“…Thus far, research on length of stay for juvenile institutional care has involved facilities without any explicit therapeutic orientation. Among these studies, there is either no meaningful difference in length of stay (Kraus, 1981;Winokur, Smith, Bontrager, & Blankenship, 2008), or a modest relationship between increasing length of stay and increasing recidivism (Gendreau, Little, & Goggin, 1996;Lovins, 2013). In the most recent and well-controlled study thus far on juvenile incarceration and length of stay (Loughran, Schubert, Fagan, Piquero, & Losoya, 2009), researchers found no benefit to longer or shorter stays and no differences in placement versus probation after matching samples.…”