All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Shooting at Peace Games

  A community group in Ohio had a nightmare come true when a youth event that it organized in August to promote nonviolence...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  How Can You Distinguish a Budding Pedophile From a Kid With Real Boundary Problems?

  The New York Times For juvenile justice officials, the line between a burgeoning pedophile and a kid with boundary problems is often...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Youth Voices in Juvenile Justice Reform

  When Shay Bilchik thinks about the potential of involving adjudicated youth in juvenile justice reform, he recalls the impact of foster children...

• Research

  Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies

  Justice Policy Institute www.justicepolicy.org/reports_jl/7-10-07_gangs/GangsFullReport2.pdf  When it comes to reducing gang-related crime and preventing youth from taking part, social programs that offer jobs,...

• ► Reports

  Trauma Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Critical Issues and New Directions

  National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice In the juvenile justice system, the prevalence of youth exposed to trauma is believed...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  DOJ Settles to Fix Facility

  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached another agreement with a state to fix abuses at juvenile justice facilities. The settlement...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Tipping Point for City DHS Reform?

  The Philadelphia Inquirer In an extensive investigation last year of Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services (DHS), the Inquirer reported that several children...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Money Madness and Butler Service

  Flores: The attorney general’s butler, and the national juvenile justice field’s maximum minimum leader. Thank you, Jack Abramoff and your congressional pals...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Lingle Directory

  www.lingledirectory.org This directory profiles alternative, privately owned juvenile residential facilities for youth at risk of confinement in prisons, jails and detention centers....

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  Gender Similarities and Differences in the Association Between Risk and Protective Factors and Self-Reported Serious Delinquency

  Prevention Science (June, 2007) This study of more than 7,800 high school sophomores from seven states found that boys reported higher levels...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Immaturity Can Mean No Trial

  A three-judge appeals panel in Sacramento ruled last month that an 11-year-old candy thief, and all those like him, are too immature...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Infection Kills Youth, Closes Program

  Several youths have died at wilderness and boot camps in recent years because of alleged abuse, but a Colorado program was shut...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  New Group to Ease Re-entry

  A private California foundation has given its last grant to a collaboration of well-known nonprofits to smooth the re-entry of juvenile offenders...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  State’s Youth Prisons Mired in Hopelessness (Part 1) A New Approach to Help Young Offenders (Part 2)

  The San Francisco Chronicle It’s well-documented: Young offenders in California’s juvenile justice system face frequent violence and receive little rehabilitation. Some advocates...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  The Ugly Reality of Restraints

  As a one-time youth worker who worked with youth in an adjudicated residential setting in southern Michigan, I am dismayed by the...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  OJJDP’s Missing Link

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Repairing the Harm: Restorative Justice

  Newist 30 minutes. $149. A great resource for anyone who wishes to advocate a rehabilitative approach to reaching young offenders. The video...

• News

  Restraints that Kill

  Keymar, Md.—The setting is pastoral: a 120-acre estate in central Maryland, where Preakness and Kentucky Derby winners were once raised. But the...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Ex-Youth Workers Charged in Abuse Scandal

  The scandal that is roiling the Texas juvenile justice system has yielded its first criminal indictments. Two former administrators at the West...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Losing Juvenile Jails Aids Justice, Some Say

  The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) The floods that followed Hurricane Katrina wiped out all 132 beds at New Orleans’ two juvenile detention facilities....