Managing risky behavior reduces future incarceration among aggressive juvenile offenders

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Clinically aggressive juvenile offenders on probation in Cook County, Illinois, who participated in a two-week intervention program focusing on reducing risky behavior were four times less likely to be incarcerated in the 12 months after the intervention than their peers who participated in an information-based health promotion program.

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