The following information is summarized from T. Grisso (1998).  Forensic Evaluation of Juveniles.  Professional Resources Press. 

Once a juvenile is adjudicated delinquent, a hearing is held to determine the disposition of the case.  Options include:

   A.  Probation/participation in community services

   B.  Commitment in residential facilities in the community (e.g., "camps")

   C.  Commitment to inpatient psychiatric facilities

   D.  Commitment to a detention center. 

Disposition evaluations procide the court with information to determine th types of services available and the degree of security that are needed in a particular case. 

Grisso's Suggested Structure for Rehabilitation Evaluations:

   I.  What is the youth's history?

       The evaluation should provide the court with a description of the youth's personal, family, medical, psychiatric, academic, and delinquency history.

   II.  What are the youth's needs? 

       The evaluaton should provide the court with a description of the youth's needs as they relate to past offenses, as well as how the youth's environment would need to be modified in order to reduce the likelihood of recidivism.

   III.  What modes of intervention could be applied?

       The evaluation should provide the court with a description of interventions that are available and are known to be effective in rehabilitating the youth and reducing risk, with attentionpaid to employing the "least resitrictive alternative."

    IV.  What is the likelihood of change, given the relevant interventions?

       The evaluation should describe the likelihood that the goals of treatment can be met, given the partcular youth's history, living situation, and the time available within the jurisdictional age limits of the juvenile justice system.