WSIPP: Publication

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Full Report	August 2004
Washington's Juvenile Basic Training Camp: Outcome Evaluation Robert Barnoski
The 1994 Washington State Legislature created the juvenile offender basic training camp located in Connell, Franklin County. The Department of Social and Health Services’ Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration designed and implemented the Basic Training Camp (BTC) and contracted with the Washington State Institute for Public Policy to determine whether the basic training camp program reduces recidivism and is cost beneficial to taxpayers and crime victims. This evaluation compares youth who were eligible for the BTC but were admitted to JRA in 1997, two years prior to the start of the camp, with youth admitted to the BTC between 1998 and 2002. Document ID: (04-08-1201)

Keywords: boot camps, costs, crime reduction, criminal justice costs, evaluation, felony, jra, juvenile crime, juvenile detention, juvenile justice, juvenile justice and rehabilitation, juvenile offenders, juvenile rehabilitation administration, outcome, outcome evaluation, outcomes, recidivism, dshs, Department of Social and Health Services