The Community Corrections Partnership: Examining the Long-Term Effects of Youth Participation in an Afrocentric Diversion Program

Using Afrocentric techniques has recently emerged as a promising way of delivering services to African Americans. Briefly, a number of authors have argued that African Americans are better served, especially by substance abuse services, when service delivery utilizes Afrocentric techniques. This stu...

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Published in:Crime and delinquency 2001-10, Vol.47 (4), p.558-572
Main Authors: King, William R., Holmes, Stephen T., Henderson, Martha L., Latessa, Edward J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African-Americans
Afrocentrism
Black American people
Black people
Blacks
Case studies
Community-based corrections
Correction (penology)
Crime
Criminology
Delinquency
Delinquency Prevention
Delivery Systems
Diversion programs
Diversion schemes
Juvenile delinquents
Juvenile Offenders
Law enforcement
Males
Offenders
Ohio
Partnerships
Program Evaluation
Public services
Treatment Outcomes
Treatment Programs
U.S.A
United States
Young offenders
Youth
Youth and law
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Summary:Using Afrocentric techniques has recently emerged as a promising way of delivering services to African Americans. Briefly, a number of authors have argued that African Americans are better served, especially by substance abuse services, when service delivery utilizes Afrocentric techniques. This study reports an evaluation of an Afrocentric treatment program for male, juvenile, felony offenders in one city. The evaluation uses a two-group, quasi-experimental design to compare the 281 African American youths in the Afrocentric treatment program (called the Community Corrections Partnership) with a comparison group of 140 probation youths. Overall, the youths assigned to the Afrocentric treatment program performed slightly better than the probationers on 4 out of 15 measures of juvenile and adult criminality.
ISSN:0011-1287
1552-387X
DOI:10.1177/0011128701047004004