All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Are Daytime Curfews Becoming More En Vogue?

  Note: This story was updated on April 1. Daytime curfew laws, which generally prohibit youths from traveling unsupervised in public during school...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: DOJ funding recap; LWOP cases next week?; Coalition for Juvenile Justice conference; and more

  Note: this piece was updated on Monday morning Funding No new funding solicitations put out by the Department of Justice since we...

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  Judges’ Council Support Elimination of Valid Court Order Exception

  The board of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) voted over the weekend to support elimination of the...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Funding from DOJ; hearing on girls in JJ; and more

  Funding The Department of Justice has issued solicitations for three pots of money that support mentoring programs: National Mentoring Programs: This would...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Funding announcements from Justice; Arizona’s plan to shut down state JJ; Dwayne Betts, Image Award winner; and more

  Funding A couple of juvenile-relevant announcements from the Justice Department: Research on Sentencing and Community-Based Alternatives to Incarceration: Grants from the National...

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  States May Be Able to Shield Juveniles from Registries

  States may be able to shield most juvenile sex offenders from inclusion on a public registry and still achieve compliance with the...

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  Changing of the Juvenile Justice Guard

    Ronald Angel, Ark. Leo Arnone, Conn. In 2007, eleven states hired new leaders to oversee their juvenile justice systems. That’s nothing...

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  Conceptualizing Juvenile Prostitution as Child Maltreatment: Findings from the National Juvenile Prostitution Study

    University of New Hampshire, Sage Publications While juveniles involved in prostitution were previously viewed as adolescent runaways and “street youth” engaging...

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  If Parents Don’t Speak English Well, Will Their Kids Get Locked Up?

  Vera Institute of Justice Youth in the juvenile justice system with limited-English-proficient (LEP) parents have a higher chance of being prosecuted and...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Hearing on sex abuse, new name in the OJJDP mix, and more

  Note: This piece has been edited since its original publishing date of Friday, Feb. 26 Youth Today just finished its March issue,...

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  CASA, Join Together Split

  Note: This story has been updated since its original posting. Last year’s much-heralded merger of the National Center on Addiction and Substance...

• Weekly Notes: Indigent Defense conference convenes in D.C.; movement on OJJDP administrator search; and more

  ***Attorney General Eric Holder spoke to a standing room-only crowd yesterday at the Mayflower Hotel here in Washington, D.C., yesterday to kick...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Funding for mental health collaboration; increased attention to Walsh Act compliance; upcoming conferences and training

  First, the Weekly Notes from last week: It snowed. And since then: It snowed. All the time, every day. JJ Today and...

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  Three Nominees Confirmed for Major Youth Work Agencies

  The Senate confirmed more than two dozen nominees of President Barack Obama yesterday, including three leaders of family and child-serving agencies. Patrick...

• Obama’s 2011 plan for Juvenile Justice spending

  President Barack Obama released his spending plan for 2011 today. Advocates in the JJ world, and pretty much every other corner of...

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  In Juvenile Justice Care, Boys Get Worse

    Is it time for the United States to haul in its law-and-order approach to adolescent misbehavior? Time for principals to stop...

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  One in Eight Incarcerated Juveniles Experiences Sexual Victimization

    Twelve percent – or about one in eight – of youths held in large juvenile facilities in the United States report...

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  A Boost, and Lots of Earmarks

  Click Image for PDF of Chart The fiscal 2010 budget contains several noteworthy items for juvenile justice: Second Chance Act: The act,...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup

    David ChuraBeacon Press216 pages. $24.95 hardcover. When the media and some academics embraced the concept of juvenile “super-predators” in the mid-1990s,...

• Weekly Notes: Cabinet converges for coordinating council; ICAC grant available; and more

  ***There is officially a sign that the administration of Barack Obama has juvenile justice on its radar. And it came down unto...