State run public guardianship programs are legally mandated to provide custodial care for persons deemed incapacitated by the courts. Historically, the majority of state wards were elderly women residing in skilled nursing facilities. Today, those demographics are rapidly changing. This new incapacitated cohort has become less institutionalized, with a rising number of persons who have entered the program with criminal records and who continue to commit crimes. This exploratory study focuses on incapacitated persons (IP) with criminal behaviors in order to seek what intervention(s) might reduce their criminal activity. Relying on routine activity theory, differing levels of supervision were compared to those persons institutionalized 24 hours per day. The results of the study indicated that as levels of residential supervision decrease, criminal activities significantly increase. This study can assist administrators of public guardianship programs better understanding the supervisory needs of their incapacitated citizens as well as improve safety precautions for their respective communities.

Depuis la décentralisation, les prérogatives départementales en matière d’adoption n’ont fait que se renforcer. Cette collectivité territoriale intervient à tous les niveaux de l’adoption, que ce soit du côté de la famille biologique de l’enfant, des familles adoptives, ou encore des enfants adoptables ou adoptés. Le Département est ainsi devenu un acteur incontournable de l’adoption. En raison des nouvelles problématiques liées à la spécificité de la filiation adoptive, ce rôle est encore appelé à se développer. Si, à l’occasion de certaines des attributions qui lui sont confiées, le Département a lapossibilité de jouer pleinement son rôle, il semble qu’à l’inverse d’autres fonctions aient perdu de leur importance en raison des pouvoirs auxquels la collectivité départementale est confrontée. La présente étude a pour objet de préciser le véritable rôle du Département dans l’adoption, que son intervention se situe dans le processus adoptif ou auprès des enfants adoptables ou adoptés. / Since decentralisation, departmental prerogatives with regard to adoption have been reinforced. This local authority intervenes at all levels of the adoption process, be it from the side of the biological parents, adoptive families, or adoptable or adopted children. In this way the department became a key player in adoption. Due to emerging issues connected to thespecifics of adoptive filiations, this role is to grow and expand.If, with some of the duties assigned to it, the Department has had the opportunity to play its full role, it seems that the reverse has happened with some other of its functions having losttheir importance due to the powers which the departmental community faces. The present study was to clarify the true role of the Department in adoption, whether its intervention lies in the adoption process or around adoptable or adopted children