Effective Intervention for Serious Juvenile Offenders

By Mark Lipsey, David B. Wilson, Lynn Cothern. 2000

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The Bulletin describes the intervention programs that showed the strongest, most consistent impact on recidivism for serious juvenile offenders. The most effective interventions were interpersonal skills training, individual counseling, and behavioral programs for noninstitutionalized offenders, and interpersonal skills training and community-based, family-type group homes for institutionalized offenders.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effects of young offender treatment programs in Europe (2013, background): “For example, the tendency of larger effects of programs in the community as opposed to those conducted in secure institutions is in accordance with North American research (e.g., Lipsey and Cullen 2007; Lipsey and Wilson 1998).”
Are Violent Delinquents Worth Treating? A Cost–Benefit Analysis (2006, background): “Reviews of the effectiveness of treatment for juvenile delinquents often cite the problem of determining the effect of treatment in studies that lack random assignment (Lipsey, Wilson, and Cothern 2000; Tate, Rippucci, and Mulvey 1995).”
Issues in Disseminating and Replicating Effective Prevention Programs (2004, background): “A frequent adaptation to the Life Skills Training Program by teachers was the addition of curriculum involving the use of scare tactics—an approach that we know does not work and that sometimes has negative effects (Lipsey and Wilson, 1998).”
Rehabilitation: Beyond Nothing Works (2013, background): “Lipsey found that the most effective interventions used modalities that were clearly rehabilitation-oriented, including counseling, interpersonal skills, cognitive-behavioral, and multi-model (Lipsey and Wilson 1998; Lipsey, Wilson, and Cothern 2000; see also Lipsey, Chapman, and Landenberger 2001).”