Re: boot camps

[Frank Vandervort <vort@xxxxxxxxx>]

An article in the NY Times from Sunday, December 19, 1999, cites a study by 
the Koch Crime Institute in Topeka, Kansas, that found recidivism rates of 
from 64 % to 75% for bootcamps and 63% to 71% for "traditional detention 
centers". Here is a link to Koch's web site: www.kci.org   Additionally, in 
his book Parents Under Siege James Garbarino indicates that they are not. 
He also discusses this issue in Lost Boys.

In December 1999 the Baltimore Sun ran a series of articles detailing 
abuses in Maryland's bootcamp program (at least two staff members were 
eventually charged with criminal child abuse as a result of their 
maltreatment of kids in the programs)

At 09:56 AM 10/29/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>Is there any evidence that juvenile boot camps are an
>effective treatment approach?
>
>Bill
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