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Issue Brief: Alternatives to Arrest for Young People: Dec 15, 2015, National League of Cities; NLC's issue brief provides early examples of how law enforcement agencies can divert youth accused of minor offenses from arrest when appropriate. Through the increased use of promising alternatives…
Key Questions Judges Can Ask: Dec 15, 2015, Council of State Governments Justice Center; Identifies the 10 key questions juvenile court judges should ask to determine whether court practices support improved outcomes for youth. Judges can also use this interactive checklist to learn more…
The Pennsylvania Juvenile Collateral Consequences Checklist: Dec 15, 2015, Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation; This Checklist was developed with assistance from the MacArthur Foundation Juvenile Indigent Defense Action Network to help to explain many of the consequences of being arrested as a juvenile in…
Pennsylvania Juvenile Collateral Consequences Checklist (Spanish): Dec 15, 2015, Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation; This Checklist was developed with assistance from the MacArthur Foundation Juvenile Indigent Defense Action Network to help to explain many of the consequences of being arrested as a juvenile in…
Massachusetts Arrest Screening Tool for Law Enforcement: Dec 15, 2015, University of Massachusetts Medical School; The Massachusetts Arrest Screening Tool for Law Enforcement (MASTLE) is an objective screening tool validated in Massachusetts jurisdictions that assesses the likelihood a youth taken into police…
New Jersey Juvenile Collateral Consequences Checklist: Dec 15, 2015, National Juvenile Defender Center; The purpose of the New Jersey Juvenile Collateral Consequences Checklist is to provide attorneys, judges, and other juvenile justice professionals, in addition to youth and their families, with the…
County Leadership in Juvenile Justice Reform: Case Study: Dec 15, 2015, National Association of Counties; County governments are uniquely positioned to be leaders in the juvenile justice field and have a dramatic impact on the lives of their young residents, families and the broader community. These case…
NJDC Summaries: DOJ Actions in Protecting System-Involved Youth: Dec 15, 2015, National Juvenile Defender Center; NJDC's summaries provide key highlights of prominent Department of Justice actions in protecting the rights of youth involved in the juvenile justice system. The summaries cover DOJ's Statement of…
Spanish Language Philadelphia Juvenile Admission Colloquy: Dec 15, 2015, Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation; Through the Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation, the Philadelphia written admission colloquy was translated into Spanish to encourage linguistic equity and competency for all youth and…
Key Steps Policymakers Can Take to Improve Outcomes for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Dec 15, 2015, Council of State Governments Justice Center; Identifies the 3 key steps that policymakers can take to increase public safety, improve youth outcomes, and maximize the efficient use of resources. Policymakers can also use this interactive…
Protecting Youth Confined for Profit: Policy Safeguards: Dec 15, 2015, National Juvenile Justice Network; NJJN opposes the use of for-profit private youth confinement facilities because they encourage the incarceration of youth and the elimination of services youth need to succeed; and they are morally…
Identifying Dual Status Youth with Trauma-Related Problems: Dec 15, 2015, RFK National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice; How would an agency put in place a way to identify dual status youths’ trauma-related needs? That is the question addressed in this second brief in a series on trauma-related procedures for…
Improving Youth Outcomes, Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice 2015 Operating Plan Summary: Dec 15, 2015, Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice; To help fulfill the Department's mission and to direct its actions, the agency developed and is now implementing a comprehensive operating plan for 2015. The Operating Plan was the result of a…
Pennsylvania DMC Youth Law Enforcement Corporation Brochure: Dec 15, 2015, Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation; This brochure describes the history, mission, and efforts of the Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation in eliminate the over-representation of youth of color in the Pennsylvania juvenile…
Statewide Risk Assessment in Juvenile Probation: Dec 15, 2015, National Center for Juvenile Justice; This StateScan publication released for the project addresses the prevalence of risk assessment tools in juvenile probation. This is the first time NCJJ has conducted a scan of risk assessment…
Juvenile Justice Agency Leaders and Managers Checklist: Dec 15, 2015, Council of State Governments Justice Center; Provides a comprehensive online assessment and scoring tool to enable agency leaders to identify system strengths, areas for improvement, and develop an action plan to improve outcomes for youth.
