NCJ-00571)

• NCJ Number: 4917
• Author(s): L T EMPEY
• Date Published: 1969
• Length: 59 pages
• Corporate Author: National Commission on the Causes & Prevention of Violence
• Publication Format: Document

Annotation

EXAMINATION OF RESEARCH ON IDENTIFICATION AND TREATMENT OF DELINQUENTS, AND EVALUATION OF THE SUCCESS OF THE MAJOR CORRECTIONAL APPROACHES TO DELINQUENCY.

Abstract

NO AGREEMENT WAS FOUND ON THE PROBLEMS OF DEFINING DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR AND CORRECTIONAL GOALS. TO IMPROVE THIS SITUATION, THE AUTHOR RECOMMENDS THAT A NATIONAL SYSTEM BE ESTABLISHED TO COORDINATE INFORMATION AND RESEARCH ON DELINQUENCY, AND THAT GREATER ATTENTION BE PAID TO PREVENTIVE AND REHABILITATIVE EFFORTS BY COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS. A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF CORRECTIONAL MODELS, INCLUDING PROBATION, INCARCERATION, TREATMENT OFFENDER MATCHING, GROUP THERAPY, AND LEARNING THEORY PROGRAMS, REVEALED THAT PROBATION WAS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MEANS OF REDUCING JUVENILE RECIDIVISM. A DETAILED BIBLIOGRAPHY IS PROVIDED ON JUVENILE CORRECTIONS