PMID- 12679278
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20030827
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1537-4416 (Print)
IS  - 1537-4416 (Linking)
VI  - 32
IP  - 2
DP  - 2003 Jun
TI  - Impacting re-arrest rates among youth sentenced in adult court: an 
      epidemiological examination of the Juvenile Sentencing Advocacy Project.
PG  - 205-14
AB  - Examines the impact of a program aimed at reducing re-offending among juveniles 
      transferred to adult court in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Initiated in 1998, the 
      Juvenile Sentencing Advocacy Project (JSAP) worked to increase the degree to 
      which defense lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and police officers considered the 
      developmental status of youth charged with crimes, as well as the contextual 
      basis for their behavior and their potential for rehabilitation. Through such 
      activities, the goal was to increase the use of juvenile sanctions, rather than 
      traditional adult sentences. Based on previous research, it was predicted that 
      increased use of juvenile sanctions would be associated with fewer youth 
      re-offending. This article examines 162 youth who were transferred to and 
      sentenced in adult court during 1999. Re-offense patterns were monitored through 
      June 2001. Analyses using epidemiological measures of effect found that the use 
      of juvenile sanctions significantly increased following implementation of JSAP 
      and that youth receiving adult probation or boot camp were 1.74 to 2.29 times 
      more likely to re-offend than were youth receiving juvenile sanctions. The 
      increased use of juvenile sanctions following implementation of JSAP corresponded 
      to an 11.2% to 15.3% decrease in the number of youth one would have anticipated 
      would re-offend had previous patterns of sentencing continued.
FAU - Mason, Craig A
AU  - Mason CA
AD  - College of Education and Human Development, University of Maine, USA. 
      craig.mason@umit.maine.edu
FAU - Chapman, Derek A
AU  - Chapman DA
FAU - Chang, Shau
AU  - Chang S
FAU - Simons, Julie
AU  - Simons J
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol
JT  - Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for 
      the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological 
      Association, Division 53
JID - 101133858
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Child Advocacy/*legislation & jurisprudence
MH  - Combined Modality Therapy/statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Education, Special
MH  - Epidemiologic Research Design
MH  - Female
MH  - Florida
MH  - Humans
MH  - Inservice Training
MH  - Juvenile Delinquency/legislation & jurisprudence/rehabilitation/*statistics & 
      numerical data
MH  - Male
MH  - Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
MH  - Patient Care Team/legislation & jurisprudence
MH  - *Rehabilitation, Vocational
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - Secondary Prevention
EDAT- 2003/04/08 05:00
MHDA- 2003/08/28 05:00
CRDT- 2003/04/08 05:00
PHST- 2003/04/08 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/08/28 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2003/04/08 05:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1207/S15374424JCCP3202_5 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2003 Jun;32(2):205-14. doi: 
      10.1207/S15374424JCCP3202_5.