The Juvenile Pretrial Test (JPT) represents an objective decision-making strategy for managing youthful offenders referred to juvenile, drug and family courts.

The Juvenile Pretrial Test (JPT) provides juvenile justice professionals with a straight-forward test for screening, assessing and identifying each juvenile's (male and female) risk and needs. It allows for the completion of pretrial risk and needs assessments, the assignment of case dispositions and the collection of case-management information on juvenile offenders as well as neglect and abuse cases.

The Juvenile Pretrial Test (JPT) makes assessment information accessible to juvenile, drug and family court professionals in a timely manner. The JPT collects demographics, criminal offense and juvenile risk and needs information for case management adjudication decisions and administration planning. It provides criminogenic needs information for recidivism research. And, the JPT recommends graduated sanctions for risk severity.

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