NCJ Number
99908
Date Published
1985
Length
35 pages
Annotation
This report presents findings and recommendations from an Oregon task force established in 1983 to study the feasibility of further reducing juvenile training school populations.
Abstract
The task force examined policies, priorities, and standards for the State's delivery of services to youth. The task force found no clear policies for the delivery of such services. It recommends the establishment of an ad hoc transition team to develop State guidelines for local planning for such services. The task force also reviewed the roles, responsibilities, resource allocation formulas, and systemic relationships of private and public agencies providing services to youth at the State and local levels. Finding fragmentation in the State's current juvenile justice system, the task force recommends redefining major agency roles and responsibilities. Interagency agreements involving youth agencies were also critiqued. To facilitate the establishment and implementation of interagency agreements, the task force recommends broader representation on local juvenile services commissions. The task force proposes policy guidelines relating to the institutionalization of juveniles versus the provision of community juvenile services. The development of training school admission criteria is recommended. The report presents values and principles to guide Oregon's juvenile corrections system. The appendixes contain a summary of juvenile justice issues, a list of current juvenile corrections services, training school commitment data (1978-84), and data on close custody populations (1978-84).