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39 Crime & Delinquency 3 (1993)

handle is hein.journals/cadq39 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction Barry Krisberg This special issue of Crime & Delinquency contains a broad range of new research findings on juvenile justice. Each of these articles offers fascinating new data that can generate new policy discussions. The richness of this research area is indicative of the ongoing quest to improve the nation's response to wayward youths. As this decade evolves, the juvenile court will approach its centennial celebration. Few observers believe that the juvenile court of the 21st century will resemble the traditional parens patriae model that dominated the court's history. Further, juvenile justice reform is likely to become a major societal concern if rates of juvenile violent crime continue to rise. The first article by Ira Schwartz and his colleagues at the University of Michigan offers fascinating new insights into the demographics of public attitudes toward juvenile justice. Their national survey suggests that the majority of the public continues to support a treatment and rehabilitative approach to delinquency. However, support for a more punitive response to youth crime seems to be growing among older Americans, minorities, and persons with greatest fear of personal victimization. McGarrell reports on extensive analysis of racial disparity in the process- ing of youngsters through the juvenile courts. He relies on the extensive data files of the National Juvenile Court Data Archives. The findings suggest that racial disparity is worsening and that this problem varies widely across jurisdictions, suggesting the need for more comparative analyses. The next two articles by Dale and Sanniti and Wiebush report on very promising reform efforts. Dale and Sanniti provide a cogent description of the very successful reform ofjuvenile detention practices in Broward County, Florida. They illustrate effective methods of combining litigation and medi- ation strategies to drastically reduce the secure detention population. Wiebush describes his research on an innovative intensive supervision pro- gram (ISP) for serious juvenile offenders. He finds that ISP does not reduce BARRY KRISBERG: President, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, San Francisco. CRIME & DELINQUENCY, Vol. 39 No. 1, January 1993 3-4 O 1993 Sage Publications, Inc. 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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