This case is accompany by a Video Brief that can be shown in class or contained in a digital coursepack. Teachers should consider the time of making the video accessible to students, as it may reveal vital case details. In the early 1970s, the Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) took its first steps toward radically altering the way it dealt with youthful offenders remanded to its custody. For years, like most states, it had incarcerated juveniles convicted of felony or misdemeanor violations in large quasi-penal facilities called "training schools." Instead, DYS began establishing smaller "cottage-style" residential plans that emphasized rehabilitation over punishment and used a therapeutic approach to its troubled youthful charges. Over the subsequent three decades, DYS expanded this approach to include its entire juvenile offender population. By the mid-2000s, the "Missouri model," as it became recognized, was possibly the most respected-and, many considered, most effective-juvenile corrections system in the US.
The case also provides an overview of Missouri's impressively low recidivism amounts and a simple discussion of the complexities of comparing such amounts among states. It concludes with a discussion of the challenges the Missouri DYS has confronted in keeping up its highly regarded, but demanding, strategy over many years. The case can be used in courses on child welfare policy and criminal justice.
Taking a Therapeutic Approach to Juvenile Offenders The Missouri Model case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: May 14, 2009 PRODUCT #: HKS104-HCB-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about LEADERSHIP & MANAGING PEOPLE
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