NCJ Number
124559
Date Published
1981
Length
21 pages
Annotation
This report summarizes a national evaluation of the largest funded delinquency prevention program in American history.
Abstract
The major finding emerging from the data on direct services is that the grantees, lacking specific federally mandated guidelines or explicit delinquency prevention theories, delivered the same type of services that they had been providing for many years under the new rubric of delinquency prevention. For the most part, grantees lacked formal intake screening procedures to decide which youth should receive what type of service. The grantee proposals and subsequent programs did not reflect a clear statement of delinquency theory on which programs were based. Projects lacked logically linked sets of program objectives and service activities appropriate to meet such objectives. Grantee proposals envisioned a multi-service approach to counter a wide range of service deficiencies believed to contribute to delinquent activity -- but this was not achieved. With the exception of the coalitions and national agency efforts, few grantees identified separate project components that were specifically geared to build agency service capacity or to broaden community support for future programs.