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All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pubs and Videos for February 2002
Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...
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News
Juvenile Crimes Tiptoe Into Congress
Last year at this time, opinions about proposed juvenile justice legislation were splashed across newspapers, flashed on television screens and hotly debated...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
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New Jersey Town Loses Tolerance – After 50 suspensions and police files created in six weeks for children – mostly between kindergarten...
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Justice by Gender: The Lack of Appropriate Prevention, Division and Treatment Alternatives for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
By Amy Bracken While juvenile crime has been on the decline since 1994, the number of girls in the juvenile justice system...
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News
Second Chance Homes Find A White House Friend – Again
First, the scourge was smallpox: In 1729, it brought women and their children to the nation’s first orphanage and...
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News
For Youth Offenders, It’s Payback Time
Lincoln, Nebraska Marilyn Perez sometimes struggles to sleep in her own bed, ever since that terrorizing night last year when a...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
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Foundation Giving Is Bullish – The New York-based Foundation Center’s annual report revealed that giving from the nation’s 50,000 grant-making foundations increased...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Supreme Court Hears ‘Good News’
A U.S. Supreme Court verdict is being awaited following the recent oral argument over a case involving a faith-based youth program that...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Juvenile Crime Law Gutted
A California appeals court took the heart out of the Proposition 21 laws passed less than a year ago, striking down the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
ACA Debates Youth In Prison
The American Correctional Association’s policies say that youths should not be confined in adult facilities, but the ACA has just put out...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
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Bully Foes Pushed Around: Mary Harvey, founder of Prescott, Ariz.-based Safe Schools, Safe Students, is an eternal optimist. Since mid-fall her agency...
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An Investigation of Philadelphia’s Youth Aid Panel: A Community-based Diversion Program for First-time Youthful Offenders
Nina Chernoff and Bernardine Watson Public/Private Ventures This report shows that Philadelphia’s Youth Aid Panel (YAP) initiative, established by the city’s District...
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Handle With Care: Serving the Mental Health of Young Offenders Coalition for Juvenile Justice 2000 Annual Report
Between 50 percent and 75 percent of incarcerated youth have “diagnosable” mental health disorders, and few juvenile detention facilities are properly equipped...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Combating Delinquency: No Place Like Home
When it comes to combating delinquency, there’s no place like home. That’s what nine months investigating America’s juvenile crime problem for the...
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News
Once Lame Juvenile Justice System Jockeys to the Lead
Richmond, Ky.—In four short years, Kentucky has erased a blot of shame from the record of what was laughably described as the...
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America’s Child Care Crisis: A Crime Prevention Tragedy
This report synthesizes five new studies of varying size and focus, all showing a strong correlation between quality educational child care and...
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Substance Abuse Treatment in Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Findings from the Uniform Facility Data Set, 1997 Survey of Correctional Facilities
This report presents the findings from a survey of all adult and juvenile correctional facilities nationwide regarding substance abuse treatment service provided...
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Research
Does CPS Lead to Incarceration?
Melissa Johnson-Reid and Richard Barth Child Abuse and Neglect, April 2000, Vol. 24, no. 4, pgs. 505-520 Free from Dr. Jonson-Reid, 1...
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News
Studies Slam Excessive Minority Lock-Ups, But Solutions Escape
A flurry of new reports charges that minority youth get unequal treatment in the criminal justice system – yet costly efforts over...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Columbine Reports Cite Media, Congress Culpability
On the first anniversary of the April 20, 1999 school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., a flurry of reports,...
