Describes this intermediate sanction program as an alternative to secure detention. Provides program components and implementation information for model programs. Summarizes the workload problems, agency initiatives, and special issues of juvenile probation professionals as reported in the 1992 Juvenile Probation Officer Initiative Survey. Depicts common scenarios that require decisions about when and how to temporarily hold both delinquent and nondelinquent offenders. National Survey of Reading Programs for Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders. 1993.
Presents survey results that profile reading programs in juvenile correctional facilities.
Through Research-Based Reading Instruction. Presents evidence of a link between academic failure and delinquency and recommends ways to improve reading instruction. Examines what has worked in reintegrating juvenile offenders, what has not worked, and what has caused success or failure. Describes the intensive aftercare program model, explains why it is different from other models and programs that have been implemented, and analyzes individual intensive aftercare programs. Also evaluates existing aftercare programs and studies of these programs.