Individualized intervention with young multiple offenders / Ted Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, Ted.

Series:

Current issues in criminal justice (Routledge (Firm))

Current issues in criminal justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile delinquency--Prevention.

Juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile delinquents--Mental health services.

Juvenile delinquents.

Juvenile delinquents--Mental health.

Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 1173 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Contents:

Volume 1 California's Community Treatment Project

Part I An Experiment in Individualized Intervention

Chapter 2 Organization, Intake, and Assumptions 11

Chapter 3 Program Elements 29

Chapter 4 The Youths: Background and I-Level 47

Chapter 5 Personality Types and Case Illustrations 55

Chapter 6 Methods of Intervention 69

Part II Program Effectiveness and Matching

Chapter 7 Research Questions and Measures of Impact 89

Chapter 8 Program Effectiveness for Valley Youths 95

Chapter 9 Program Effectiveness for San Francisco Youths 109

Chapter 10 Social Risk, Pre/Post Change, Age, and Costs 125

Chapter 11 Matching of Worker and Youth 159

Part III Review, Phase 3, Implications, and Key Factors

Chapter 12 Review of Findings 197

Chapter 13 The Phase 3 Experiment: Adding an Institutional Component 213

Chapter 14 Program Review and General Implications 231

Chapter 15 Key Factors in Performance 245

Chapter 16 Additional Observations Regarding Key Factors 275

Part IV The Feasibility of Community-Based, Individualized Intervention

Chapter 17 Social Agency and Parent Organization Factors 291

Chapter 18 Staff, Unit Functioning, and Supervisory Factors 305

Chapter 19 Case Processing, Maintenance, and Other Operational Factors 323

Chapter 20 Review and Discussion of Feasibility 353

Volume 2 Issues, Theory, and Perspectives

Part I Issues and Developments

Chapter 21 Validity of the Research Findings 397

Chapter 22 Further Validity and Related Issues 461

Chapter 23 Selected Individualized Programs 645

Part II Rationales, Theory, Ethics, and Trends

Chapter 24 Intervention

Its Rationales and the Needs-Centered Approach 697

Chapter 25 Theory, Goals, and Stances toward Intervention 733

Chapter 26 Content Effects, and Conclusions Regarding Rationales for Intervention 777

Chapter 27 Selected Trends and a Habilitation/Developmental Framework 817

Part III Perspectives on Community-Based, Individualized Intervention

Chapter 28 Benefits and Underlying Beliefs 843

Chapter 29 Differing Perspectives on Offenders 855

Chapter 30 Individualization, Offender Needs, and Related Issues 895

Appendix 1 Details Regarding the Phase 2 Objectives 925

Appendix 2 Initial Staffing Guide 926

Appendix 3 Parole Agreement Used throughout CYA during Phases 1 and 2 927

Appendix 4 Sacramento Community Center Floor Plan 928

Appendix 5 Background Characteristics of Youths 929

Appendix 6 Details Concerning I-Level Theory and Personality Types 936

Appendix 7 Rare Types of Youths 944

Appendix 8 Number of Contacts per Month between Agent and Youth during First Year on Parole 952

Appendix 9 Criteria for Favorable and Unfavorable Discharge, Used throughout the Youth Authority during Phases 1 and 2 953

Appendix 10 Community Treatment Project Severity-of-Offense Scale 955

Appendix 11 Comparisons on Background Characteristics of Experimental and Control Valley Males in Phase 1 and 2 Parole and Post-Discharge Follow-ups 958

Appendix 12 Comparisons between Regular Controls and Directly Paroled Controls on Selected Background Variables 962

Appendix 13 Performance of Valley Males in Areas of School and Paid Employment 963

Appendix 14 Monthly Rate of Offending for Favorable Dischargees 966

Appendix 15 Method for Computing the Number of Arrests per 100 Youths during a Nine-Year Follow-Up 969

Appendix 16 Rate of Arrest during Each of 11 Years Prior to Youth Authority Commitment, for Valley Boys 974

Appendix 17 Rate of Arrest for Moderate Plus Severe Offenses during Each of 11 Years Prior to Youth Authority Commitment, for Valley Boys

by Age 976

Appendix 18 Number of Offenses per 1,000 Months at Risk during Three-Year Precommitment and Three-Year Postcommitment (Parole) Periods, for Valley Males

by Age 978

Appendix 19 Number and Severity of Prior Arrests among Valley Boys

by Age 980

Appendix 20 Computation of Youth Authority Career Costs 982

Appendix 21 Computation of Post-Discharge Costs for Other Correctional and Law Enforcement Experiences, Separate for Experimentals and Controls 988

Appendix 22 Developments and Issues in Matching during Early Years of CTP 990

Appendix 23 Selected Questions Used with Candidates for CTP 993

Appendix 24 Factors Contributing to "Branching Out" by Workers 995

Appendix 25 Number of Contacts between Matched Agents, Unmatched Agents, and Two Groups of Conflicted and Power-Oriented Youths throughout Youth Authority Career 999

Appendix 26 Rate of Offending during Parole for Specified Youth Types 1001

Appendix 27 Rate of Offending during Post-Discharge and during Parole Plus Post-Discharge Periods, for Specified Youth Types 1006

Appendix 28 Five Groups of Status 1 Youths 1009

Appendix 29 Comparisons on Background Characteristics of Selected Youth Groupings, for Phase 3 Males in Parole Follow-Up Analysis 1012

Appendix 30 Number of Arrests per 1,000 Months at Risk during a Four-Year Post-Discharge Follow-Up, for Phase 3 Males 1014

Appendix 31 Approaches Used to Identify CTP's Key Factors 1015

Appendix 32 I-Level Diagnosis and Ethnicity Issues 1021

Appendix 33 Basic Features of Classification for Treatment: An Overview 1036

Appendix 34 Offense-Centered Justice, Differential Sentencing/Assignment, and Strategy 2 1041

Appendix 35 Relationships between Classification Systems and Intervention-Centered Factors 1044

Appendix 36 Issues Relating to Privately Operated CTP Programs 1046

Appendix 37 Factors Responsible for Discrepancies between Suspension Documents and Rapsheets 1051

Appendix 38 Factors and Weights Used in Computation of Base Expectancy Scores 1055

Appendix 39 Paroled-Out-of-Area Youths and Non-Interviewed Controls 1057

Appendix 40 Information Bases for Descriptions and Concepts Relating to Precommitment Years and to Selected Developments among Nonoffenders 1062

Appendix 41 Technical Details Concerning Three-Level Series, and Predictability of Illegal Behavior 1066

Appendix 42 The A/R Cycle, Long-Standing Difficulties, and Motivation 1071

Appendix 43 Skill Deficits and Experiential versus Genetic Factors 1083

Appendix 44 Factors Bearing on the Crystallization of the Illegal-Behavior Pattern 1086

Appendix 45 Structural Factors and Their Relationship to Emotional/Dynamic Factors 1096

Appendix 46 Common Contributors to Recidivism in Selected Types of Offenders 1102

Appendix 47 Elements Used in Seven Programs that Focused on Various Targets 1110

Appendix 48 General Guidelines and Specific Information in Intervention Planning 1112

Appendix 49 Further Discussion and Notes to Chapter 22 1118.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1133-1173).

ISBN:

0815321228

OCLC:

43708507