NCJ Number
108224
Date Published
1984
Length
94 pages
Annotation
This study provides a statewide overview of Florida's Children, Youth, and Families commitment program operations during fiscal year July 1982-June 1983.
Abstract
Males composed 84.4 percent of the commitment population, and 54 percent of the commitment population was white. The average cost per successful completion ranged from $961 to $6,214. Felony offenses, mostly property crime, occasioned 75.5 percent of the commitments. San Antonio Boys Village, training schools, and the Florida Environmental Institute had the highest percentage of felony offenders. Over 60 percent of the training school commitments were recommitments or revocations, and approximately 72 percent of the commitments completed the programs to which they were assigned. Of a sample of youths furloughed during July-December 1979, 36.7 percent were either recommitted, revoked, subsequently placed on adult probation, or incarcerated in adult facilities within 20 months of furlough. A recidivism study of a sample of graduates from commitment programs during the same period indicates that Group Treatment Homes and the San Antonio Boys Village had the highest recidivism rates: 55.5 percent and 54.5 percent within a 24-month followup period. Intensive counseling and halfway houses had the lowest recidivism rates (21.7 percent and 23.6 percent). 8 footnotes and extensive data tables. (Author summary modified)