All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Juvenile Placement Manual, 2008-09 Edition

  Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice122 pages. $20. In 2002, the Sentencing Service Program of California’s Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice...

• News

  Discontent on DMC

  [Correction: Because of an editing error, a sidebar story to November’s “Tale of Two Reforms,” titled “Discontent on DMC,” referred to a...

• Coburn Lays Smack-Down on DOJ

  Sen. James Coburn (R-Okla.) released Justice Denied this week, a report that paints a rather damning picture of budgetary whims at the...

• Questions for a Prisoner

  Richard Peña turned 38 last month, marking the 16th year of his life spent as Prisoner 93R2859 in New York’s prison system....

• So Many New-Guys, in So Little Time

  We mention a few new state JJ leaders in the Newsmakers column of  November’s Youth Today: “In Wisconsin, Margaret Carpenter is the...

• Tippecanoe Watch #2: Wall Street

  It’s been just over a month since we last updated you on Tippecanoe County, Ind., and its proposed new $17.3 million juvenile...

• OJJDP’s 2008 Grants: First Impressions

  The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention released lists of all its grants for Fiscal 2008, a combination of formula funds...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Reclaiming Futures Spreading Out…Want In?

  In 2001, the Princeton, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced its Reclaiming Futures Initiative, which helped 10 pilot sites develop ways...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  DOL YouthBuild: Quantity over Quality?

  The Department of Labor’s Employment Training Administration put out a notice of funding for 2009 YouthBuild grants, which pay for education and...

• Report Cards Catching On?

  Just as youths in Utah finished their first month of classes this fall, the state’s juvenile justice system was getting its first...

• Great Resource: Juvenile Transfer Law Chart

  Fresh on the heels of OJJDP’s declaration that adult corrections systems aren’t so hot at helping its juvenile wards stay out of...

• Interesting Reads on Youth Courts, Prison Industry, and DMC

  JJ Today is back in D.C., and has finally sorted through the e-mail inbox. Three JJ-related papers of interest have been released...

• News

  Mighty Missouri Model Honored by Harvard; Now What?

    There is no shortage of testimonials from the juvenile justice field when it comes to the confinement strategies used by the...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Court Dress Codes Created After Defendants Get Too Risqué

  AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN Defense lawyers in Travis County, Texas, are channeling Tim Gunn for their clients. After becoming increasingly frustrated with young defendants’...

• Krisberg to leave NCCD

  After 14 years leading the Oakland, Calif.-based National Council on Crime and Delinquency, President Barry Krisberg is leaving the organization. “I’m passing...

• JDAI Conference: Day Two

  Indianapolis The second and final full day of sessions at the JDAI conference just wrapped up (the first day is just an...

• JJ Today at JDAI Conference

  Indianapolis JJ Today is on the road this week in Indy, where the Annie E. Casey Foundation has allowed us to  skulk...

• Q&A: Dr. Laurence Steinberg

  Few people have made more contributions to the research on juvenile delinquent behavior than developmental psychologist Dr. Laurence Steinberg, a professor at...

• Slower than a Speeding Bulletin

  The percentage of juveniles arrested for murder who are black shot up to 54 percent in 2005, a year that saw a...

• Bilchik Says OJJDP Took Eye off the Ball

  The House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on crime, terrorism, and homeland security held an oversight hearing of the various offices within the Office...