That's what's in store for youth at the Kansas Boys Industrial School, thanks to an innovative residential treatment program. (Editor)

Examines the closing of the Massachusetts public training schools, using it as a successful example of public policy termination. Describes how the barriers to policy termination were overcome and the replacement policy was consolidated, and evaluates the termination tactics and the new policy. Available from Elsevier Scientific Publishing…

Suggestions for teaching selected life skills to adult and juvenile offenders are presented in this document. The general purpose of life skills programming is to help persons live more successfully and to function better in their multiple roles as members of a family, community, and workforce. Life skills training is treated as an educational…

A study of 101 home visits to 87 boys and their families in Massachusetts at the Shirley Industrial School for Boys concludes that boys from supportive families made greater progress in rehabilitation. A supportiveness'' continuum assessed family harmony and parental childrearing attitudes, parole office rankings, and researcher family…

A sociologist who founded a college program at San Quentin traces the growth of education in American prisons. Today prisoners and colleges are partners in a vast program with far-reaching implications for the correctional process. (Editor)

Therapeutic techniques based on guided group interaction are being used widely in Kentucky institutions in the treatment of juvenile delinquents. The peer group plays a key role as the catalyst for change. (Author)

Questions the availability to juveniles of protection from double jeopardy in State juvenile proceedings. (JF)

Summarizes and synthesizes five studies using evaluations of their Outward Bound or adaptive programs for delinquency intervention. (ERB)

Recognizing that community acceptance of potential juvenile justice treatment programs often determines the success or failure of the programs, an assessment model was developed to assist in policy planning. The procedure applies the tenets and methods of subjective expectancy utility models. (Author/GK)

The return of juvenile delinquents to school systems as a condition of probation has presented educators with serious difficulties. The life skills course at Lakeview Secondary School was developed to meet these needs. Students are on probation, have poor socialization skills, and are "high-risk." Role playing is utilized by trained…

Reports on a community-based counseling program for the treatment of juvenile delinquents. The counseling program provided a friendly, supportive role model for reducing recidivism among juvenile delinquents. Suggests that a community-based program using student counselors may be an effective option for the treatment of juvenile delinquency.…

This paper defines and discusses Guindon's reeducation theory as a treatment orientation for delinquent rehabilitation. (SJL)

Reports a continuation of prior research testing a theoretical model which predicts that juveniles subjected to abuse will not become aggressive but will engage in escape and social avoidance behaviors. Analysis supported the hypothesis. (Author)

Examines the development and implementation of two training programs for youth advancement counselors that aim to improve counselors' self-efficacy and stress-coping abilities. Findings show that both versions positively affected self-efficacy, with self-efficacy of the subject group being significantly increased when compared to control groups.…

Examined records of 558 juveniles sheltered at short-term residential facility for five years to determine effect of Illinois' Minor Requiring Authoritative Intervention (MRAI) statute on status offenders. Results indicated that dispositions of clients MRAI legislation were not significantly different from earlier dispositions under old Minor in…