Youth Today
All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"
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1.9K► ReportsHuman Rights Protections for Children in the U.S. Justice System – 2020 National State Ratings Report
Human Rights for Kids takes a comprehensive look at the basic legal framework protecting the rights of justice-involved youth across the country...
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1.4K► ReportsYouth Justice Under the Coronavirus: Linking Public Health Protections with the Movement for Youth Decarceration
A new report from the Sentencing Project discusses how the juvenile justice system has responded to COVID-19 and makes a number of...
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1.1K► ReportsRethinking the Role of the Juvenile Justice System: Improving Youth’s School Attendance and Educational Outcomes
This new brief from the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center discusses findings from an unprecedented research study on the impact...
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1.4K► ReportsThe Latinx Data Gap in the Youth Justice System
A new report analyzes racial and ethnic data at state-level youth justice agencies, documenting how inconsistent data categories and reporting result in...
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2.3K► ReportsEvaluating the Implementation of Raise the Age in New York City
The Youth Justice Research Collaborative releases a policy brief outlining how Raise the Age has been implemented in NYC since being signed...
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2.0K► ReportsLabeled for Life: A Review of Youth Sex Offender Registration Laws
The Juvenile Law Center publishes a comprehensive review of youth sex offender registration laws around the country, discussing how harmful and ineffective...
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1.8K► ReportsExpand the Use of Diversion From the Juvenile Justice System
The Annie E. Casey foundation makes the case for significant expansion of the use of diversion to avoid formally prosecuting low-risk juvenile...
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1.6KNewsLas Cruces Caseworker Helping Youth Who Have Aged Out of Care Plus the System-involved
Transitioning out of juvenile justice is already laborious for many young people. It’s infinitely more difficult during a global pandemic. “They’re literally...
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2.1K► ReportsA Guide to Community Strategies for Improving Emerging Adults’ Safety and Well-Being
The Urban Institute releases a guide which brings together research on the unique needs of emerging adults and outlines the best strategies...
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2.0K► ReportsSexual Victimization Reported By Youth in Juvenile Facilities, 2018
The Bureau of Justice statistics releases the most current figures on youth-reported instances of sexual victimization during incarceration at juvenile detention facilities...
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2.5K► ReportsJuvenile Arrests, 2017
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) discusses the latest data and trends involving arrests of juveniles across the country....
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3.3K► NewsmakersSarah Bryer, National Juvenile Justice Network Exec. Dir., Steps Down after 14 Years
Sarah Bryer, executive director of the National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) since its inception in 2005, recently announced that she is leaving...
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2.3K► NewsmakersJohn Etchemendy Named Family Violence & Domestic Relations Program Dir. at NCJFCJ
John D. Etchemendy is the new director of the family violence and domestic relations program at the National Council of Juvenile and...
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4.6K► ReportsGirls in the Juvenile Justice System
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention uses data from three different national collections to provide a summary of the current...
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2.3K► NewsmakersSPLC Names Karen Baynes-Dunning Interim President and CEO
Karen Baynes-Dunning is the interim president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after its board voted unanimously to name...
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1.8K► ReportsPromoting a New Direction for Youth Justice: Strategies to Fund a Community-Based Continuum of Care and Opportunity
The Urban Institute identifies and discusses proven, effective and innovative strategies for investment in community-based programs and tools to help justice-involved youth...
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1.7K► ReportsCollaborating for Successful Reentry: A Guide to Support Justice-Involved Young People Returning to the Community
The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice provides a comprehensive reentry guide for juvenile justice and social service practitioners which offers information...
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4.1K► ReportsCops and No Counselors: How the Lack of School Mental Health Staff Is Harming Students
The ACLU takes a look at newly released Dept. of Education data showing the numbers of social workers, nurses, and psychologists in...
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2.8K► NewsmakersGalit Lipa Joins Public Welfare Foundation as Youth Justice Program Director
Galit Lipa recently joined the Public Welfare Foundation as its new youth justice program director. She will now lead its youth justice...
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2.7KNews2008 Recession Helped Create Many More Homeless Youth, Expert Says
Medical sociologist Eric Wright’s work has taken him into parks, abandoned buildings, shelters and other places off the beaten path.
