Evaluation of the National Demonstration of Boot Camps for Juvenile Offenders

• NCJ Number: 152223
• Author(s): R Cronin
• Date Published: Unknown
• Length: 7 pages
• Corporate Author: American Institutes for Research
• Sale Source: American Institutes for Research
• Publication Type: Program/Project Evaluation
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on Evaluating Crime and Drug Control Initiatives, Washington, DC, June 29, 1993.

Annotation

This report compared data from three juvenile boot camp programs, operating in Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; and Mobile, Alabama, under the auspices of State or local county juvenile authorities and local agencies involved in juvenile justice.

Abstract

All three camps accepted male juvenile offenders, between the general ages of 13 and 18, who had not committed serious or violent offenses, had no medical or serious mental health problems, did not pose an escape risk, and were not in need of drug or alcohol treatment. All the boot camps featured a 3-month period stressing military structure and discipline and an intensive educational curriculum. During the 9-month aftercare phase, juvenile offenders received supervision and services located at community agencies, counseling, educational assistance, and various types of special programming. Preliminary data showed that the rates of program completion ranged from 70.5 percent in Mobile to 89.7 percent in Cuyahoga; overall attrition rates, including aftercare participation statistics, ranged from 41 percent to 50 percent. 7 tables