Juvenile Aftercare Chapter 11

Flashcards related to juvenile aftercare.

What is aftercare?

Iterative services that prepare out-of-home placed juveniles for reentry into the community by establishing collaborative arrangements with the community to ensure the delivery of prescribed services and supervision.

What are the primary objectives of juvenile aftercare?

Release residents from confinement at the most favorable time for community adjustment, prepare youths for their successful reintegration into the community, and reduce the crimes and violent acts committed by released juveniles.

In the majority of states, who has the authority for making the decision on juvenile releases?

With the executive branch of state governments.

What is the controversy regarding who should make the aftercare decision?

Institutional staff members are prone to overreact to residents’ inability to get along in the institution, and independent agencies and boards are too far removed from institutions to know what is going on within them.

What is the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R)?

A quantitative survey of offender attributes and their situations relevant to level of supervision and treatment decisions.

What scales does the LSI-R assess?

Criminal History, Education/Employment, Financial, Family/Marital, Accommodation, Leisure/Recreation, Companions, Alcohol/Drug Problems, Emotional/Personal, and Attitudes/Orientation.

What are the characteristics of youths returning to the community?

Mostly male, minority, and nonviolent offenders. About half live in single-parent families, most have not completed eighth grade, and two-thirds indicate regular drug use.

What populations of juveniles can be targeted in terms of Intensive Aftercare Supervision (IAS)?

All parolees, medium- to low-risk parolees, and high-risk parolees.

What characteristics do successful treatment approaches for aftercare offenders appear to have in common?

They target specific dynamic and criminogenic characteristics, implement a plan strictly adhered to by trained personnel, require frequent contact between staff and offenders, use cognitive and behavioral treatments, and target offenders with the highest risk of recidivism.

What are some types of juvenile reentry programs?

Therapeutic communities, mentoring, case management, cognitive behavioral treatment, and reentry courts.

What are the downsides of the current reentry process?

Fragmentation and lack of coordination, little emphasis on prerelease programs, and not many juveniles are provided the opportunity to work in the community before their release.

Name the six intertwined phases included in the Intensive Aftercare Program (IAP) model.

Assessment, case planning, institutional treatment, prerelease, transition, and community reintegration.

What are some reasons for the failure of aftercare?

Organizational factors, lack of support systems in the community, and personal traits of youths themselves.

Why are aftercare officers looked on even more often as law enforcement figures?

Aftercare officers can return offenders to institutional confinement.

What do the youths placed on aftercare require from officers?

Supportive counseling, delivery of certain services, and supervision.

What is the revocation of aftercare?

The early termination of a youth’s aftercare program, which usually takes place after one or more program violations.

What are the four basic areas in which the need for cooperation is evident according to interstate compacts?

Cooperative supervision of delinquent juveniles on probation or parole, the return of delinquent juveniles who have escaped or absconded, the return of nondelinquent juveniles who have run away from home, and additional measures for the protection of juveniles and of the public.

What reforms and changes are recommended to improve the effectiveness of aftercare services?

Community-based aftercare is one part of a reintegrative corrections continuum, aftercare is frequently funded and staffed at levels far below what is required, intensive aftercare requires close attention to determine which offenders are in need of intervention, and a reduction in caseload size and intensification of level of contacts are widely accepted operational principles.