Some of the biggest organizations in youth work were winners of the Justice Department’s National Mentoring grants announced Wednesday. They are: *...
***The name of one candidate for the administrator position at the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has emerged this...
Hope everyone in the JJ field had a great summer. JJ Today was relatively quiet in the month of August for two...
A man leaves his neighborhood one day to visit the mother of his child. The woman’s current boyfriend finds out, and recruits...
Some state governments recently have discussed whether participating in the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) is valuable, even before a...
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (IG) just released its audit of some Recovery Act spending by the...
As many as 300,000 children become victims of commercial sexual exploitation every year in the United States, according to a new study...
This report evaluates the Beacon Community Centers Middle School initiative in New York City that was established in fall 2007 to offer...
This report reviews the almost 1.7 million juvenile delinquency cases handled in 2007 in U.S. courts, and compares them with caseload levels...
A group of advocacy organizations has asked the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate abuse and deprivation...
The 15-member committee tasked with the Assessing Juvenile Justice Reform project met for the first time this week in Washington, and for...
Office of Justice Programs boss Laurie Robinson told JJ Today last week that the department was in the process of interviewing a...
A committee tasked with assessing the impact of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act will hold its first public meeting starting...
Harrisburg, Pa. – A series of hearings here last month marked the first step in what promises to be an unorthodox...
Note: This story was corrected on June 29. See comments below article for more information. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act monitors...
***Pennsylvania leads the nation in two things: cheese steak consumption and locking up juveniles for life without parole (LWOP). One of those...
President Barack Obama is expected to sign a bill passed by the House of Representatives Wednesday that will reduce the gap in...
Justice Department officials are close to completing interviews with a third round of candidates to lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and...
*** Pat Arthur and Jennifer Horvath – attorneys for the National Center for Youth Law and the Wyoming ACLU, respectively – issued...
This policy brief says that not enough is being done by the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems to address the issues...