Research on criminal justice in rural areas is historically infrequent in the United States, and
even though it has become more frequent recently, there has been even less work focused …

Probation plays a central role in the juvenile justice system, and probation officers are often
involved in numerous decisions made in juvenile courts. This study examines the views of …

Probation supervision, drug testing, restitution, community service, family counseling, drug
and alcohol education, outpatient mental health services, house arrest, and alternative …

The majority of justice‐involved youth are placed on probation; however, many of those
same youth struggle to comply with probation requirements and are subsequently confined …

Probation officers are the focal point for most interventions with delinquent youths in the
juvenile justice system. The present study examines probation strategies and interventions …

This paper examines the experiences of service providers that coordinate and provide
services for youthful offenders in rural areas. With juvenile offender recidivism rates around …

California places tens of thousands of juveniles into its 58 county-based justice systems
every year. The offenders do not generally experience reduced rates of recidivism. Evidence …

There have been multiple risk factors identified that lead to youth delinquent behaviors and
activities. These risks are family, school, peer, disability, and neighborhood related, though …

BY THE EARLY 1990s, the juvenile justice system was facing yet another crisis in its 100
years of existence-juvenile violent crime rates had increased. From the late 1980s through …

Purpose. The first purpose of this case study was to determine the importance of the number
of treatment programs within a probation department to reducing juvenile recidivism as …