YOUTH AUTHORITY'S COMMUNITY TREATMENT PROJECT

• NCJ Number: 16536
• Journal: Federal Probation Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Dated: (MARCH 1974) Pages: 3-13
• Author(s): T PALMER
• Date Published: 1974
• Length: 11 pages
• Corporate Author: Administrative Office of the United States Courts
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

OVERVIEW OF THE CALIFORNIA YOUTH AUTHORITY'S WHO WERE ASSIGNED TO INTENSIVE PAROLE SUPERVISION RATHER THAN INCARCERATION.

Abstract

SINCE 1961 THE CALIFORNIA YOUTH AUTHORITY'S COMMUNITY TREATMENT PROJECT HAS HANDLED SERIOUSLY ACTING-OUT OFFENDERS WHO HAVE BEEN COMMITTED TO THE STATE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM FROM JUVENILE COURTS IN A NUMBER OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES. DR. TED PALMER, THE PROJECT'S PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, REPORTS THAT FOR THE LARGE MAJORITY OF MALES (CLASSIFIED AS 'NEUROTIC') THIS INTENSIVE, RELATIVELY INDIVIDUALIZED PROGRAM HAS RESULTED IN A SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR WHEN COMPARED WITH THE TRADITIONAL CYA PROGRAM OF LENGTHY INSTITUTIONALIZATION FOLLOWED BY NONINTENSIVE PAROLE. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT)