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The article discusses reasons for praising the Intensive Protective Supervision Project as evaluated by Land, McCall, and Williams. These reasons include (a) the random assignment of probationers to a target and comparison group, (b) maintenance of good records about the process of intervention and relevant characteristics of the clients, (c) and tentative results suggesting that the prevention effort has been successful. The article suggests using dose- response evaluations that include measures of the amount of individuation, of the degree of supervision, and of the quality of behavior evaluation. It also suggests considering differential effects of treatment for different types of families as well as for different types of juveniles. Although judgment about the success of the treatment approach ispremature, short-term results are promising. The full records will enable a more complete evaluation.

Abstract: This paper has as its focus a largely neglected, but growing area of juvenile justice: the structure and practice of a pre‐court tribunal. Although the ostensible purpose of the body that is the subject of this analysis is to exercise a discretion as to whether or not families should be taken to court because of a child's non‐attendance at school, we argue here that its underlying purpose can be interpreted as upholding and ensuring commitment to a normative view of the world which may bear little relation to the world as it really is for those appearing before the tribunal. The process by which this task is achieved is documented and is followed by a discussion of the issues that this raises for the administration of justice in this area.