Newsletter Articles | June 30, 1998
CWLA/Sacramento Study Identifies High Risk Juvenile Offenders
OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
Industry News
Having experienced a sharp increase in juvenile crime in the early 1990s, Sacramento County, California sought the help of several agencies and organizations to better identify children who are at the highest risk of committing serious offenses. Working with the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), child welfare authorities, police, community-based organizations, the courts and the district attorney, they combined previously separate and unavailable information in a study conducted between October 1994 and October 1995. The study found . . .