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Perceptions of Appropriate Services for Juvenile Offenders

University of Pittsburgh

N. DICKON REPPUCCI

University of Virginia

This study provides a descriptive view of juvenile justice gatekeepers' perceptions of appropriate services for juvenile offenders. These personnel do not appear to have a high regard for alternative services without a therapeutic orientation. As these gatekeepers are lynchpins of both the referral process and the establishment of alternative services in juvenile justice, this predilection is important to note as a factor that may motivate accommodations by these personnel to changes in juvenile justice policy. Professionals in this system seem most likely to believe in therapeutic treatment for juvenile offenders, and this fact could go further than the intents of any policy mandates toward determining the actual practice of juvenile justice.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 11, No. 4, 401-422 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854884011004003


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