Provides tools that juvenile justice advocates and professionals can use to enhance conditions of confinement for detained and incarcerated youth. Discusses six approaches for improving conditions of confinement for youth in custody.

Explores diverse sources of information to address the questions, obstacles, and pitfalls that are likely to arise in planning and operating a boot camp for juvenile offenders. Provides a conceptual framework and practical guide for policymakers, corrections officials, and service providers who are weighing decisions about implementing or expanding juvenile boot camp programs.

Presents videotaped proceedings of a 1993 national teleconference. Features findings and recommendations from the landmark OJJDP research project Conditions of Confinement: Juvenile Detention and Corrections Facilities.

Provides practitioners practical guidance on best practices under Program Purpose Area 1 of the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants program. Presents information on construction decisions, master planning, facility development, operations, and staff training. Contains a step-by-step explanation of the planning process, thorough instructions on determining the type of facility needed, and a detailed discussion of the key elements of operation.

Defines contemporary state-of-the-art juvenile detention practices. Explores the background principles, concepts, and knowledge that are at the core of juvenile detention and juvenile justice and examines daily practice, addressing the principles and concepts for skill acquisition.

Provides a comprehensive description of accepted juvenile probation practices. Serves as a reference and resource document for practitioners from intake through supervision.

Provides an overview of diversion programs and evaluation findings from the Detention Diversion Advocacy Project (DDAP), a disposition case advocacy program operating in San Francisco, CA. Lists DDAP's major goals: to reduce the number of youth in court-ordered detention and provide youth with supervision and culturally relevant community-based services.

Summarizes the strategies that OJJDP promotes to combat disproportionate minority confinement (DMC) in juvenile facilities and minority overrepresentation at all points in the juvenile justice system. Examines Pennsylvania's efforts to address these issues and includes a detailed description of DMC programs that have been implemented throughout the State.

Explains OJJDP's Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC) initiative. Describes how five pilot States assessed the extent to which minority juveniles were disproportionately confined by their juvenile justice systems, designed comprehensive DMC strategies, and implemented interventions to address identified problems. Also summarizes lessons learned from a national evaluation of the DMC initiative.

Provides a comprehensive review of literature and research on topics related to correctional education, such as education programs for female offenders, law-related education, special education, and community-based programs.

Presents videotaped proceedings of a 1996 teleconference. Discusses unique and effective intervention strategies in three community-based or secure correctional settings and highlights the importance of effective intensive aftercare programs.

Arizona Final Report. 1996. 111 pp.
NCJ 161564.
Florida Final Report. 1996. 84 pp.
NCJ 161563.
Iowa Final Report. 1996. 115 pp.
NCJ 161562.
North Carolina Final Report. 1996.97 pp.
NCJ 161561.
Oregon Final Report. 1996. 71 pp.
NCJ 161560.

Cleveland Interim Report. 1996. 160 pp.
NCJ 160928.
Denver Interim Report. 1996. 108 pp.
NCJ 160927.
Mobile Interim Report. 1996. 119 pp.
NCJ 160926.

Presents evaluation findings of the first three experimental boot camp programs in Cleveland, Denver, and Mobile, which became operational in April 1992. Notes that these programs emphasize discipline, treatment, and work and focus on a target population of adjudicated, nonviolent offenders under age 18. Explains that these programs include a highly structured 3-month residential program, followed by 6 to 9 months of community-based aftercare.

Reports on the interim findings of OJJDP's initiative to assess intensive juvenile aftercare program models for serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders. Describes the framework for the prototype proposed for field testing.

Presents a review of programs and literature concerning juvenile prerelease, transition, reintegration, and aftercare. Includes information on assessment and classification for risk and need, descriptions of community- and institution-based programs, and an overview of theory-driven interventions.

Explains the underlying principles and program elements of the intensive aftercare program model, which can be applied in a variety of settings. Addresses organizational factors, case management, and program evaluation.

Provides a summary and preliminary analysis of national and State juvenile arrest data reported in the FBI's November 1998 report Crime in the United States 1997. Presents data that show decreases in juvenile violent crime despite continuing growth in the juvenile population; for example, in 1997, for the third year in a row, the total number of juvenile arrests for Violent Crime Index offenses (murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) declined. Copies of Juvenile Arrests for 1995 and 1996 are also available.

Provides a summary and analysis of national and State juvenile arrest data from the FBI's October 1999 report Crime in the United States 1998. Includes data that show that in 1998, for the fourth consecutive year, total juvenile arrests for Violent Crime Index offenses (murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) declined.

Presents videotaped proceedings of a 1996 teleconference. Explores the general characteristics, operational concepts, and implementation issues of juvenile boot camps. Assesses the results of an evaluation of three boot camps and illustrates changes made because of this evaluation.

Presents information on training resources that corrections managers can use to increase knowledge and strengthen skills among line staff. Includes a literature review of job-related skills and training requirements and makes recommendations for assessing and improving training.

Presents an analysis of the literature on juvenile intensive supervision programs and describes the organization and operation of 11 such programs identified through onsite assessments. Also makes recommendations for development of a national replication model.

Describes this intermediate sanction program as an alternative to secure detention. Provides program components and implementation information for model programs.

Summarizes the workload problems, agency initiatives, and special issues of juvenile probation professionals as reported in the 1992 Juvenile Probation Officer Initiative Survey. Describes the probation profession, the youth it serves, and the issues it faces, including on-the-job safety, insufficient resources, understaffing, and heavy caseloads.

Depicts common scenarios that require decisions about when and how to temporarily hold both delinquent and nondelinquent offenders. A training guide accompanies the video; single copies of the guide are available by calling or writing JJC.

Presents survey results that profile reading programs in juvenile correctional facilities.

Describes OJJDP's efforts to help States comply with the provisions of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act that require removal of juveniles from adult correctional facilities.

Presents evidence of a link between academic failure and delinquency and recommends ways to improve reading instruction.

Examines what has worked in reintegrating juvenile offenders, what has not worked, and what has caused success or failure. Describes the intensive aftercare program model, explains why it is different from other models and programs that have been implemented, and analyzes individual intensive aftercare programs. Also evaluates existing aftercare programs and studies of these programs.

Provides a collection of ideas and resources about successful juvenile detention and corrections programs already in practice. Includes sections on aftercare programs, alternatives to secure detention, prevention, and secure programs.

Summarizes research findings that demonstrate the advantages of intensive, systematic phonics instruction in beginning reading programs. For use in juvenile corrections and detention sites.