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Evaluation of Waiver Effects in Maryland, 1998-2000

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Principal Investigator(s): Smith, Cindy J.; Craig, Kimberly S.; Brodus, Sallie M.; Kimmelman, Cynthea

Summary: The purpose of this research was to assist policymakers in determining if the targeted youths affected by the waiver laws passed by the Maryland legislature in 1994 and 1998 were being processed as intended. The waiver laws were enacted to ensure that a youth who was unwilling to comply with treatment and/or committed a serious offense would have a serious consequence to his/her action and, therefore, would be processed in the adult system. As a result of the legislation, four pathways of... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04077.v1

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