A study concerned with severe school attendance problems in the UK that are dealt with by the juvenile court. Researches a whole series of randomly allocated trials to evaluate judicial procedures actually carried out by magistrates in juvenile court. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
This book is concerned with an investigation of severe school attendance problems. The purpose of this study is to integrate and synthesize related research carried out over the last ten years on this important social problem. The research describes the first use of randomly controlled trials by the courts in Great Britain and the psychiatric assessment of a non-clinical population of poor attenders. The approach provides new and interesting data and a good methodological example of the use of randomized experiments by the courts.
