| | Highlights From Pathways to Desistance: A Longitudinal Study of Serious Adolescent Offenders | | (NCJ 230971) March 2011 | | Fact Sheet, 4 page(s) | | Mulvey, E.P. | | | | This fact sheet presents an overview of some major findings from the Pathways to Desistance Study, a project that followed 1,354 serious adolescent offenders for 7 years following their convictions. The primary findings of the study to date deal with the decrease in self-reported offending over time by most serious adolescent offenders, the relative inefficacy of longer juvenile incarcerations in decreasing recidivism, the effectiveness of community-based supervision as a component of aftercare for incarcerated youth, and the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment in reducing both substance use and offending by serious adolescent offenders. | |
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