Intervention With Juvenile Offenders: Recent and Long-Term Changes (From Intensive Interventions With High-Risk Youths, P 85-120, 1991, Troy L Armstrong, ed. -- See NCJ-129819)

• NCJ Number: 129822
• Author(s): T B Palmer
• Date Published: 1991
• Length: 36 pages
• Sale Source: Criminal Justice Press/Willow Tree Press
• Publication Type: Historical Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

This review of juvenile correctional intervention from the early 1980's to the present considers the goals and nature of treatment, intensive intervention, and issues and prospects.

Abstract

From the early 1960's to the early 1970's, there was widespread confidence in the capacity of correctional intervention to change and control offenders over the short term and the long term. This optimism was largely supplanted by pessimism about intervention during 1975-81. By 1983-84 there was evidence for the "relatively-little-works" view as well as for a "several-things-sometimes-work" view. During the rest of the 1980's, confidence in intervention was renewed in terms of focus, direction, and legitimacy. As the 1990's begin, intervention has a recognized and accepted role in the management of serious and multiple offenders. Intervention can have a variety of forms including skill-development methods, control/surveillance techniques, psychologically-oriented programs, and combinations of the previous three. Intensive supervision emphasizes one or more of these approaches. The stability and longevity of confidence in intervention in general and specific intervention programs rests upon reliable evaluations that indicate which intervention methods are effective with which types of offenders. Appended supplementary study, 20 notes, and 90 references