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Can Rehabilitative Programs Reduce The Recidivism Of Juvenile Offenders?, Tyneshia Renee Thompson Ms.
Can Rehabilitative Programs Reduce The Recidivism Of Juvenile Offenders?, Tyneshia Renee Thompson Ms.
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Since the founding of the juvenile justice system, minimal attention or research effort has been contributed to the understanding of factors affecting the rates of juvenile arrests, detainment, and return to community. Over time, studies have seen juvenile recidivism rise and fall. Counties and states do not keep solid empirical data on recidivism because minors are constantly reentering juvenile detention centers. States and counties only keep compacted empirical data on arrest of minors. It makes it hard for counties and states to differentiate who has been arrested multiply times.
The following study investigates the juvenile justice and questions the rehabilitative …