Accomplishments in Juvenile Probation in California Over the Last Decade

Susan Turner, Terry Fain

ResearchPublished Jul 5, 2005

Over the past ten years, probation departments across the state of California have undertaken five major initiatives aimed at juvenile offenders and at-risk youths. At the same time, juvenile arrests and incarcerations have fallen, teen pregnancies have dropped, the numbers of youths living below the poverty level has gone down, and high school graduation rates have increased. Although probation initiatives were concomitant with these positive outcomes, we cannot definitively attribute observed statewide trends to them.

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Turner, Susan and Terry Fain, Accomplishments in Juvenile Probation in California Over the Last Decade. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2005. https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR297.html.
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