Pastor Billy Kyles, asked to deliver the keynote address at this week’s National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention, talked to the audience...
Criminal drug courts, a 22-year-old strategy to keep low-level drug offenders out of the justice system, are not as effective as they...
[This article was reprinted with permission from the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange] Georgia is set to become the go-to state for delinquent...
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill on Friday to take to scale a long-running pilot project that provides youth-serving organizations with...
Child Trends Thirty-three social intervention programs were studied to conclude their effectiveness specifically on Latino/Hispanic children in a variety of categories. Overall,...
Child Trends This study examined findings from 53 random experimental evaluations of social intervention programs and their effects on African-American youth and...
Nearly half of the states who have not met federal requirements for their sex offender registries have a problem with the mandate...
The 2011 Continuing Resolution is now in the U.S. Senate for consideration, facing a March 4 deadline. Most observers predict a showdown...
Before the Super Bowl in Dallas, Harriet Boorhem, president of Promise House children’s shelter was contacted by the Dallas Police Department. Boorhem...
Well, here I sit at home once again as Mother Nature blows sleet and snow all over this totally unprepared city. Dallas...
Helping All of Our Homeless: Developing a Gay and Transgender Inclusive Federal Plan to End Homelessness Center for America Progress This study...
***Meetings on the Defending Childhood initiative took place this week among senior Justice officials and the eight sites selected to conduct demonstration...
On Wednesday, we ran the first part of Youth Today’s interview with former juvenile judge Irene Sullivan, author of the recently released...
Yesterday, Youth Today printed the first half of our interview with Irene Sullivan, a former Florida juvenile judge and author of the...
***The Justice Department issued proposed rules and standards this week for the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which was passed in 2003 to...
As all of you know, the Super Bowl is coming to Dallas. Well here’s a side to it that you never hear...
Pathological Video Game Use Among Youths: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study Pediatrics A large study of youths in Singapore led researchers to conclude...
Supporters and critics of “scared straight” programs – which generally entail youths visiting prisons and prisoners in hopes that the experience will...
Characteristics of Young Adult Sexual Relationships: Diverse, Sometimes Violent, Often Loving Child Trends Research Brief Data for this study was obtained from...
If hospital emergency room visits are any indication, prescription drugs are replacing illicit drugs as America’s preferred vice. A new government report...