Arrests of Young Adults in Illinois, CY2013: Dec 15, 2015, Juvenile Justice Initiative; Research shows that the adolescent brain does not fully develop until age 25, yet people are criminalized as adults after age 16 or 17. In order to explore young adults in conflict with the law, JJI…
Respecting Differences: A DMC Newsletter Summer 2015: Dec 15, 2015, Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation; A quarterly newsletter from the Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation on developments in the effort to end racial and ethnic disparities in the Pennsylvania juvenile justice system.
Respecting Differences: A DMC Newsletter Winter 2014: Dec 15, 2015, Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation; A quarterly newsletter from the Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation on developments in the effort to end racial and ethnic disparities in the Pennsylvania juvenile justice system.
Youth Justice Leadership Institute: Outcomes: Dec 15, 2015, National Juvenile Justice Network; Although the brunt of the harmful practices in our youth justice system are borne by youth of color, reform leaders do not always reflect the affected population. NJJN's Youth Justice Leadership…
The Adolescent Domestic Battery Typology Tool: Executive Summary: Dec 15, 2015, Northeast DuPage Family and Youth Services; There has been an increase in the number of youth referred to the juvenile justice system for charges related to abusing their parents. The Adolescent Domestic Battery Typologies Tool was developed…
School Discipline Consensus Report: Strategies from the Field to Keep Students Engaged in School and Out of the Juvenile Justice System: Dec 15, 2015, Council of State Governments Justice Center; This report presents a comprehensive set of consensus-based and field-driven recommendations to improve conditions for learning for all students and educators, better support students with behavioral…
Notes from the Field: Newtown County, GA: Dec 15, 2015, Vera Institute of Justice; This profile describes the development of the Truancy Intervention Board in Newton County, GA. This Board aims to divert youth away from the formal court process by addressing problems of truancy…
The “Becca Bill” 20 Years Later: How Washington’s Truancy Laws Negatively Impact Children: Dec 15, 2015, Vera Institute of Justice; The Becca laws have made Washington State the country’s foremost jailer of children for “status offenses” like skipping school. It allows parents to use legal petitions called ARY…
Lessons from Five Years of Accelerating Change: Dec 14, 2015, National Campaign to Reform State Juvenile Justice Systems; After two decades of funding cutting-edge research on adolescent behavioral and brain development and pioneering new juvenile justice practice models, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur…
Fact Sheet on Automatic Transfer Bill from Spring, 2015: Dec 14, 2015, Juvenile Justice Initiative; Fact sheet on HB3718 SA1, a bill related to automatic transfer that summarizes the need for the reform, what the bill does and does not do and the list of supporters of the bill.
Philadelphia Juvenile Treatment Court Student Handbook (Spanish): Dec 14, 2015, Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation; The Spanish language translation of the Philadelphia Juvenile Treatment Court Student Handbook, a guide to the policies of treatment court for youth and families.
Sustaining Momentum Assessing and Mitigating Threats to the Fourth Wave of Juvenile Justice Reform: Dec 14, 2015, Models for Change; Fourth Wave reform has made remarkable progress in the past two decades so that juvenile justice looks much different today than it did in the 1990s. There is still work to do, but the reform has…
Standing Up to Sexual Misconduct: An Advocacy Toolkit to End the Sexual Abuse of Children in Juvenile Facilities: Dec 11, 2015, Center for Children's Law and Policy; This toolkit is designed to equip advocates with the knowledge, tools, and resources to promote practices that will help end the sexual abuse and harassment of children in juvenile justice…
Campaign Against Indiscriminate Juvenile Shackling Toolkit: Dec 11, 2015, National Juvenile Defender Center; The Campaign Against Indiscriminate Juvenile Shackling (CAIJS), created in August 2014, works across the country to support advocates in their efforts to amend laws, court rules, policies and…
Policy Statement on Indiscriminate Shackling of Juveniles in Court: Dec 11, 2015, National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice; The National Center of Mental Health and Juvenile Justice (NCMHJJ) strongly opposes the automatic or widespread shackling of youth appearing in court. The NCMHJJ holds that no youth should be…
