title: Group home failures in juvenile justice: the next step.
abstract: The author demonstrates that young people who fail in open group homes for status offenders often receive the secure placements that deinstitutionalization was designed to avoid, and that funding regulations may encourage group homes to avoid working with the most difficult youths.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D005260:Female; D006208:Halfway Houses; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D009820:Ohio; D011379:Prognosis; D012114:Residential Treatment