A new report from the Casey Foundation lays out a vision of sweeping changes and new and expanded priorities for juvenile probation. Based on more than 25 years of experience with JDAI™ and five years of studying probation with practitioners, youth, families, researchers and pilot sites, Transforming Juvenile Probation: A Vision for Getting It Right describes how and why systems must reimagine the most common disposition in juvenile justice to get better outcomes for young people.
Probation plays a pivotal role in the juvenile justice system, with nearly 400,000 receiving it in some form each year. Probation should offer court-involved youth who would otherwise be confined the chance to remain in the community productively. Evidence shows, however, that juvenile probation as its structured now doesn’t work.
Research demonstrates that surveillance-oriented probation — a judge imposing a list of rules that the young person must follow and a probation officer keeping tabs on the youth to monitor compliance — is not an effective strategy for reversing delinquent behavior, especially for youth at low risk of rearrest.
[For more on this story by THE ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION, go to http://www.aecf.org/blog/a-bol...ile-probation-right/]
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