Juvenile Justice in a Developmental Framework: A 2015 Status Report: Dec 11, 2015, Models for Change; Advances in the understanding of adolescent development have provided a foundation for progress in juvenile justice reform, including changes in state legislation. In accord with the Supreme…
Champions for Change Awards Program 2015: Dec 8, 2015, Models for Change; Champions for Change are individuals working with Models for Change who have positively affected the lives of justice-involved youth, their families, and communities. Champions have helped pave the…
Detention Bill Fact Sheet: Dec 1, 2015, Justice Policy Institute; Fact sheet related to a bill regarding keeping young children (ages 10-12) out of detention. Addresses need for reform, what the bill does and research related to harmful effects of detention on…
Massachusetts Arrest Screening Tool for Law Enforcement Executive Summary: Nov 17, 2015, University of Massachusetts Medical School; The MASTLE assesses the likelihood a youth taken into police custody for a criminal offense will be arrested for the commission of another offense in the future or will fail to appear for…
LOCKED OUT: Improving Educational and Vocational Outcomes for Incarcerated Youth: Nov 9, 2015, Council of State Governments Justice Center; To understand the extent to which states provide incarcerated youth with access to educational and vocational services; track and use student outcome data, and support school reenrollment for these…
Reducing Recidivism and Improving Other Outcomes for Young Adults in the Juvenile and Adult Criminal Justice Systems: Nov 9, 2015, Council of State Governments Justice Center; Researchers focused on brain development have found that 18- to 24-year-olds—also referred to as young adults — stand out as a distinct developmental group with heightened impulsive…
Trends in Juvenile Justice State Legislation 2011-2015: Oct 12, 2015, Sarah Alice Brown; In the past five years, juvenile justice reform legislation in the United States has grown at a remarkable pace. The recent shift in juvenile justice policy marks a clear departure from laws enacted…
School Discipline & Security Personnel: A Tip Sheet for Advocates on Maximizing School Safety and Student Success: Oct 5, 2015, National Juvenile Justice Network; School resource officers tend to criminalize normal adolescent behavior and disproportionately impact youth of color, contributing to racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system. This tip…
The Supreme Court and the Transformation of Juvenile Sentencing: Sep 30, 2015, Elizabeth Scott, Thomas Grisso, Marsha Levick, and Laurence Steinberg; In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime regulation. In three strongly worded opinions, the Court held that imposing harsh criminal…
Overview Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Transformation of Juvenile Sentencing: Sep 30, 2015, Elizabeth Scott, Thomas Grisso, Marsha Levick, and Laurence Steinberg; Three United States Supreme Court decisions of the past decade have delineated the principle that children are developmentally different from adults in ways that matter for the fair punishment of…
Practitioner Brief: Applying a Developmental Framework to Juvenile Sentencing-What Forensic Experts and Attorneys Should Know: Sep 30, 2015, Elizabeth Scott, Thomas Grisso, Marsha Levick, and Laurence Steinberg; Recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court have severely restricted the use of life without parole for juvenile offenders (JLWOP). Affirming the principle that children are developmentally…
Confining Youth for Profit: Sep 14, 2015, National Juvenile Justice Network; In this publication, NJJN's member organizations (in 40 states) recommend ending the use of for-profit private youth confinement facilities of all kinds because they encourage the incarceration of…
U.S. Age Boundaries of Delinquency: Aug 14, 2015, Angel Zang; This StateScan publication is the 8th in a series that distills knowledge from NCJJ’s Juvenile Justice Geography, Policy, Practice & Statistics website. The publication summarizes the…
Racial and Ethnic Fairness in Juvenile Justice: Availability of State Data: Aug 7, 2015, Lauren Vessels, Research Assistant, NCJJ; NCJJ has released a new StateScan publication that summarizes the results from a review of publicly available data that describe racial and ethnic fairness across the country. This StateScan…
Respecting Differences: A DMC Newsletter Autumn 2015: Aug 3, 2015, Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation; A quarterly newsletter from the Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation on developments in the effort to end racial and ethnic disparities in the Pennsylvania juvenile justice system.
