Meta-Analysis of Rehabilitation Programs for Juvenile Delinquents: A Brief Report

• NCJ Number: 122433
• Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior Volume: 17 Issue: 1 Dated: (March 1990) Pages: 134-142
• Author(s): R L Izzo; R R Ross
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 9 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. Special Issue: Reaffirming Rehabilitation; Report based on M.A. thesis submitted to the Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada

Annotation

A meta-analysis of 46 studies of intervention programs for juvenile delinquents revealed a significant difference between programs that included a cognitive component and those that did not.

Abstract

Cognitive programs were more than twice as effective as noncognitive programs. These results are consistent with previous qualitative analyses and provide support for a cognitive model of offender rehabilitation. 1 table, 24 references. (Publisher abstract)