Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections: A Guide to Promising Practices

This 2002 monograph was produced as the final product of a two-year federal collaborative project between the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Arts Endowment. This publication documents the three pilot programs and three enhancement sites in the project, describes the elements of successful arts-in-juvenile justice programs, recounts problem areas such as security concerns and recommends solutions, and includes survey findings of 26 national arts-in-juvenile justice programs with a summary report. 40 pp. Publication is available by contacting the author, Grady Hillman, at 512-467-8382, or at gradyh@prodigy.net. $5.00 for shipping.