After 14 years leading the Oakland, Calif.-based National Council on Crime and Delinquency, President Barry Krisberg is leaving the organization. “I’m passing...
Indianapolis The second and final full day of sessions at the JDAI conference just wrapped up (the first day is just an...
Indianapolis JJ Today is on the road this week in Indy, where the Annie E. Casey Foundation has allowed us to skulk...
Few people have made more contributions to the research on juvenile delinquent behavior than developmental psychologist Dr. Laurence Steinberg, a professor at...
The percentage of juveniles arrested for murder who are black shot up to 54 percent in 2005, a year that saw a...
The House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on crime, terrorism, and homeland security held an oversight hearing of the various offices within the Office...
The list of witnesses for Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Office of Justice Programs is set, and it confirms what...
The details have not been finalized, but the plan is for one single application in 2009 for federal funds for juvenile drug...
Seattle has a youth gang problem. We won’t couch that with the media frenzy terms like “surging juvenile violence” or “growing gang...
There is no shortage of testimonials from the JJ field when it comes to the confinement strategies used by the State of...
OJJDP sent out an e-mail this week about the Juvenile Probation and Justice Management Conference, which will be held in Reno, Nevada...
JJ Today recently posed this question to a few juvenile justice contacts: Who should be the next administrator for the Office of...
JJ Today spent the Labor Day weekend in New England, and had a chance to meet some area juvenile justice people there:...
U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Youth in adult lockups go back to jail more often, and faster, than youth...
For child welfare and juvenile justice workers, it can literally be a matter of life and death: predicting which new cases are...
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This is the first of what we envision as a series of occasional updates about the design and development of a juvenile...
Pennsylvania has become the fifth state to ban youth residential programs from using prone restraints, which can lead to accidental asphyxiation or...
By John Kelly The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Office of Justice Programs in September to examine whether...
We mentioned earlier this month that the Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) at the Office of Justice Programs was fielding applications for...