THE TREATMENT OF JUVENILE-OFFENDERS MAY DEPEND ON THE LOCATION

Data on 876 juvenile offenders in sir different jurisdictions are exam ined to see if there are different outcomes of restitution, probation, or incarceration based on the locale. The data are from an excellent investigation by Schneider and Ervin (1990). However, they did not foc us on this part of their data. The results show widely discrepant outc omes, which brings into question the fairness of the sentences. Some l ocales never or almost never incarcerated anyone, while in Ada County (Boise), Idaho 61 percent of the offenders received incarceration and none received probation.