This revised edition features updated research, new developments in technology, and recent policy on juvenile delinquency and youth violence. The authors underscore the enormous payoff in targeting potential serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders at the earliest opportunity and provide a framework for evidence-informed state juvenile justice systems: the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders. This strategy recognizes, first, that a relatively small proportion of those who enter the juvenile justice system will prove to be serious, violent, or chronic offenders, but that group accounts for a large proportion of overall delinquency. Second, this strategy builds on the fact that serious, violent, or chronic delinquency emerges along developmental pathways, allowing earlier identification of juveniles most at risk for later serious offending. A third component of this approach is effective intervention capable of reducing the recidivism of those juveniles most at risk for further delinquency. This framework emphasizes an evidence-based approach to reducing the recidivism of those juveniles most likely to reoffend from intake onward to probation, community programs, confinement, and reentry.
This revised edition features updated research, new developments in technology, and recent policy on juvenile delinquency and youth violence. The authors underscore the enormous payoff in targeting potential serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders at the earliest opportunity and provide a framework for evidence-informed state juvenile justice systems: the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders. This strategy recognizes, first, that a relatively small proportion of those who enter the juvenile justice system will prove to be serious, violent, or chronic offenders, but that group accounts for a large proportion of overall delinquency. Second, this strategy builds on the fact that serious, violent, or chronic delinquency emerges along developmental pathways, allowing earlier identification of juveniles most at risk for later serious offending. A third component of this approach is effective intervention capable of reducing the recidivism of those juveniles most at risk for further delinquency. This framework emphasizes an evidence-based approach to reducing the recidivism of those juveniles most likely to reoffend from intake onward to probation, community programs, confinement, and reentry.
Chapter 1: Research with Important Implications for Juvenile
Justice Practice
Chapter 2: A Comprehensive Strategy for Evidence-Based Juvenile
Justice Practice
Chapter 3: Effective Evidence-Based Prevention and Intervention
Programs for Juvenile Offenders
Chapter 4: The Standardized Program Evaluation Protocol
Chapter 5: Initiating and Sustaining Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 6: Eight Key Administrative Tools That Support
Evidence-Base Programming
James C. Howell is senior research associate, National Gang Center,
Institute for Intergovernmental Research.
Mark W. Lipsey is research professor, Peabody Research Institute
and Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody
College, Vanderbilt University.
John J. Wilson is senior research associate, Institute for
Intergovernmental Research (IIR).
Megan Q. Howell is contract administrator & data analyst,
Department of Public Safety, DACJJ Juvenile Community Programs.
Nancy J. Hodges is community program development specialist, North
Carolina Department of Public Safety.
It is a great pleasure for me to welcome this highly informative
Handbook, which brilliantly combines comprehensive literature
reviews with practical implications for juvenile justice policy. It
describes a rational strategy for reducing juvenile offending based
on (1) distinguishing serious, violent, and chronic offenders from
others, (2) identifying key risk and protective factors for
offending, (3) matching effective services to treatment needs, (4)
applying graduated sanctions as the criminal career progresses, and
(5) using effective interventions to reduce recidivism. It should
be thoroughly read by everyone who is interested in understanding
and reducing juvenile delinquency.
*David P. Farrington, Cambridge University*
James C. Howell and colleagues have, once again, produced a
comprehensive work that earns the name of Handbook. This volume is
the essential companion and guide for every juvenile justice
practitioner and policy maker. It is required reading for anyone
seriously dedicated to this work, whether at the level of beginning
student, to direct service provider, to chief administrator, to
state policy maker. Properly used, it will become full of yellow
highlights, margin notes and dog-eared pages, as is my copy of the
first edition.
*Steven C. Hornsby, retired Judge and Former Deputy Commissioner,
TN Division of Juvenile Justice*
A Handbook for Evidence-based Juvenile Justice Systems, revised
edition remains the quintessential text for researchers and
practitioners alike with respect to strategies for juvenile justice
reform. Howell and colleagues provide a comprehensive strategy,
couched in empirical support, to provide the right services, to the
right youth, at the right time, and include recommendations
regarding the most pressing juvenile justice reforms. This is an
essential text for juvenile justice administrators, policy makers,
and those implementing or evaluating evidence-based programs.
*Michael Baglivio, PhD, Youth Opportunity Investments*
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