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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Kangaroo Court

That 1983 study (the comical “Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler” magazines by Judith Reisman) received $734,371...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Right Guy

If President Bush was searching for a superbly qualified candidate to run OJJDP, he needed to look no further than his own...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Faith Assumption

On May 20 President Bush was at Notre Dame trying to pump more gas into his compassionate conservative domestic agenda and his...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

National Groups

Quickly making his mark on the Corporation for National Service is former Indianapolis mayor Steven Goldsmith, now an unpaid special assistant to...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Radical Idea Serves Youth, Saves Money

Memphis, Tenn. In 1995, Patrick Lawler, CEO of one of Tennessee’s largest youth service contractors, approached state officials with a radical idea:...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Reading Between the Studies

“System building is slow. …The diversity of the field has all kinds of implications. …Only a modest percentage of low-income children participate....

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With One Voice: America’s Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy, and Halfway There: A Prescription for Continued Progress in Preventing Teen Pregnancy

By Amy Bracken The vast majority of U.S. adults and teens believe that teens should not be sexually active but those who...

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2001 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being

By Amy Bracken In some regards, teens are doing better in almost all of the 50 states and the District of Columbia....

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A National Youth Development Agenda: Public Policy Positions of the National Collaboration for Youth

By Amy Bracken This publication outlines the positions and policy recommendations agreed upon by the D.C.-based National Collaboration’s 39 member organizations. The...

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Justice by Gender: The Lack of Appropriate Prevention, Division and Treatment Alternatives for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System

By Amy Bracken While juvenile crime has been on the decline since 1994, the number of girls in the juvenile justice system...

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Prospecting Among the Poor: Welfare Privatization

By Bill Berkowitz Applied Research Center The California-based Applied Research Center has been one of the most aggressive opponents of welfare reform, saying...

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Zero Tolerance, Zero Evidence: An Analysis of School Disciplinary Practice

By Russell Skiba Indiana Education Policy Center This report explores the effects and side-effects of extreme punishment – usually suspension or expulsion...

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