In recent years such innovative programs as arbitration, restitution, diversion, victim assistance and compensation have exploded throughout the United States. To date diversion has been the program model with the greates degree of proliferation. / The State of Florida, for example, initiated the Juvenile Alternative Services Project (JASP) in three pilot districts in 1979. The pilot project was aimed at diverting juvenile offenders from judicial processing thereby limiting system penetration. It was anticipated that assignment to community service alternatives would result in a more effective juvenile correction system and fewer subsequent law violations. / Evaluation of diversion programs is most often addressed by one of two approaches: fixed-goal or unintended outcome. Fixed-goal assesses the realization of stated goals; unintended outcome seeks to identify collateral effects of diversion programs. Evaluations of diversion programs, therefore, characteristically focus on determining negative or positive results. What a program does or does not do, and for whom, is absent from current diversion evaluation practice. / The purpose of this study is to implement the multi-goal approach as a diversion program evaluation technique. The conceptual approach of this study is retrospective-empirical analysis; it utilizes data from the JASP evaluation for the purpose of demonstrating the additional program information provided by the multi-goal approach. This study provides the first evidence of the feasibility and utility of the multi-goal approach and provides a starting point for evaluators who choose to try the multi-goal evaluation technique. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, Section: A, page: 1878. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75343 |
| Contributors | STANFORD, ROSE MARY., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 302 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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