NCJ Number
190483
Journal
Crime & Delinquency Volume: 47 Issue: 4 Dated: October 2001 Pages: 573-609
Date Published
October 2001
Length
37 pages
Annotation
This study evaluated a school-based boot camp.
Abstract
In the past few years, several dramatic incidents have spurred efforts to control violence and prevent crime in schools. Although it has yet to become a matter of much public discussion, what is particularly noteworthy about many of these efforts is the increased collaboration of criminal and juvenile justice agencies with schools in their capacity as formal agents of control. The study evaluated one program that embodied this type of collaboration -- Specialized Treatment and Rehabilitation (STAR). STAR is an innovative juvenile boot camp program in a public school setting that is operated through the combined efforts of the school, the juvenile court, and the juvenile probation department. Although the program has had a relatively minor impact on recidivism, parents, teachers, and STAR participants have quite favorable impressions of the program. The move to control the school environment with justice system personnel is not the majority response, but it is a direction that schools are beginning to embrace. The study claimed that this evaluation of STAR was a starting point for evaluating school-based programs, more specifically, justice-based programming in the public school system. Tables, appendixes, notes, references