The U.S. Supreme Court may soon rule on a pair of cases pertaining to the legality of sentencing juvenile offenders to life...
Funding ***The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) surprised many in the field this week by soliciting a new proposal. The agency will...
A study being released today of youths who aged out of foster care in three Midwestern states paints a grim picture of...
Funding Action: Engaging Law Enforcement to Reduce Juvenile Crime, Victimization, and Delinquency: For nonprofits or public agencies to help police departments implement...
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, which led the charge in the late 1970s to enable judges to lock...
National Council of La Raza This factsheet by the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) breaks down the American youth population...
Note: This story was updated on April 1. Daytime curfew laws, which generally prohibit youths from traveling unsupervised in public during school...
Note: this piece was updated on Monday morning Funding No new funding solicitations put out by the Department of Justice since we...
The board of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) voted over the weekend to support elimination of the...
Funding The Department of Justice has issued solicitations for three pots of money that support mentoring programs: National Mentoring Programs: This would...
Funding A couple of juvenile-relevant announcements from the Justice Department: Research on Sentencing and Community-Based Alternatives to Incarceration: Grants from the National...
States may be able to shield most juvenile sex offenders from inclusion on a public registry and still achieve compliance with the...
Ronald Angel, Ark. Leo Arnone, Conn. In 2007, eleven states hired new leaders to oversee their juvenile justice systems. That’s nothing...
University of New Hampshire, Sage Publications While juveniles involved in prostitution were previously viewed as adolescent runaways and “street youth” engaging...
Vera Institute of Justice Youth in the juvenile justice system with limited-English-proficient (LEP) parents have a higher chance of being prosecuted and...
Note: This piece has been edited since its original publishing date of Friday, Feb. 26 Youth Today just finished its March issue,...
Note: This story has been updated since its original posting. Last year’s much-heralded merger of the National Center on Addiction and Substance...
***Attorney General Eric Holder spoke to a standing room-only crowd yesterday at the Mayflower Hotel here in Washington, D.C., yesterday to kick...
First, the Weekly Notes from last week: It snowed. And since then: It snowed. All the time, every day. JJ Today and...
The Senate confirmed more than two dozen nominees of President Barack Obama yesterday, including three leaders of family and child-serving agencies. Patrick...