65-943 71 7 Figure 1 Trends in Release-to-Jail, or Booking-into-Jail-afterRelease, for Five Community Treatment Center Release Cohorts Dec 66 Jun 67 Dec 67 Jun 68 Figure 2. Incidence of Jail Bookings, 30-Day Sentences, and Other Dispositions over Time: 18-Month Cohort, Community Treatment Center Releasees This point is an exact 31.1%. The configuration of the curve to this point is assumed. -13 The 18-month cohort, which had the largest number of releasees, was examined not only for booking rate but also for other indices of performance such as "booked and dismissed by court," booked, fined and dismissed," and "booked and sentenced for 30 days or more." Of the 58 young men in the 18-month cohort, 55.1 percent had been booked into the D. C. Jail and 43.1 percent had been sentenced for 30 days or more. At the time of the follow-up, 31.1 percent of those 58 offenders were serving sentences of days or more. Although there is no wholly satisfactory base against which the performance of the CTC-Y releasees can be compared, it may be observed that the 15-month cohort of California Youth Authority criminal-court case parolees shows a "failure" rate of 32% to 40% during the years 1960 to 1966. These are revocations or discharges for violations committed within 15 months of parole exposure. This failure rate appears to be similar to the 15-month "booked and sentenced" rate of the CTC-Y releasees in the present study. In view of the characteristics of the CTC-Y population and the social conditions into which the population is released to parole, it would appear that the CTC-Y releasees are performing remarkably well on parole. However, the correction of youthful offenders is an expensive process, and it is imperative in the present era to seek to improve correctional procedures. The present report makes some recommendations in that direction. Publication Stuart Adams, Wanda S. Heaton, Dimitri Monos, Margaret Upchurch, Parole Performance Trends Among Community Treatment Center Releasees, pp. 25, September 1968 8) PERFORMANCE TRENDS AMONG YOUTH CENTER PAROLEES Purpose and Method During July 1968 a group of 148 releasees from the -14 Youth Center was followed up through the records Findings Of the 148 releasees, 17 or 12% had been released to detainers and 58 or 39% had been booked into the D. C. Jail at the time of the follow-up in July 1968; 17% of the releasees had been booked more than one time during the follow-up period. When the group of releasees was broken down into exposure-time subgroups or cohorts, the highest detained-or-booked rate (62%) was shown by the 18-month cohort. The lowest rate (15%) was shown by the 6-month cohort. The booking curves of the five cohorts showed a tendency to rise over time, with the rise being the most pronounced in the youngest cohort. The older cohorts disclosed a definite tendency toward leveling off, apparently indicating a decrease of criminal activity among the remaining individuals in the cohort. The largest cohort, the 30-months-exposure group, was examined in detail to learn what dispositions had occurred in the cohort. Of the 37 releasees in this cohort, 51% had been paroled to detainers or booked into the D. C. Jail, 43% had been sentenced for 30 days or more, and 19% were still incarcerated at the time of the follow-up. The failure rate in the 30-month cohort, defined as percentage sentenced to 30-days-or-more incarceration, appeared to be relatively low in comparison with failure rates in two other releasee groups. At 15 months after release, the Youth Center releasees had a failure rate of about 24%. Corresponding rates for the D. C. Community Treatment Center wards and California Youth Authority |