Deploying street outreach workers to reduce failure to appear in juvenile court for youth of color: a randomized study

This study is a randomized controlled trial of a failure to appear (FTA) prevention program involving street outreach workers. Over 2 years, 560 youth were randomized to receive street outreach services or no services based on an FTA risk score. The program was found to significantly and modestly re...

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Authors: Cusworth Walker, Sarah (Author) ; Bishop, Asia Sarah (Author) ; Catena, Jovi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Crime & delinquency
Year: 2019, Volume: 65, Issue: 12, Pages: 1740-1762
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Failure to appear
Racial and ethnic disparities
Juvenile justice
Warrant prevention
Randomized control trial
Jugendvollzug
Ethnische Unterschiede