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Juvenile Justice News
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Surveying youths in custody.
The Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP) offers a unique perspective on youths in custody. The study is one component of an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention program that collects information on this population. Designed and conducted by Westat, one of the world's largest scientific survey organizations, the first SYRP is the only national survey to gather data directly from the youths in juvenile justice placement. Youths answered questions about a broad range of subjects. This article summarizes findings on a few of the topics SYRP covered.
Method. SYRP project staff administered interviews to a sample of more than 7,000 offender youths between ages 10 and 20 in more than 200 facilities. The sample...See the full content of this document
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