The problems facing today's American youth are more varied than they have been in the past, and the programs which deal with them to rehabilitate them or to detain them need to be as varied in their approach as the problems are. This special issue includes five feature articles on juvenile offender programs and their effectiveness. The issue also reviews Ohio's struggle to improve juvenile justice, an OJJDP and private research firm venture to study juvenile detention, an example of an Arkansas program linking inmates and local schools, AIDS evaluation, and a look into correctional dentistry. The feature articles range from a marine program to help youths, a Kansas center to help sexually abused offenders, an experimental program to offer alternatives, a program in Indiana on juvenile detention, and a national project which provides resources for juvenile probation officers.