NCJ Number
122433
Journal
Criminal Justice and Behavior Volume: 17 Issue: 1 Dated: (March 1990) Pages: 134-142
Date Published
1990
Length
9 pages
Annotation
A meta-analysis of 46 studies of intervention programs for juvenile delinquents revealed a significant difference between programs that included a cognitive component and those that did not.
Abstract
Cognitive programs were more than twice as effective as noncognitive programs. These results are consistent with previous qualitative analyses and provide support for a cognitive model of offender rehabilitation. 1 table, 24 references. (Publisher abstract)