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Developing a Juvenile Risk Assessment Instrument for Iowa State Evaluation Capacity Building, 1994-1995

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Principal Investigator(s): Huff, David; Prell, Lettie

Summary: This study was undertaken to address Iowa's inability to classify juveniles at risk of recidivism uniformly across the state by creating and testing a proposed risk assessment instrument. It was anticipated that the risk assessment instrument would be useful in not only providing the juvenile court officers with a tool to appropriately assess the risk of recidivism, but also in providing "common ground" to treatment staff and other relevant officials to determine whether certain i... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02632.v1

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