Although thousands of youths across the country are placed under community-based supervision by juvenile courts, little research has examined how well youths perform under supervision or how their performance might be predicted. Recent investigation of probation practices in one jurisdiction provided relevant outcome data and identified failure to appear at a review hearing as a behavior strongly associated with subsequent probation revocation. This study examined probation department records for 200 youth under pre- and/or post-adjudication supervision in a large, mid-Atlantic county to determine whether prior findings replicated in a new jurisdiction, whether differences in factors associated with revocation emerged for youth under pre- and post-adjudication supervision, and whether any youth characteristics or behaviors were significantly related to failure to appear at a review hearing. In addition to identifying several similarities and differences between these two jurisdictions, results revealed significant relationships between youths’ AWOL status and both failure to appear at the next review hearing and probation revocation at the next review hearing. Further, important differences emerged in the factors preceding revocation of pre- and post-adjudication supervision in this jurisdiction. These results add nuance to existing understanding of youths’ performance under community-based supervision and implicate several potential avenues for further investigation.Ph.D., Psychology -- Drexel University, 201
