RT Article
T1 Matching Services to Criminogenic Needs Following Comprehensive Risk Assessment Implementation in Juvenile Probation
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 45
IS 8
SP 1136
OP 1153
A1 Nelson, Rebecca J.
A2 Vincent, Gina M.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1702016277
AB One emphasis of juvenile justice reform has been implementation of risk assessment instruments to improve case planning. This study examined the ability of juvenile probation departments to apply the risk-needs-responsivity (RNR) framework into case planning following a comprehensive implementation protocol. Data were collected on 385 adolescent offenders across three probation departments following implementation of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk for Youth (SAVRY) and an RNR-related case planning policy. As expected, as risk levels of youth increased, probation departments assigned more services and addressed more criminogenic need areas in their case plans. Most case plans (86%) adhered to the policy to limit the number of needs addressed at one time. The quality of service-to-need matching varied by criminogenic need area, risk level, and site. Implications to juvenile courts’ and probation officers’ case planning and the challenges of research on service-to-need matching are discussed.
K1 Juvenile probation
K1 Criminogenic needs
K1 Service-to-need matching
K1 SAVRY
K1 Risk-needs-responsivity
K1 RNR
DO 10.1177/0093854818780923