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Models for Change Framework

Published Sep 30, 2003, Models for Change

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Identifies and describes eight core principles essential to a model juvenile justice system: fundamental fairness, recognition of juvenile-adult differences, recognition of individual differences, recognition of potential, safety, personal responsibility, community responsibility, and system responsibility.

Reform areas: Aftercare, Community-based alternatives/diversion, Evidence-based practices, Juvenile indigent defense, Mental/behavioral health, Racial-ethnic fairness/DMC

Categories: Initiative materials

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Uploaded Jan 13, 2009

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Models for Change was a juvenile justice systems reform initiative supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, website operated by Justice Policy Institute.

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