All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

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  Effects of Federal Legislation on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

  As many as 300,000 children become victims of commercial sexual exploitation every year in the United States, according to a new study...

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  The Beacon Community Centers Middle School Initiative: Report on Implementation and Youth Experience in the Initiative’s Second Year

  This report evaluates the Beacon Community Centers Middle School initiative in New York City that was established in fall 2007 to offer...

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  Juvenile Court Statistics 2006-2007

  This report reviews the almost 1.7 million juvenile delinquency cases handled in 2007 in U.S. courts, and compares them with caseload levels...

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  Advocates Ask Justice to Investigate Texas Juvenile Facilities

  A group of advocacy organizations has asked the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of  Justice to investigate abuse and deprivation...

• Would JJDPA Reforms Put Too Much Work on States?

  The 15-member committee tasked with the Assessing Juvenile Justice Reform project met for the first time this week in Washington, and for...

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  Hornberger, Choice of Some Nat’l Advocates, Not on Justice’s Short List?

  Office of Justice Programs boss Laurie Robinson told JJ Today last week that the department was in the process of interviewing a...

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  Committee to Begin Work on JJDPA Effectiveness

  A committee tasked with assessing the impact of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act will hold its first public meeting starting...

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  New Legal Theory Aims at Racial Disparities

    Harrisburg, Pa. – A series of hearings here last month marked the first step in what promises to be an unorthodox...

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  JJDPA Non-Compliance Rises in 2009

  Note: This story was corrected on June 29. See comments below article for more information. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act monitors...

• Weekly Notes: Walsh Act Delayed; LWOP in Penn.; Illinois’ mental health problem; and more

  ***Pennsylvania leads the nation in two things: cheese steak consumption and locking up juveniles for life without parole (LWOP). One of those...

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  Congress Passes Law to Reduce Crack/Cocaine Sentencing Disparities

  President Barack Obama is expected to sign a bill passed by the House of Representatives Wednesday that will reduce the gap in...

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  Third Time a Charm for Juvenile Justice Nomination?

  Justice Department officials are close to completing interviews with a third round of candidates to lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and...

• Weekly Notes: Wyo. Juvies Handled as Adults; Luzerne Update; Juvenile Drug Treatment Conference in December; and more

  *** Pat Arthur and Jennifer Horvath – attorneys for the National Center for Youth Law and the Wyoming ACLU, respectively – issued...

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  Healing Invisible Wounds: Why Investing in Trauma-Informed Care for Children Makes Sense

  This policy brief says that not enough is being done by the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems to address the issues...

• Mayor Names Chief Juvenile Prosecutor to Head D.C.’s Juvenile Justice Department

  Note: This story was updated on July 20 The reform of Washington, D.C.’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services — which has garnered...

• Weekly Notes: Making the budget crunch work for reform; NY settles with DOJ; Illinois juvenile boss resigns; and more

  News ***Nice resource here from the National Juvenile Justice Network on using the state budget crunch to one’s advantage as an advocate...

• Weekly Notes: Justice Wants Your Feedback, Drug Courts on Chopping Block, and more

  ***A bit of federal news: The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is soliciting public comments and feedback on the...

• Book Reviews

  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  This groundbreaking book by lawyer, advocate and scholar Michelle Alexander — in a new paperback edition with a foreword by Cornel West — reframes...

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  Well-Known New Orleans Juvenile Judge Steps Down Amid Controversy

  Judge David Bell, the former chief juvenile judge of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court in Louisiana and a prominent participant in a...

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  Weekly Notes: Juvenile Court Stats; Profs for JJPDA Reauthorization…and more

  NEWS *** The Pittsburgh-based National Center for Juvenile Justice published its Juvenile Court Statistics 2006-2007 online last week, and also released four...