Repeat Status Offenders: Detention, Over-correction and Politics

• NCJ Number: 132101
• Journal: Journal for Juvenile Justice and Detention Services Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1990) Pages: 38-40
• Author(s): J S Smith; N Koch
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 3 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

A 1988 survey of 77 juvenile detention and juvenile corrections administrators from 44 states gathered information on their perceptions of the problems presented by juvenile status offenders and repeat status offenders.

Abstract

Fifty-eight percent of the participants reported that the detention of repeat status offenders had a serious impact on the overcrowding of juvenile detention and juvenile corrections facilities. Most county detention employees, but only 43 percent of State corrections employees, held this view. The differences in the perceptions of local and State officials indicates the need for local detention center administrators and staff to organize themselves for political action on this issue. Table