Teen Court is a juvenile diversion program designed to circumvent the formal processing
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Teen Court is a juvenile diversion program designed to circumvent the formal processing of first-time juvenileoffenders within the juvenile justice system. The articleAn Experimental Evaluation of Teen Courts (J. ofExperimental Criminology, 2008: 137163) reported ona study in which offenders were randomly assignedeither to Teen Court or to the traditional Department ofJuvenile Services method of processing. Of the 56 TCindividuals, 18 subsequently recidivated (look it up!)during the 18-month follow-up period, whereas 12 of the51 DJS individuals did so. Does the data suggest that thetrue proportion of TC individuals who recidivate duringthe specified follow-up period differs from the proportionof DJS individuals who do so? State and test therelevant hypotheses using a significance level of .10.
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