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  • Prison Health Care: Youthful Offenders Sentenced as Adults [Lesson Plans]

    Information and resources that address the unique challenges of providing health services to youthful offenders are provided through this 20-hour t

  • You're An Adult Now: Youth in Adult Criminal Justice Systems

    "It has been estimated that nearly 250,000 youth under age 18 end up in the adult criminal justice system every year.

  • PREA Youthful Inmate Implementation

    This web page provides information regarding the implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) “youthful inmate” standard.

  • Youthful Offenders - DC Public Safety Television

    If your organization is looking for strategies to meet the needs of youthful offenders, you need to watch this video.

  • Sam Survives [Graphic Novel]

    This publication is an excellent graphic novel for male youthful inmates, those under 18 years of age, which provides them vital information about

  • Positive Youth Justice Website

    This website "is designed to support and promote youth justice programs that are informed by the science of adolescent development.

  • What Works and What Doesn't in Reducing Recidivism with Youthful Offenders

    This is a great introduction about how to effectively reduce youthful offender recidivism. Topics discussed include:

  • Community-Based Responses to Justice-Involved Young Adults

    "This bulletin proposes a new criminal justice paradigm for young men and women ages 18 to 24.

  • Reducing Recidivism and Improving Other Outcomes for Young Adults in the Juvenile and Adult Criminal Justice Systems

    This brief, from the CSG Justice Center, is designed to help state and local officials better support young adults in the justice system.

  • Reducing Juvenile Recidivism Interactive Checklists

    "These interactive checklists can help state and local officials to assess whether their juvenile justice system’s policies and practices are align

  • From Evidence-Based Practices to a Comprehensive Intervention Model for High-Risk Young Men: The Story of Roca (2017)

    Researchers of criminal behavior are taking a more data-driven approach to community corrections.

  • Youth Residing in Juvenile Detention, Correctional and/or Residential Facilities by Race and Hispanic Origin (2017)

    Although the United States still leads the industrialized world in the rate at which it locks up young people, the youth confinement rate in the US

  • Youth Residing in Juvenile Detention, Correctional and/or Residential Facilities (2017)

    Although the United States still leads the industrialized world in the rate at which it locks up young people, the youth confinement rate in the US

  • Factors Related to Recidivism for Youthful Offenders (2013)

    Little is known about youth who were previously placed in a detention facility and what factors predict a subsequent recidivism to placement.

  • Reducing Recidivism and Improving Other Outcomes for Young Adults in the Juvenile and Adult Criminal Justice Systems (2015)

    This brief, from the CSG Justice Center, is designed to help state and local officials better support young adults in the justice system.

  • Community-Based Responses to Justice-Involved Young Adults (2015)

    In this paper, [the authors] propose a different kind of criminal justice for young men and women.

  • Improving Approaches to Serving Young Adults in the Justice System (2016)

    The key theme that emerged from JPI’s convening of stakeholders to discuss better ways of working with young adults, is that if a more effective an

  • Dos and Don’ts for Reducing Recidivism Among Young Adults in the Justice System (2017)

    This resource presents a concrete list of dos and don’ts that policymakers and justice system leaders can use to guide policy and practice changes

  • Programs and Legislation Targeting Justice-Involved Young Adults (2016)

    This website provides access to the report and webinar, both entitled, "Environmental Scan of Criminal Justice Responses to Justice-Involved Young

  • Youthful Offenders in the Federal System (2017)

    Although youthful offenders account for about 18 percent of all federal offenders sentenced between fiscal years 2010 and 2015, there is little cur

  • Emerging Adults: A Distinct Population that Calls for an Age-Appropriate Approach by the Justice System (2017)

    The brief defines emerging adults as the group of individuals transitioning from childhood to adulthood that, despite facing the worst criminal jus

  • Youth Incarceration in the United States, Explained (2017)

    Legal distinctions related to age provide a unique hurdle for young people in the penal system, who face restrictive rights based on their age in a