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Intensive Interventions with High-Risk Youths: Promising Approaches in Juvenile Probation and Parole

T.L. Armstrong, editor
 
ISBN: 978-0-9606960-7-9
$35.00
1991/447 pages

A CriminalJusticePress Project

DESCRIPTION

The current wave of juvenile intensive interventions appears to be gaining ever-increasing popularity and momentum. This book helps to ensure procedures that state the goals of the intervention, objectively clasify youths for possible participation, precisely match supervision and service types and levels to the appropriate clients, and produce hard outcome data about effectiveness.

CONTENTS

  • Introduction—the Editor.
  • OVERVIEW OF JUVENILE INTENSIVE SUPERVISION.
  • Juvenile Intensive Probation Supervision: Theory and Rationale—T.R. Clear.
  • Intensive Aftercare for the High-Risk Juvenile Parolee: Issues and Approaches in Reintegration and Community Supervision—D.M. Altschuler and T.L. Armstrong.
  • Intervention With Juvenile Offenders: Recent and Long-Term Changes—T.B. Palmer.
  • PROGRAMMING ISSUES AND SPECIALIZED APPROACHES IN JUVENILE ITNENSIVE SUPERVISION.
  • Work Experience and Employment Programming for Serious Juvenile Offenders: Prospects for a "Productive Engagement" Model of Intensive Supervision—G. Bazemore.
  • Variations in "Doing" Juvenile Intensive Supervision: Programmatic Issues in Four Ohio Jurisdictions—R.G. Wiebush and D.M. Hamparian.
  • Use of Electronic Monitoring with Juvenile Intensive Supervision Programs—J.B. Vaughn.
  • A Comprehensive Therapeutic Community Approach for Chronic Substance-Abusing Juvenile Offenders: The AMITY Model—R. Mullen, N. Arbiter, and P. Glider.
  • Restitution and Community Work Service: Proomising Core Ingredients for Effective Intensive Supervision Programming—A.R. Klein.
  • Selective Aftercare for Juvenile Parolees: Administrative Environment and Placement Decisions—J.F. Springer.
  • EVALUATION OF JUVENILE INTENSIVE SUPERVISION.
  • Intensive Supervision Programs for High-Risk Juvenles; Critical Issues of Program Evaluation—S.C. Baird.
  • Intensive Supervision Alternatives for Adjudicated Juveniles—W.H. Barton and J.A. Butts.
  • The Social Context of Intensive Supervision: Organization and Ecological Influences on Community Treatment of Violent Adolescents—J.A. Fagan and C. Reinarman.
  • The Regional Youth Educational Facility: A Promising Short-Term Intensive Institutional and Afercare Program for Juvenile Court Wards—N. Skonovd and W.A. Krause.
  • Juvenile Intensive Supervision: A Longitudianal Evaluation of Program Effectiveness—N. Feinberg.