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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist

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

Pathological Video Game Use Among Youths: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study Pediatrics A large study of youths in Singapore led researchers to conclude...

News

New ‘Scared Straight’ Series Backs Discredited Strategy

Supporters and critics of “scared straight” programs – which generally entail youths visiting prisons and prisoners in hopes that the experience will...

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Characteristics of Young Adult Sexual Relationship

Characteristics of Young Adult Sexual Relationships: Diverse, Sometimes Violent, Often Loving Child Trends Research Brief Data for this study was obtained from...

News

ER Visits Increase for Prescription Drug Use

If hospital emergency room visits are any indication, prescription drugs are replacing illicit drugs as America’s preferred vice. A new government report...

Weekly Notes: Walsh guidelines are finalized, a new fed council on reentry, and more

Hope everyone out there in juvenile justice land had a wonderful start to 2011! Rumors of Weekly Notes’ demise have been greatly...

News

Researchers Find ‘Discrepancies’ in Youths’ Self-reported Sexual Behavior

Association between Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Young Adults’ Self-reported Abstinence Pediatrics Self-reported sexual behavior – the lodestar of much research on teens’...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Sex: A Book for Teens: An Uncensored Guide to Your Body, Sex, and Safety

Sex: A Book for Teens: An Uncensored Guide to Your Body, Sex, and SafetyNikol HaslerZest Books/Orange Avenue Publishing192 pages. Aimed at ages...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Are You Living an Upside-Down Life? Book 5 in the Arise-Sprouts Teen Pregnancy Awareness Series

Are You Living an Upside-Down Life? Book 5 in the Arise-Sprouts Teen Pregnancy Awareness SeriesArise Foundation116 pages. This fifth and final book...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Gloucester 18: The Realities of Teen Pregnancy

The Gloucester 18: The Realities of Teen PregnancyDirected by John Michael Williams; produced by Kristen GriecoMedia Education Foundation67 minutes. DVD: $195 college...

2011 Could Be Big Year for Some Juvenile Drug Treatment Programs

We might be reading the tea leaves too much here, but it seems that multiple factors may align to spur an investment...

News

Task Force on LGBT Youth Suicide Prevention Announced

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth are the target of a new task force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention,...

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Substance Use and Delinquent Behavior Among Serious Adolescent Offenders

Data from the Justice Department’s long-term Pathways to Desistance study do not establish a causal link between serious juvenile offending and substance...

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How to Improve Mental Health Care for LGBT Youth: Recommendations for the Department of Health and Human Services

Center for American Progress This paper shows that despite the recently highly publicized suicides of gay teens, their deaths do not mark...

Walsh Act Watch: The Pseudo-Extension (Updated)

Note: This piece was corrected on December 16 to clarify that the legislation, not the Department of Justice, is responsible for the...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

More Teens Smoke Marijuana than Cigarettes

For the second year in a row, more teens reported using marijuana in the past 30 days than the number that reported...

Weekly Notes: Walsh Act, NYC sues NY, and finally a nominee for…Bureau of Justice Assistance

***There is still no nominee to lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Everything we have heard points to Massachusetts...

A Sad Situation from Rural America We Cannot Ignore

Over the past few months we’ve seen plenty of news stories about celebrities going in and out of jail and fed-up flight...

Weekly Notes: Looming SORNA deadline; Juvenile services secretary steps down

***States have until July to pass legislation that establishes a federally-compliant sex offender database; look for those conversations to start in earnest...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier