Interventions that focus on juvenile confinement into the community consist of reentry programs that help juveniles adapt to life in a community and reduce the likelihood of recidivism. Only two programs have been found effective for African American youth with violence or aggression problems: aggression replacement training and the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center. Thus, this remains another area for future research.
Criminal Justice System → Community
The increasing use of waivers or transfers from the juvenile justice system will by def- inition create a demand for programs that address reentry. Failing to address this will inevitably feed back to affect the community-level risk factors for another generation of juvenile offenders. Aggression replacement therapy is currently the only empirically supported intervention available for adaptation to an intervention program specific to the reentry of juvenile offenders from the criminal justice system.