Fact Sheet: Emerging Findings and Policy Implications from the Pathways to Desistance Study
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
Jan. 09, 2013
ANNOTATION: 'The Pathways to Desistance study is a large, multi-site, collaborative project that follows over 1,300 youth ages 14-18 for seven years after their convictions. All youth who participated in the study were considered 'serious offenders'; many had multiple prior court cases and had just received a conviction for a serious charge'almost exclusively felonies'including murder, robbery, aggravated assault, and sex offenses in either the juvenile or adult system. This fact sheet provides recent findings and policy implications stemming from the research' (p. 1). Results show that: justice-involved youth are not the same; their present offenses do not lend themselves to predictions regarding future behavior; arrests in the future are directly related to substance abuse; substance abuse treatment reduces recidivism; the rate of re-arrests do not decline if youth are incarcerated'in fact they appear to increase; and youth are less prone to re-offend if they are treated fairly and given access to needed services.
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