Management audit of the department of youth services

By Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Post Audit and Oversight

Subjects: Crime, Deinstitutionalization, Massachusetts. Department of Youth Services, Children and Youth, Children, Juvenile delinquency, Auditing, Foster home care, Administration of Justice, Statistics

Description: ...includes history of the department and juvenile correctional institutions, examination of the department's organizational structure, qualifications of it's officials and it's mandated duties; evaluates deinstitutionalization; also discusses statistics on runaways and deaths occuring among juveniles under DYS custody and foster home care programs for offenders; investigates accounting procedures and funds management...