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- This groundbreaking study provides data for the first time revealing that adults surveyed view Black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than white girls of the same age, especially between 5-14 years old (p. 2).
- The author examines the role that developmental science, and, especially, developmental neuroscience, has played in this policy transformation.
- The Standardized Program Evaluation Protocol (SPEP) is a system that rates the potential for therapeutic services to reduce recidivism among youth, by comparing programs to what prior evaluation has shown to be effective.
- This report highlights the data on girls in the juvenile justice system and the trauma that often leads them there, examines the effect the juvenile justice system has on girls and their access to education, and offers recommendations to avoid placing girls in the juvenile justice system and instead help them receive the educational and other services they need (p. 1).
- In today’s climate of increased immigration enforcement, U.S. juvenile justice officials must learn how local immigration policies - or a lack thereof - can seriously and negatively impact the lives of noncitizen youth. This guide, which highlights recent policy changes affecting youth in the juvenile justice system, is a great place to start.
Delivering reentry services to youth proves challenging. This brief describes the implementation and sustainability of two Juvenile Second Chance Act reentry programs in Oklahoma and Virginia.
This brief describes the principles of sex-responsive programs, summarizes the literature, and presents highlights of MDRC’s implementation study of PACE Center for Girls.
In five years, the Close to Home Initiative has transformed the experience of youth who come into contact with the justice system in New York City.
- The goal of JJRRI was to bring evidence and best practices to bear on juvenile justice operations.
Crime, victimization, and justice system responses greatly affect the life prospects of the most vulnerable Great Lakes youth, restricting their access to ladders of opportunity.
This report describes the implementation of PACE at the 14 centers that are participating in the evaluation.
- This literature review will focus on the scope of mental health problems of at-risk and justice-involved youths; the impact of mental health on justice involvement as well as the impact of justice involvement on mental health; disparities in mental health treatment in the juvenile justice system; and evidence-based programs that have been shown to improve outcomes for youths with mental health issues (p. 1)