Statewide Responses to a Proposed Realignment of Juvenile Corrections in Arizona

• NCJ Number: 249300
• Journal: Criminal Justice Review Volume: Online First Dated: September 2015
• Author(s): Melanie Taylor; Scott Decker; Charles Katz
• Date Published: September 2015
• Length: 0 pages
• Grant Number(s): 2010-JB-FX-0014
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical); Report (Study/Research); Report (Grant Sponsored); Legislation/Policy Analysis; Case Study
• Award: For the Kids or for the Bottom Line?: A Case Study of the Proposed Closing the Department of Juvenile Corrections in Arizona

Annotation

This article reports on a case study that examined proposed solutions and opinions of various stakeholders in juvenile justice following a 2010 announcement that the State Department of Juvenile Corrections would be closed in Arizona.

Abstract

As States face shrinking budgets, new options for correctional supervision are being sought. One solution has been to shift the responsibility for custody from the State to county level through a process of realignment. The findings of the survey of juvenile justice stakeholders in Arizona show that the manner in which such a realignment was proposed would have been a difficult model to adopt, but that a well-planned and adequately funded reform would benefit juveniles and counties across Arizona. (Publisher abstract modified)