All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

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  Scared Straight Programs Closed in 2 of 3 Series’ States

  Critics of the controversial “scared straight” approach had feared that the popular new television show about the strategy might spark a proliferation...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Defending Childhood Projects Commence; Scared Straight Under Fire; Juvenile Justice Information Exchange; and more

  ***Meetings on the Defending Childhood initiative took place this week among senior Justice officials and the eight sites selected to conduct demonstration...

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  Q&A: Juvenile Judge Irene Sullivan, Part Two

  On Wednesday, we ran the first part of Youth Today’s interview with former juvenile judge Irene Sullivan, author of the recently released...

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  The Crossover Killer: Excerpt from “Raised by the Courts”

  Yesterday, Youth Today printed the first half of our interview with Irene Sullivan, a former Florida juvenile judge and author of the...

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  Q&A: Juvenile Judge Irene Sullivan, Part One

  In 1998, Irene Sullivan took a seat on the Florida Circuit Court’s Unified Family Court in Pinellas County after two decades in...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: PREA Rules and Juveniles; State of the Union; a call on administration to fill OJJDP job

  ***The Justice Department issued proposed rules and standards this week for the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which was passed in 2003 to...

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  Minnesota Advocates Push for Changes to Public Access on Juvenile Records

  Supporters and families of ex-offenders in Minnesota will use an organized advocacy campaign today in part to push for more accuracyin public...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Stand-alone Juvenile Justice Agencies Dwindling in Number

  Note: This story was corrected on Saturday, Jan. 22. The original article incorrectly stated the Illinois’ juvenile justice system had already merged...

• Weekly Notes: New juvenile justice leadership in states; Walsh Act workshop; Scared Straight episode 2; and more

  ***Yesterday, we covered structural changes to a number of the independent state JJ agencies over the past three years. Another big change...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: More on Beyond Scared Straight; OJJDP’s Plan for 2011; and more

  ***Episode one of the A&E documentary “Beyond Scared Straight” is in the books. The seven-episode series will follow juveniles and at-risk youths...

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  New ‘Scared Straight’ Series Backs Discredited Strategy

  Supporters and critics of “scared straight” programs – which generally entail youths visiting prisons and prisoners in hopes that the experience will...

• Weekly Notes: Walsh guidelines are finalized, a new fed council on reentry, and more

  Hope everyone out there in juvenile justice land had a wonderful start to 2011! Rumors of Weekly Notes’ demise have been greatly...

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  Roberts Rules

  Juvenile justice advocates and service providers had lofty expectations for the Obama administration and the 111th Congress. But the U.S. Supreme Court...

• 2011 Could Be Big Year for Some Juvenile Drug Treatment Programs

  We might be reading the tea leaves too much here, but it seems that multiple factors may align to spur an investment...

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  Substance Use and Delinquent Behavior Among Serious Adolescent Offenders

  Data from the Justice Department’s long-term Pathways to Desistance study do not establish a causal link between serious juvenile offending and substance...

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  Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study

  Pediatrics A study based on The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that homosexual adolescents were at higher risk of getting...

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  Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study

  Pediatrics A study based on The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that homosexual adolescents were at higher risk of getting...

• Walsh Act Watch: The Pseudo-Extension (Updated)

  Note: This piece was corrected on December 16 to clarify that the legislation, not the Department of Justice, is responsible for the...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  List of Juvenile Justice Pork in Omnibus Spending Bill

  There are more than 6,000 earmarks in the Senate’s proposed 2011 omnibus spending bill, according to a master list compiled by the...

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  Scott Defends PROMISE Act Merger; Juvenile Advocacy Coalition Opposes It

  The bill combining Rep. Bobby Scott’s (D-Va.) Youth PROMISE Act (YPA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) Gang Abatement and Prevention Act has...