Juvenile justice practitioners add value to communities.

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Juvenile justice practitioners add value to communities.

Community corrections agencies are often considered to include only adult probation and parole departments and community-based residential programs, such as halfway houses, for adult offenders. Often, community corrections professionals minimize the impact that juvenile probation and parole practitioners can make in prevention, accountability and outcomes in community corrections. Because juvenile probation and parole departments do not supervise as many offenders as their adult counterparts, the impact they have on the community is overlooked. The success of jurisdictions supervising juvenile offenders directly impacts correctional agencies serving adult offenders. Within community corrections agencies serving juveniles, the re-engineering of current practices that has taken place may be helpful to community corrections agencies serving both juvenile and adult offenders. Some of the successes jurisdictions have had with juvenile offenders w...

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