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Article: Juvenile Court probation supervised youths: at risk in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
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- Corrections Compendium
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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More than 2 million juvenile court cases are processed each year in the United States. Delinquency accounts for 61 percent, victims of abuse/neglect account for 19 percent, and status offenses account for 16 percent of the total (Martin, 2005; Roberts, 2004; Snyder, 2004; U.S. Department of Justice, 2004). (1) Thus, more than 1.2 million youths are adjudicated delinquent and subsequently monitored by the juvenile justice system each year. (2) Of these adjudicated delinquent youths, 679,449 were court ordered for probation supervision in 2003, a 44 percent increase since 1990 (McNeese and Jackson, in Roberts, 2004).
For many years, community release probation and ...