NCJ Number
100137
Date Published
1986
Length
0 pages
Annotation
A former juvenile judge currently affiliated with the National Center for State Courts discusses five key aspects of managing restitution programs: personnel, job sites, financial accounting, relations with the juvenile justice system, and program information.
Abstract
An overview of personnel management issues considers selection, job descriptions, performance evaluations, caseloads, staff training, supervision, and volunteers. Criteria that govern job sites selection for community service and wage-paying individual jobs are detailed, with attention to the importance of interested supervisors and good work experience. The speaker emphasizes the need to build-in opportunities for success by considering transportation and youths' skills. Visits to the job site and promoting subsidized jobs in the public sector are examined. A review of financial management concerns addresses forms of payment (checks versus money order), who receives payments in the agency, disbursement, and administrative charges imposed on offenders. A sample disbursement policy is presented. In discussing ways to maintain good relations with the justice system, the speaker describes items that a policy and procedures manual should cover, offense record disclosure to employers, enforcement policies, and reports to the court. Formats for organizing collection, caseload, victim, and recidivism data to reveal program strengths and shortcoming are presented.