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This study explores the recidivism outcomes of 1,804 serious and violent delinquents sentenced under a blended sentencing statute and released early by juvenile correctional authorities without continuing their blended sentence in adult prisons. Released at an average age of 19, roughly 50% of releases were rearrested for a felony-level offense postrelease. The remaining 50% of all releases did not incur a postrelease arrest or were rearrested for an offense no higher than a misdemeanor. Measures for assaultive institutional misconduct and prior delinquent adjudications were predictive of recidivism in models examining rearrest for any offense and rearrest for a felony only. Substance abusers, gang members, those with a gang-related commitment offense, and homicide-related state commitments were significantly more likely to be rearrested for any offense postrelease. This article ends with a discussion of implications specific to this high risk cohort of released delinquent offenders.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Determinate Sentencing and the Texas Youth Commission: A Timeline -- Chapter 1. Origins and Discoveries -- Chapter 2. The Determinate Sentencing Act in Texas -- Chapter 3. The Sheep That Got Lost -- Chapter 4. Doing Time in the Texas Youth Commission -- Chapter 5. Another Second Chance -- Chapter 6. The Burden of Second Chances -- Chapter 7. Three Decades Later -- Chapter 8. The Last Word -- Notes -- Index