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America’s youth confinement rate dropped across all racial and ethnic groups during the last decade - and by 40% overall.
This Article considers legislative decriminalization of juvenile misconduct, an underutilized method for juvenile justice reform (p. 5).
- This report will explore the process states took to raise their age of juvenile jurisdiction, and show how acts of legislation were part of a process to make the juvenile justice system more effective, fairer, and focused on keeping youth safe as they transition to adulthood (p. 14).
- The Standardized Program Evaluation Protocol (SPEP) is a validated, data driven rating scheme for determining how well an existing program or service matches the research evidence for the effectiveness of that particular type of intervention for reducing the recidivism of juvenile offenders.
This publication describes the eight essential elements of a trauma-informed juvenile justice system.
Presently, advocates for length of stay reform rely on two primary arguments: recidivism and costs of confinement.
In these records you will find the most recent and the most authoritative articles on the topics, people and events that are shaping the criminal justice conversation.
- These findings suggest that identifying and targeting youth who have multiple juvenile justice system contacts, especially those in low-resourced communities for early intervention services, may be beneficial.
- The Juvenile Justice Research-to-Practice Implementation Resources provide juvenile justice agency managers, staff, and other practitioners with concrete strategies, tools, examples, and best-practice models to help them implement research-based policies and practices and improve outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice system.
- This publication highlights California’s successful efforts to build public higher education access for thousands of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students, both in custody and on college campuses throughout the state.
This report summarizes psychological and neuroscientific evidence from 26 peer-reviewed studies.
- Researchers investigated whether youth possessed protective factors and whether developmental change took place after contact with the juvenile justice system.