Indefensible: The Lack of Juvenile Defense Data: Jul 23, 2015, Andrew Wachter, Research Associate, NCJJ; NCJJ has released a new StateScan publication that summarizes the results from a review of publicly available data that describe the application of juvenile defense across the country. This StateScan…
Measuring Subsequent Offending in Juvenile Probation: Jul 23, 2015, Teri Deal, Anne Rackow, Andrew Wachter, NCJJ Research Associates; NCJJ has released a new StateScan publication that summarizes the results of a review of publicly available recidivism reports that include measures of recidivism for youth adjudicated to probation.…
Snapshot: Using Re-entry Thinking to Guide Placement: May 13, 2015, National Juvenile Justice Network; When youth are confined or put in placement, it jeopardizes connections they need to re-enter society successfully: this snapshot summarizes key recommendations from the Juvenile Justice Resrource…
Caring for Youth with Mental Health Needs in the Juvenile Justice System: Improving Knowledge and Skills: May 7, 2015, Fred Meservey, LMSW and Kathleen R. Skowyra, NCMHJJ/Collaborative for Change; Approximately two-thirds of youth in the care of the juvenile justice system have a diagnosable mental health and/or substance use disorder. Too frequently, staff supervising these youth have…
Mental Health Screening in Juvenile Justice Services: May 5, 2015, Andrew Wachter, Research Associate, NCJJ; This StateScan publication is the 4th in a series that distills important knowledge from NCJJ’s new Juvenile Justice Geography, Policy, Practice and Statistics website. The author, Andrew…
When Systems Collaborate: How Three Jurisdictions Improved their Handling of Dual-Status Cases: Apr 22, 2015, Douglas Thomas et al. NCJJ Senior Research Associate; When Systems Collaborate (19 pages) provides case studies of three jurisdictions trying to coordinate information and services to youth with dual-status in both the juvenile justice and child welfare…
State of the State: At Risk Youth in Louisiana: Apr 15, 2015, Stephen Phillippi, PhD, Institute for Public Health and Justice; Presentation from the 2nd Annual Louisiana Child Well-Being Summit, Baton Rouge, LA April 2015
Diverting Youth at Probation Intake: The Front-End Diversion Initiative: Apr 8, 2015, Erin Espinosa, Ph.D., Kathleen R. Skowyra; This Research and Program Brief describes the Front End Diversion Initiative, which is a probation-intake based diversion program for youth with specific mental health conditions that grew out of the…
Young Adults in Conflict with the Law: Opportunities for Diversion: Feb 9, 2015, Kanako Ishida, Juvenile Justice Initiative; While in most states (including Illinois) young people are treated as adults by the justice system once they turn 18, research in recent years suggests that people ages 18 – 24 are not yet…
A Better Way to Do Business: Changing Organizational Culture to Promote Integrated Service Delivery in Child Protection and Juvenile Justice Systems: Jan 14, 2015, Mark Mertens and Melissa Blom; A Better Way to Do Business: Changing Organizational Culture to Promote Integrated Service Delivery in Child Protection and Juvenile Justice Systems, is the inaugural Practice Brief published by the…
Trauma in Dual Status Youth: Putting Things In Perspective: Jan 13, 2015, Thomas Grisso, PhD and Gina Vincent, PhD; This article is the first in a series on trauma-related procedures for use with dual status youth—children and adolescents who come into contact with both child welfare and juvenile justice…
Closer to Home: An Analysis of the State and Local Impact of the Texas Juvenile Justice Reforms: Jan 8, 2015, Council of State Governments Justice Center, Public Policy Research Institute; The report provides the first comprehensive statewide study on the impact of reforms enacted in Texas since 2007 and provides insight into what is happening to kids amid a trend the majority of…
Juvenile Justice Reform: County Leadership Roles and Opportunities: Dec 29, 2014, National Association of Counties; This report details why it is important to improve juvenile justice systems and how county governments can lead improvement efforts in their role as primary local providers of health, justice and…
Data Planning in the Dual Status Youth Initiatives: Initial Suggestions: Dec 12, 2014, Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice; This article is targeted to help jurisdictions more effectively and efficiently collect, report and manage data related to dual status youth. The article provides a helpful data construct to support…
Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2014 National Report: Dec 12, 2014, Melissa Sickmund and Charles Puzzanchera, National Center for Juvenile Justice; This report consists of the most requested information on juveniles and the juvenile justice system in the U.S. Developed by the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) for the Office of Juvenile…
Dependency and Delinquency in SYNC (Serving Youth in Newton County, Georgia): Dec 11, 2014, RFK National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice; Youth who touch both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, known as dual status youth, present complex, resource-intensive cases and tend to experience poor outcomes. A new report,…
Philadelphia Juvenile Expungement Access for Youth: Dec 10, 2014, Pennsylvania DMC Youth-Law Enforcement Corporation; This card provides information and access in the Spanish language for youth and families on the expungement process in Philadelphia. The Juvenile Unit of the Defender Association of Philadelphia…
