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Rethinking Juvenile Detention in New York City
Publication year:
2002
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Due to the "unnecessarily punitive and wasteful" juvenile detention policies and practices of this agency, "[p]romising models from other jurisdictions [that] provide concrete strategies on how the city can reorient its juvenile justice policies and reduce the overuse of secure detention" are presented (p. i). Sections of this report include: executive summary; introduction; the problem; the solutions; larger policy considerations; and recommendations. Appendixes include charts regarding: an overview of juvenile justice system processing; New York City neighborhoods with the highest number of youth admitted to secure detention; and Cook County's juvenile detention alternatives continuum.