NCJ Number
84464
Journal
Social Work Volume: 27 Issue: 4 Dated: (July 1982) Pages: 348-353
Date Published
1982
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This study found that States prohibiting institutionalization of status offenders and juvenile delinquents were no more likely to provide high levels of child foster care and protective services under Title XX than States not prohibiting institutionalization.
Abstract
However, States with deinstitutionalization were found to provide significantly more services specifically tailored for status offenders and juvenile delinquents, although these services were primarily for treatment and only secondarily for prevention. Characteristics such as a State's wealth, its urban-rural composition, and whether and when it had reached its ceiling on Title XX expenditures determined its spending for child foster care or protective services more than did the State legislative or administrative policy on status offender deinstitutionalization. Incorporation of Title XX into the social service block grant will bring changes that can be compared with the study data as baseline data. Furthermore, the new funding regulations can give States the opportunity to design and implement community service alternatives to correspond to their legislative status offender deinstitutionalization measures. Data were drawn from the Comprehensive Annual Service Plans for the 50 States for the years 1975-79. Twenty-one reference notes are appended.