A Study of Juvenile Delinquency Services, The Sixth Judicial District, FY 1996, October 1996

(1996) A Study of Juvenile Delinquency Services, The Sixth Judicial District, FY 1996, October 1996. University of Iowa

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Abstract

Juvenile crime in the Sixth Judicial District continues to increase, but one goal of community-based juvenile court services has been achieved: Out-of-home placements are going down. While the number of referrals in the district went up 16 percent and the number of delinquency petitions increased 38 percent in the past four years, the number of placements in residential treatment were down 38 percent over the past five years. That represents a sea change in juvenile court practice, officials say. The value of community-based services has been recognized by the courts, and juvenile officers have learned to work with those services. In fiscal 1996, the judicial district spent $ 1.06 million on community-based services, including tracking, day treatment programs, life skills programs and school-based tracking services. Youths in the community-based programs were less than 20 percent of all young people referred to the juvenile court system.