The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has released Studying Deterrence Among High-Risk Adolescents, the latest bulletin in the Pathways to Desistance series. This bulletin examines the link between perceptions of the threat of sanctions and deterrence from crime among high-risk adolescents. The authors' findings show that severe punishment – such as correctional placement or a longer stay in correctional placement – does not meaningfully reduce juvenile offending or arrests among these youth.