All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• Research

  New Evidence on the Monetary Value of Saving a High-Risk Youth

  Vanderbilt University – Owen Graduate School of Management and City University of New York – John Jay College of Criminal JusticeAvailable at...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Hack at Juvenile Justice

  The following is a response to the December story, “For Juvenile Justice, a Panel of One,” about grant awards by the U.S....

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Adult Time Raises Youth Crime

  Trying juveniles as adults and housing them in adult prisons is “counterproductive” – leading to higher and often more violent recidivism rates...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  500 R.I. Teens Fall Into ‘Gap’ as Adults

  The Providence (R.I.) Journal More than 500 17-year-olds are making their way through Rhode Island’s adult justice system because they had the...

• ► Reports

  Juvenile Court Statistics 2003–2004

  National Center for Juvenile Justice The most recent in the Juvenile Court Statistics series, this report describes delinquency cases handled between 1985...

• ► Reports

  Getting Juvenile Justice Right in New York: Proven Interventions Will Cut Crime and Save Money

  Fight Crime: Invest in Kids – New York According to this report, nearly three-quarters of the 17,500 juveniles held in New York...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The JDAI Help Desk

  http://www.jdaihelpdesk.org The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative offers this practice-based, informational resource for practitioners, policymakers and advocates interested in...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Ask the Judge

  www.askthejudge.info A Q&A with a real judge answering common legal questions from teens, such as “What happens to me if my parents...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  For Juvenile Justice, A Panel of One

  One grant proposal was to improve evaluations of state juvenile justice programs. The two Justice Department reviewers loved it, each giving it...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Web Watch for November 2007

    Child Welfare Adoption Learning Partnerswww.adoptionlearningpartners.org/courses/overview.cfmTwo new online courses at this site aim to educate prospective adoptive parents about a variety of...

• ► Reports

  Pathways to Juvenile Detention Reform: Beyond Detention – System Transformation Through Juvenile Detention Reform

  This is the 14th report in the Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Pathways series on juvenile detention reform. It documents...

• ► Reports

  Residential Treatment Programs: Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain Programs for Troubled Youth

  Residential treatment programs operating as wilderness therapy programs, boot camps and academies cite positive outcomes, but there have been numerous allegations regarding...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Press Watch for November 2007

  Log on to these news organization’s websites and search for the headline through the site’s search or archive feature. Child Welfare Foster...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Families in Need of Critical Assistance

  Jessica Kendall American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law 130 pages. $19.99. Kendall makes recommendations for progressive reforms in state...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Laws Loosen for Consensual Sex

  Four states recently adjusted their sex offense statutes to allow more leeway for youth who get in legal trouble resulting from consensual...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Youth Court Group Comes to Order

  After a two-year battle with paperwork and other administrative details, the National Association of Youth Courts has set up shop as a...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  The Jena Six and the Big Picture

  The case of the “Jena Six” in Louisiana has drawn public attention to the disproportionate treatment of racial groups in juvenile justice...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Visitors to Juvenile Hall Feel Stuck Too

  The Los Angeles Times By the time the relatives of youth incarcerated at the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar, Calif.,...

• A Seismic Shift Stirs California

  California, home of one of the country’s most notorious juvenile justice systems, is about to test what happens when reformers get what...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Jessica Feierman

  Jessica Feierman   Staff Attorney Juvenile Law Center (215) 625-0551 Age: 37 Salary: $57,500 About the Organization: The center works on behalf...