NCJ Number
127229
Date Published
1983
Length
90 pages
Annotation
Chapters discuss planning, developing, implementing, and operating various types of programs for violent juvenile offenders.
Abstract
The first chapter discusses aspects of planning, developing, and implementing programs for the serious and violent offender. The planning stage focuses on identifying the characteristics and needs of the target client, determining program components that best respond to the client's needs, ascertaining resources and obstacles, and then deciding how to pay for the program. Development tasks pertain to screening for the target population, tasks and deliverables, program structure, interagency cooperation, and funding mechanisms. Implementation focuses on staffing and management. A chapter on selected intervention strategies considers behavior therapy and operant conditioning, reality therapy, milieu therapy, and psychotherapy. Another chapter details methods of controlling and supervising violent juvenile offenders in a community-based, nonsecure program followed by a discussion of the program components of education and leisure activities. The concluding chapter addresses the development of community relations that facilitate the integration of violent juvenile offenders into the community as they progress in treatment. Chapter references and appended workshop agenda