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The Missouri Model: Reducing the Practice of Rehabilitating Youthful Offenders: Summary Report
The Missouri Model: Reducing the Practice of Rehabilitating Youthful Offenders: Summary Report
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Mar. 11, 2011
ANNOTATION: This review explains how the Missouri Division of Youth Services’ approach to juvenile corrections helps youth become productive citizens, ensures public safety, and saves money. Other states looking to implement juvenile justice reforms should consult this report. Utilizing “smaller, regionally dispersed facilities…Missouri offers a demanding, carefully crafted, multi-layered treatment experience designed to challenge troubled teens and to help them make lasting behavioral changes and prepare for successful transitions back to the community (p. 3). Sections of this report are: growing interest and impressive results; core characteristics; underlying values, beliefs, and treatment philosophy; organizational essentials; and replicating the model. The Division has a youthful offender recidivism rate of 24% following three years of release. Since keeping one teen from a life of crime can save the community $3-6 million, the Missouri Model saves the state tens of millions of dollars.
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