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Safe and Sound: A New Approach to Juvenile Justice and Its Effect on Public Safety and Spending in Connecticut
Safe and Sound: A New Approach to Juvenile Justice and Its Effect on Public Safety and Spending in Connecticut
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 25, 2012
ANNOTATION: Efforts to reform the Connecticut’s juvenile justice system and their outcomes are covered. Sections following an executive summary include: public safety—arrest data, recidivism data, and analysis; diverting children from the system—status offense data (child outcomes and taxpayer savings), diversion data (Juvenile Review Boards, Case Review Teams, and analysis); appropriate sanctions and services—one size doesn’t fit all, clinical coordinators, Youth Empowered for Success (YES), confinement data, and raise the age; a fair, effective system—racial disparity, arrests in schools, inappropriate arrest, and regional differences; and conclusion. “Clearly Connecticut’s philosophical shift has created gains. Serving children proactively in the least restrictive and least expensive parts of the system – or ideally outside the system – works. Evidence-based programming works. Addressing the root causes of behavior works. Connecticut should employ these proven and cost-effective strategies in earnest to address serious remaining issues” (p. 2).
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