Teen Courts: A Focus on Research and Program Evaluation

Jeffrey A. Butts authored a bulletin examining several teen court evaluations. The bulletin discusses the increasing popularity of teen courts as a response to serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders. It cautions that empirical data is lacking to fully evaluate the effectiveness of this peer-centered intervention.

Use Cases

• Literature review on teen court program evaluations based on the described bulletin content.
• Analysis of the perceived effectiveness of peer-centered juvenile justice interventions based on anecdotal reports mentioned.
• Identifying gaps in empirical data for juvenile justice program evaluation as highlighted in the description.

Strengths

• Authored by a named researcher, Jeffrey A. Butts.
• Focuses on a specific, defined intervention in juvenile justice.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Jeffrey A. Butts

Collection Method

Examination of several teen court evaluations, as described.