21st September 2011
A new report from the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice entitled Resolution, Reinvestment, and Realignment: Three Strategies for Changing Juvenile Justice reviews the most prominent juvenile correctional reform models from the past 40 years, and looks at whether the reforms represent a permanent shift in policy and practice, or are a temporary reaction to tight budgets and low rates of violent crime.
The report categorizes the reform models into three types:
The authors acknowledge that any of the three models can be effective, but they recommend realignment as the approach most likely to be sustainable over time.
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Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.