Date of Award
8-2010
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Criminal Justice: M.S.
Department
Criminal Justice
College
School of Public Affairs
First Advisor
F. Barry Schreiber
Third Advisor
Timothy Baker
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
Recidivism, Juvenile, Length of Recidivism, Criminal Justice, Incarceration
Abstract
How to handle juvenile offenders has been an issue that goes back and forth from rehabilitation to holding juveniles accountable with incarceration. Recidivism or re-offending rates have been studied to get a better picture into how effective treatment interventions are. This pilot study seeks to determine if juveniles incarcerated in Elmore Academy, a private correctional residential treatment facility, for shorter lengths of time (1-3 months) recidivated at higher rates than their peers who were incarcerated longer (4-9 months). The sample consisted of Ramsey County, Minnesota juvenile males ages 16-18 that were released from Elmore Academy between August 1, 2005 and June 1, 2009. The Chi-Square test of association was used to determine ifthere was a relationship between Length of Stay and 12-month post release recidivism, 24-month post release recidivism, type of offense leading to incarceration, gang association, marijuana use and alcohol use. While many of the comparisons found differences in frequencies, no statistically significant differences were found.
Recommended Citation
Jurkovski, Michelle Lynn, "Juvenile Recidivism Based on Length of Incarceration : A Pilot Study in Elmore, Minnesota" (2010). Culminating Projects in Criminal Justice. 24.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/cjs_etds/24
