NCJ Number
123075
Journal
Corrections Today Volume: 51 Issue: 5 Dated: special issue (August 1989), feature articles
Editor(s)
L O Zaner
Date Published
1989
Length
38 pages
Annotation
Eight articles profile innovative juvenile corrections programs designed to better meet the needs of troubled youth.
Abstract
The opening article describes how Linda D'Amario Rossi, head of Maryland's Juvenile Services Agency, moved the State's juvenile services from an emphasis on custodial institutions to individualized community-based programs administered and staffed by appropriately trained personnel. A second article describes how 17 rural Oregon counties pooled their resources to provide quality juvenile correctional services that each was unable to afford on its own. Another article advocates the development of juvenile correctional programs that both provide incentives and opportunities for juveniles to adopt constructive behavior while providing deterrents and reasonable consequences for continued delinquent behavior. Experiential education that provides juveniles active, adaptive, and competitive challenges is highlighted as being more likely to produce behavioral change than cognitive and analytical programs. Other articles discuss a 4-H program for youth at risk of delinquency, program parity for female juvenile offenders, and planning for suicide prevention in juvenile detention facilities.