RT Article
T1 Does treatment quality matter?: multilevel examination of the effects of intervention quality on recidivism of adolescents completing long‐term juvenile justice residential placement
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 17
IS 1
SP 147
OP 180
A1 Baglivio, Michael T.
A2 Wolff, Kevin T.
A2 Jackowski, Katherine
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1584505745
AB The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has implemented a process to evaluate the treatment quality of interventions provided statewide in all long‐term residential programs. In the current study, we examine the predictive validity of this treatment quality component in the prediction of recidivism of youth (N = 2,397) who completed juvenile justice residential programs from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. We use hierarchical linear modeling to assess the effects of treatment quality (as youth are nested within programs), controlling for demographic and criminal history factors. The results indicate that higher average treatment quality scores of interventions received within a residential program decreased the likelihood of subsequent arrest, conviction, and reincarceration, whereas the highest treatment quality score of any specific intervention provided within the program decreased the odds of reincarceration only.
K1 Treatment integrity
K1 Fidelity
K1 Program evaluation
K1 Juvenile recidivism
K1 Präventionsprogramme
K1 Rückfälligkeit Jugendlicher
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12338