NCJ Number
190660
Date Published
2001
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This section of the "Strategic Planning Master Notebook" for jurisdictional teams provides a notetaking guide on juvenile detention and associated issues as well as a paper on "Juvenile Detention as Process and Place."
Abstract
The note-taking guide provides an outline of issues related to the characteristics of youth in secure detention, the consequences of unnecessary secure detention for the juvenile justice system, the core purposes of secure detention, the definition of detention, detention as process, detention as place, a "balanced approach, and vision/mission. The note-taking guide also outlines issues in the following areas: fundamental principles in creating an interagency group, the composition of policy-level stakeholders, and the work group agenda. The paper on "Juvenile Detention as Process and Place" first defines juvenile detention to include the following characteristics: temporary custody, safe custody, restricted environment, community protection, pending legal action, helpful services, and clinical observation and assessment. This is followed by a review of the history of confusion of function that has long plagued juvenile detention. The authors advise that this confusion linked to contradictory definitions of detention is the central problem for juvenile detention administrators. Conflicts between the policies of preventive detention and therapeutic detention are discussed, followed by a presentation of the authors' argument that preventive detention and therapeutic detention are not mutually exclusive. Next, detention as place (physical structure of detention) and process (experience) and discussed. Other issues of juvenile detention discussed are graduated sanctions and continuum of care. A table shows a sample continuum of care. 46 references