This report provides the results of the first of three phases of research conducted as part of the Children in Custody Questionnaire Redesign Project for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the Justice Department from 1994 to 1997. There are two objectives for this multi-stage questionnaire redesign project. The second goal is to develop new wording for facility screening and classification questions to replace critical questions in the existing questionnaire. A substantial number of problems with the existing instrument are identified. Other problems have to do with classification issues concerning facility type, security, and community access.
Additional issues relate to operations, procedures, and methods of data collection.
May 17, 1996. Schwede, Laurie and Gallagher, Catherine. October 30, 1996. Schwede, Laurie and Ellis, Yukiko. October 30, 1997.