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All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"
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1.7K► ReportsInjustice in the Lower Courts: How Municipal Courts Rob America’s Youth
The Juvenile Law Center discusses the oft-overlooked role that municipal courts play in harming the prospects of American youth through unnecessary incarcerations...
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1.7K► ReportsRacial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist
The Sentencing Project releases a new report discussing how stark racial disparities in the juvenile justice system remain relatively unchanged even as...
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2.9KOpinionBehavioral Challenges Can Push Youth With Disabilities Into School-to-Prison Pipeline
Who are youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? The population of youth with IDD is vast. In 2018-19, the number of...
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2.0K► ReportsHuman Rights Protections for Children in the U.S. Justice System – 2020 National State Ratings Report
Human Rights for Kids takes a comprehensive look at the basic legal framework protecting the rights of justice-involved youth across the country...
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1.9KNewsMacon’s School-justice Partnership Vulnerable To Pandemic Effects, Change In Leadership
Bibb County District Attorney David Cooke first heard about school-justice partnerships five years ago on the other side of the country, at...
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1.5K► ReportsYouth Justice Under the Coronavirus: Linking Public Health Protections with the Movement for Youth Decarceration
A new report from the Sentencing Project discusses how the juvenile justice system has responded to COVID-19 and makes a number of...
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1.2K► ReportsRethinking the Role of the Juvenile Justice System: Improving Youth’s School Attendance and Educational Outcomes
This new brief from the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center discusses findings from an unprecedented research study on the impact...
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1.5K► ReportsThe Latinx Data Gap in the Youth Justice System
A new report analyzes racial and ethnic data at state-level youth justice agencies, documenting how inconsistent data categories and reporting result in...
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2.4K► ReportsEvaluating the Implementation of Raise the Age in New York City
The Youth Justice Research Collaborative releases a policy brief outlining how Raise the Age has been implemented in NYC since being signed...
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2.1K► ReportsLabeled for Life: A Review of Youth Sex Offender Registration Laws
The Juvenile Law Center publishes a comprehensive review of youth sex offender registration laws around the country, discussing how harmful and ineffective...
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1.9K► ReportsExpand the Use of Diversion From the Juvenile Justice System
The Annie E. Casey foundation makes the case for significant expansion of the use of diversion to avoid formally prosecuting low-risk juvenile...
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876GrantsHigher Education in Prison Improvement Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Higher Education, Education in Prison, Incarcerated Youth | Amount: $250,000 - $1,000,000 | Deadline: Aug. 21, 2020 (Registration); Aug. 28,...
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1.3K► ReportsThe Presence of School Resource Officers in America’s Schools
The presence of law enforcement in schools has been a controversial issue for decades. Rather than preventing crime, SROs have been linked...
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1.6KNewsLas Cruces Caseworker Helping Youth Who Have Aged Out of Care Plus the System-involved
Transitioning out of juvenile justice is already laborious for many young people. It’s infinitely more difficult during a global pandemic. “They’re literally...
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3.6KNewsNorth Carolina’s Raise the Age Law Highlights How Schools Handle Discipline
“We don’t know how many students are casualties of a racist system, in which they are punished for being in their bodies,...
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2.2K► ReportsA Guide to Community Strategies for Improving Emerging Adults’ Safety and Well-Being
The Urban Institute releases a guide which brings together research on the unique needs of emerging adults and outlines the best strategies...
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2.1K► ReportsSexual Victimization Reported By Youth in Juvenile Facilities, 2018
The Bureau of Justice statistics releases the most current figures on youth-reported instances of sexual victimization during incarceration at juvenile detention facilities...
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2.0KNewsRaise the Age Is No Panacea for North Carolina Youth
Issues raised by the school-to-prison pipeline in North Carolina can’t be pinpointed to just one factor. But, said Peggy Nicholson of the...
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3.5KOpinionWe Must Understand Promise of Adolescent Development to Serve Youth
Nearly 25% of our population are teens and young adults in the most important developmental sprint of their lives. But rather than...
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2.7K► ReportsJuvenile Arrests, 2017
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) discusses the latest data and trends involving arrests of juveniles across the country....
