Family-based reintegration [[electronic resource] ] : effective interventions for juveniles on parole / / Marcy K. Rowland

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456692003321
• Autore: Rowland Marcy K. <1979->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: El Paso [Tex.], : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009
• ISBN: 1-59332-548-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (181 p.)
• Collana: Criminal justice : recent scholarship
• Disciplina: 364.6/20830973
• Soggetti: Juvenile delinquents - United States; Parole - United States; Families - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Juveniles in the justice system -- Evaluating the effectiveness of a family-based intervention -- Results -- Implications for public policy.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 2002, a family-based approach to parole (Functional Family Parole), was implemented across the state of Washington. Rowland compares the behavioral and family functioning outcomes of youth who received the intervention with a matched control group of youth who received traditional parole. She finds that, without consideration of model adherence, the FFP and control groups did not differ in overall recidivism. However, when implemented with high model adherence, FFP achieved a 14.6% reduction in felony recidivism compared to traditional parole. As adherence to the FFP model increases, there