http://www.usdoj.gov/tribaljusticeandsafety This new U.S. Office of Justice Programs (OJP) site provides information about courts, corrections, law enforcement, crime statistics, crime prevention, and...
When the researchers responsible for evaluating the federal Title V Community Prevention Grants Program realized that virtually none of the program’s grantees...
Surge. Spike. A gathering storm. All of the above have been used in media coverage to describe trends in the most recent...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Drug courts. Truancy courts. Girls’ courts. Mental health courts. Believing that traditional juvenile courts aren’t enough, juvenile justice reformers have created a...
Child Welfare: Improving Social Service Program, Training and Technical Assistance Information Would Help Address Long-standing Service-Level and Workforce ChallengesU.S. Government Accountability Office...
As head of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Dan Macallair has repeatedly given city officials scientific data that juvenile curfews...
Following the recent rash of fatal shootings in schools, the Bush administration scrambled to protect youth from more violence last month by...
As a symbol of the wrong way to do things, the razor wire-enclosed Oak Hill Youth Center in Laurel, Md., has long...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, signed by President Bush in July, was widely hailed as one of the most...
Simon Gonsoulin and David Bell saw different things happening in juvenile justice before Katrina came ashore. But ask either how the storm...
The annual National Institute of Justice (NIJ) conference in July convened researchers whose work is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s...
The bigoted vendetta waged by America’s news media and institutions against youth has entered an even uglier phase: outright fabrication. Endless “teen...
Treyce d’Gabriel says she can tell a lot about a kid from a note he scrawls or his handwritten laundry list. She...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Boston, Mass.(617) 541-2602www.cityofboston.gov/bra/yoboston Objective: Connect youth who have been in the juvenile justice system with services that can help them succeed...
Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National ReportU.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention/National Center for Juvenile JusticeAvailable at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/nr2006/index.html ...
Last month, authorities exhumed the body of a 14-year-old boy who had died in a Florida juvenile boot camp, conducted an autopsy,...