This book aims to inform students about the latest research and the most promising and
effective programs and for understanding, preventing and controlling juvenile delinquency …

As a society we want our children to be healthy, safe, happy, fulfilled, and connected to
others in a loving, positive manner—and as parents we do whatever we can to ensure those …

Risk assessment instruments are increasingly employed by juvenile justice settings to
estimate the likelihood of recidivism among delinquent juveniles. In concert with their …

This article reviews research on juvenile delinquency and effective programs and proposes
a juvenile justice research agenda focused on diffusion of existing research into practice …

This article describes the efforts undertaken during the past five years for the Georgia Board
of Pardons and Paroles to develop a method for assessing parolee risk to inform the …

A primary threat to the operative effectiveness of drug courts is high failure rates. Empirically
supported screening devices could aid drug court administrators in maximizing resources …

One of the explicit goals of many recent and ongoing criminal justice interventions is to
target youth most at risk for involvement in serious, chronic, and violent offending. While …

For more than a decade, the juvenile justice field in the United States has been dominated
by the seventh “moral panic” over juvenile delinquency. This panic led to an overreaction to …

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the interaction between family and
extrafamilial system factors with self system factors on adolescents' sexual risk behaviors …

Actuarial risk assessments are a vital part of evidenced-based correctional intervention on
the juvenile delinquent population. Risk assessments should demonstrate predictive validity …