All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• ► Reports

  Building Brighter Futures in Indian Country: What’s on the Minds of Native Youth

  The report summarizes the meeting of the June 2007 Tribal Youth Focus Group, comprised of youths ages 10 to 17 from 20...

• ► Reports

  Sexual Violence Reported by Juvenile Correctional Authorities, 2005-06

  Of the nearly 4,100 allegations of sexual violence against youth in juvenile corrections systems from 2005-2006, approximately one in five (732) were...

• Report: Adult Jails Don’t Fix Youth, and Juvenile Lockups Don’t Scare Them

  OJJDP looked at pretty much every published study that measures the effect of transferring juvenile offenders into adult court, and came to...

• Butts to Field: Less Treatment, More Development

  Jeff Butts is well-known on the research end of things in juvenile justice, choosing simply to analyze and conclude. But his recent...

• Secure Detention Defined

  Last week, JJ Today looked at data about status offenders sent to residential facilities by judges. We discovered that securely detaining a...

• FACJJ Starts 2009 Report

  Members of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ) were pretty tight-lipped about this month’s meeting in Chicago, at which its...

• Status Offenders Detained: By the Numbers

  The JJPDA Reauthorization bill that just made it through the Senate Judiciary Committee originally clamped down hard on the use of the...

• Weed and Seed Money Available

  Nonprofits and government agencies in high-crime areas should look into Weed and Seed competitive grants, which are administered by the Community Capacity...

• Welcome to JJ Today!

  This is the first of many updates on our new online feature, JJ Today. Something between a blog and a newsletter, our...

• Research

  Campie Named Director of NCJJ

  Patricia Campie is the new director at the Pittsburgh-based National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), a division of the National Council of...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Face Time Pays Off

  Justice Under Oath: J. Robert Flores testifies last month before a House committee, saying allegations about his grant selections “are false.” Photo:...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Fired Official Bypassed Grant Deadlines

  DeKonty: Actions for faith-based organizations sparked angry e-mail from a federal official. A federal juvenile justice official who was fired last month...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Parolees in California Win New Rights

  In a move hailed by youth advocates as the most important change in the nation’s largest juvenile justice system in three decades,...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Poetic Justice for Vermont Vandals

  Frost: Get “out, out” of his house. Photo: U.S. Library of Congres Youths who think reading poetry is a form of punishment...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Ohio Commits to Change

  A court-mandated reform plan for Ohio should mean more use of small, community-based programs for youth and the hiring of more staff...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Internet Gives Graffiti Vandals a Global Audience

  Los Angeles Times Having their “tags,” or graffiti signatures, viewed by a few thousand commuters each day apparently isn’t enough exposure for...

• New Center for Girls in Juvenile System

  The Jesse Ball DuPont Fund has awarded $500,000 to the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) of Oakland, Calif., to develop...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Campaign for Youth Justice

  http://www.youtube.com/jjreform The Campaign for Youth Justice, which fights the incarceration of youth in adult prisons, has launched its own channel on YouTube....

• News

  Bill Would Ban Detention for Status Offenders

  A ban on detaining juvenile status offenders and money for mental health services were added to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention...

• News

  Default Judgment on JJDPA

  Movement of a bill to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act was stalled today by partisan tension over judicial nominees....