A program to remove status offenders from secure facilities is evaluated in terms of both immediate objectives and underlying philosophy. We find only mixed success, at best, in achievement of immediate goals, while a critical examination of philosophical assumptions behind the national deinstitutionalization movement reveals inherent confusions and contradictions that make pointless any program that attempts deinstitutionalization without decriminalization and divestiture.
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