Court Residential Treatment Centers: Developmental Perspective and Update of Selected Observations

• NCJ Number: 232862
• Author(s): Frank Lozito; Roger L. Poulsen
• Date Published: May 2008
• Length: 8 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Dr. Frank Lozito (1930-2000) served as Director, West Texas Regional Adult Probation Department. Dr. Roger L. Poulsen served as Consultant and Adjunct Advisor to Dr. Lozito.

Annotation

This article discusses the Court Residential Treatment Center (CRTC) concept as an alternative to incarceration and updates the authors' May 1984 article, "Court Residential Treatment Centers: Selected Observations" (see NCJ 232847).

Abstract

The CRTC concept presents a alternative to offender incarceration. This works incorporates some El Paso CRTC program historical and experimental elements from a prior article (May 1984), but with an updated addition of a generic CRTC/community-based programs evolutionary perspective, with implications that extend beyond particular community-based/CRTC program, agency, and geographic insularity.