Risk Classification Systems and the Provision of Juvenile Aftercare
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Crime & Delinquency
- Vol. 39 (1) , 90-105
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128793039001006
Abstract
Juvenile aftercare decision-making systems that classify parolees according to perceived risk and needs are designed to render uniform the treatment of these individuals by juvenile parole officials. This article analyzes a system implemented by Arizona to determine if the intensity of supervision received by parolees differs as a function of classification score. Supervision of a random sample of 280 parolees was tracked for 90 days. The analysis indicates that intensity of supervision does not differ based on the classification score, suggesting that the instrument does not control the decision making of the street-level bureaucrats, the parole officers.Keywords
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