As a one-time youth worker who worked with youth in an adjudicated residential setting in southern Michigan, I am dismayed by the...
Let’s say your program jumps on the evidence-based bandwagon and spends lots of time and money to develop a high-tech performance measurement...
Newist 30 minutes. $149. A great resource for anyone who wishes to advocate a rehabilitative approach to reaching young offenders. The video...
Keymar, Md.—The setting is pastoral: a 120-acre estate in central Maryland, where Preakness and Kentucky Derby winners were once raised. But the...
The scandal that is roiling the Texas juvenile justice system has yielded its first criminal indictments. Two former administrators at the West...
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) The floods that followed Hurricane Katrina wiped out all 132 beds at New Orleans’ two juvenile detention facilities....
I was very pleased to see John Kelly’s “Youth Crime Mystery” article in the March issue. We see too few critical and...
Justice Policy Institute Incarcerating youths as adults does not reduce crime and disproportionately affects youth of color, according to this study, released...
The Journal of Trauma, Vol. 62, Issue 4, April 2007 Abstract available at http://www.jtrauma.com/pt/re/jtrauma/abstract.00005373-200704000-00031.htm. For some people, the conclusion reached by this...
Youth at a TYC assessment unit. Photo: Michael Ainsworth/Dallas Morning News The most stunning aspect of the sex abuse scandal rocking the...
The house – for 25 years a symbol of youth liberation or criminal anarchy, depending on your point of view –...
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a boy...
Education Week Several states are rethinking how they deal with juvenile sex offenders who are enrolled in schools. Recent cases in which...
The National Juvenile Defender Center This detailed report examines juvenile justice legislation by issue and by state, and allows users to compare...
National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)Available at www.nccd-crc.org/nccd/pubs/zogby_feb07.pdf A little over a decade ago, nearly every state began responding to rising...
NEWIST/CESA 7 30 minutes. $149. This documentary, taped by inmates at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, is intended to show young girls...
The reality of tight budgets in a time of war has rendered youth advocates fairly quiet on budget battles in recent years,...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) last month announced an expansion of its Reclaiming Futures initiative, which helps teens in the juvenile...
Anyone trying to figure out why youth crime has been declining nationwide in recent years could probably find no better place to...
Justice Policy Institute Pretrial detention of youth before they are found delinquent is commonly misapplied and can lead to future delinquent behavior,...