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Models for Change. Resource Center Partnership (Washington DC)

  • Give Adolescents the Time and Skills to Mature, and Most Offenders Will Stop

    "The Pathways to Desistance study is a multi-site, longitudinal study of serious adolescent offenders as they transition from adolescence into earl

  • Programs that Promote Positive Development Can Help Young Offenders Grow Up and Out of Crime

    Issues related to the impact of an adolescent's level of maturity on future offending are discussed.