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,...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Staunton, Va. — When Superintendent Tim Smith goes to work every day at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Detention Center here, the layout...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Chances are, if you’re not old enough to vote, you’re not pulling in a paycheck. Today’s teens face the most dismal job...