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We have seen that the treatment of the individual offender within the juvenile justice system may be represented as a series of decisions that occur between the initial police contact through the disposition phase of processing. We have also seen that a number of components are implicit within this decision process:
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The acceptance of certain goals for the justice system
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Assumptions about the way in which various alternative courses of action relate to the goals
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Judgments about the clients and their bearing on these assumptions
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Final decisions among the alternatives
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Hoge, R.D., Andrews, D.A. (1996). Decision Making within Juvenile Justice Systems. In: Assessing the Youthful Offender. Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Library. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9296-6_2
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