SORC Toolkit Module 4: Monitoring and Sustaining System Change: Dec 8, 2014, Vera Institute of Justice; Monitoring and Sustaining System Change describes three common strategies for evaluating reform efforts: (1) performance monitoring, (2) process evaluations, and (3) outcome evaluations. Because…
Law Enforcement's Leadership Role in Juvenile Justice Reform: Actionable Recommendations for Practice & Policy: Dec 8, 2014, International Association of Chiefs of Police; IACP's National Summit on Law Enforcement Leadership in Juvenile Justice drew attention to law enforcement executives' potential to lead juvenile justice reforms in their agencies, communities and…
Washington State Mental Health Diversion Guidebook: Dec 1, 2014, University of Washington and the Center for Children & Youth Justice; This guidebook presents a number of policies and programs occurring within Washington State that are bridging services between the judicial system and the community to serve youth with mental health…
Measuring and Using Juvenile Recidivism Data to Inform Policy, Practice, and Resource Allocation: Jul 28, 2014, Council of State Governments Justice Center; Juvenile arrest rates, including for violent crimes, fell by approximately 50 percent from 1997 to 2011, to their lowest level in more than 30 years. In combination with this sharp drop in arrests,…
Core Principles for Reducing Recidivism and Improving Other Outcomes for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Jul 28, 2014, Council of State Governments Justice Center: Elizabeth Seigle, Nastassia Walsh, Josh Weber; This white paper is written to guide leaders across all branches of government; juvenile justice system administrators, managers, and front-line staff; and researchers, advocates, and other…
From Conversation to Collaboration: How Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Agencies Can Work Together to Improve Outcomes for Dual Status Youth: May 8, 2014, RFK National Resource Center for Juvenile Jusitce; Dual status youth cross the agency lines of the juvenile justice and child welfare systems, yet the agencies do not always communicate or collaborate on plans to serve the youth. Research and…
SORC Toolkit Module 3: Planning and Implementing System Change: Apr 30, 2014, Status Offense Reform Center, Vera Institute of Justice; Toolkit for Status Offense System Reform Transforming a juvenile justice oriented status offense system – one that is likely complex and has been in place for decades – into one that is…
SORC Toolkit Module 1: Structuring System Change: Mar 19, 2014, Status Offense Reform Center, Vera Institute of Justice; Toolkit for Status Offense System Reform Transforming a juvenile justice oriented status offense system – one that is likely complex and has been in place for decades – into one that…
SORC Toolkit Module 2: Using Local Information to Guide System Change: Mar 19, 2014, Status Offense Resource Center, Vera Institute of Justice; Toolkit for Status Offense System Reform Transforming a juvenile justice oriented status offense system – one that is likely complex and has been in place for decades – into one that…
Law Enforcement's Leadership Role in the Advancement of Promising Practices in Juvenile Justice: Executive Officer Survey Findings: Dec 8, 2013, International Association of Chiefs of Police; IACP conducted a national survey of more than 900 law enforcement executives to assess the current state of attitudes, knowledge and practices regarding how law enforcement agencies deal with…
Dual Status Youth – Technical Assistance Workbook: Dec 1, 2013, John A. Tuell, Jessica K. Heldman, and Janet K. Wiig; “Dual status youth” refers to juveniles who come into contact with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and occupy various statuses in terms of their relationship to the…
Probation Review Implementation: How Best Practices Meet Everyday Practices: Nov 15, 2013, Dr. John S. Ryals, Jr.; Through support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana undertook a comprehensive Probation Review…
Juvenile Court Statistics 2013: Jul 1, 2013, National Center for Juvenile Justice; Juvenile Court Statistics 2013 draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile nearly 1.1 million delinquency cases and 109,000 petitioned status offense cases…
Measurable Progress: A Summary of Illinois Juvenile Justice Reforms: Oct 1, 2012, Various; This report summarizes some of the key changes in juvenile justice law, policy and practice that have taken place in Illinois during the period 2005 – 2012. These changes have accelerated over…
BREAKING SCHOOLS' RULES: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students’ Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement: Jul 7, 2011, Council of State Governments Justice Center; The CSG Justice Center, in partnership with the Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University, has released a groundbreaking statewide study of nearly 1 million Texas public secondary…
Guidebook for Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare System Coordination and Integration: Dec 8, 2008, Child Welfare League of America, Janet Wiig, with John A. Tuell (revised in 2008); Built from years of collaborative expertise and experience, the newly revised Guidebook for Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare System Coordination and Integration: A Framework for Improved Outcomes…

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