Youth should be held accountable for their actions. However, there are many ways to teach youth to respect rules that do not involve incarceration and removal from family, school, and the community … A strong system of “graduated responses” - combining sanctions for violations and incentives for continued progress - can significantly reduce unnecessary incarceration, reduce racial and ethnic disparities, and improve successful probation completion rates and other outcomes for youth under supervision. This Toolkit is designed to help jurisdictions create an effective graduated response system or improve an existing system (p. 4).
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