Underage Drinking: Practice Guidelines for Community Corrections.

摘要

Guidelines based on evidence-based practices1 help direct the roles of community supervision professionals who work with underage drinkers. Adapting evidence-based practices when working with underage drinking offenders requires juvenile justice professionals to recognize existing legal, structural, procedural, and philosophical differences between communities. Community corrections professionals who use evidence-based practice standards in this way can provide a blueprint for communities to develop the most effective responses to this problem. This bulletin focuses on 10 practice guidelines based on the evidence-based practice literature. Practitioners should consider these guidelines when working with youth who are referred to community corrections for underage drinking and related offenses. Readers should consider these practice guidelines within the context of their local system and agency and determine how to facilitate necessary policy, practice, and system changes.