All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• BJA, OJJDP in forefront at OJP Hearing Tomorrow

  The list of witnesses for Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Office of Justice Programs is set, and it confirms what...

• Juvenile Drug Courts: Two Agencies, One Application

  The details have not been finalized, but the plan is for one single application in 2009 for federal funds for juvenile drug...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Seattle Takes on Youth/Gang Violence

  Seattle has a youth gang problem. We won’t couch that with the media frenzy terms like “surging juvenile violence” or “growing gang...

• Mighty Missouri Model Honored by Harvard; Now What?

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

• Probation and Management Conference: Act Now!

  OJJDP sent out an e-mail this week about the Juvenile Probation and Justice Management Conference, which will be held in Reno, Nevada...

• Who Should Be Next at OJJDP?

  JJ Today recently posed this question to a few juvenile justice contacts: Who should be the next administrator for the Office of...

• Connecticut: A State in Transition

  JJ Today spent the Labor Day weekend in New England, and had a chance to meet some area juvenile justice people there:...

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  Juvenile Transfer Laws: An Effective Deterrent to Delinquency?

  U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Youth in adult lockups go back to jail more often, and faster, than youth...

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  Detecting Danger: Can We do Better?

  For child welfare and juvenile justice workers, it can literally be a matter of life and death: predicting which new cases are...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Youth Today Launches JJ Today

    You can now get the latest juvenile justice news and grant announcements delivered to your inbox, or view them online anytime....

• Tippecanoe Watch #1: Background

  This is the first of what we envision as a series of occasional updates about the design and development of a juvenile...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Another State Bans Prone Restraints

  Pennsylvania has become the fifth state to ban youth residential programs from using prone restraints, which can lead to accidental asphyxiation or...

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  Hearing on Justice Programs in September

  By John Kelly The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Office of Justice Programs in September to examine whether...

• Weed and Seed Whacked

  We mentioned earlier this month that the Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) at the Office of Justice Programs was fielding applications for...

• Why Does the Poorest State Hate Free Money?

  Heard this from a JJ advocate, and we had to check for ourselves: Mississippi is out of compliance on three of the...

• Got Something to Present?

  The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the National District Attorneys Association are looking for presenters for the 2009...

• Who’s Doing PYD?

  Following Jeff Butts’ plea for a larger focus on positive youth development approaches to working with juvenile offenders, we asked if anyone...

• NY Times All Over Juvenile Justice

  What got into the New York Times editorial board? They have taken up the cause of juvenile justice reform with a vengeance....

• With Walsh Act, State Interpretations Play Big Role

  I spent some time looking at the regulations on sex offender registries contained within the Adam Walsh Act, specifically those that pertain...

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  Building on Strength: Positive Youth Development in Juvenile Justice Programs

  This study of six juvenile justice programs describes the factors that facilitate the adoption of positive youth-development principles in a juvenile justice...