Adolescent development
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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…
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The Supreme Court and the Transformation of Juvenile Sentencing
- Sep 30, 2015, Elizabeth Scott
- 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…
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2014 Issue Brief: Aftercare Services are Key to Positive Community Adjustment
- Dec 8, 2014, Models for Change Resource Center Partnership
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For young offenders who, for public safety reasons, cannot remain in the community, placement is still more than mere punishment. It is also an opportunity to provide services that address…
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2014 Issue Brief: Give Adolescents the Time and Skills to Mature, and Most Offenders Will Stop
- Dec 8, 2014, Models for Change Resource Center Partnership
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Pathways to Desistance, a major, long-term study of serious juvenile offenders, has shown that:
Adolescents, including serious juvenile offenders, naturally mature—psychologically,…
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2014 Issue Brief: To Decrease Juvenile Offending, Make Effective Drug Treatment a Priority
- Dec 8, 2014, Models for Change Resource Center Partnership
- Substance use is prevalent among juvenile offenders, and predicts both continued offending and a less successful transition to adulthood. Yet many juvenile offenders with drug problems go untreated.…
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2014 Issue Brief: Programs that Promote Positive Development Can Help Young Offenders Grow Up and Out of Crime
- Dec 8, 2014, Models for Change Resource Center Partnership
- Serious juvenile offenders, like other young people, have the potential for growth and change. Multiple studies have shown that maturity and reduced offending are closely intertwined. The question…
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2014 Knowledge Brief: Perceptions and Outcomes in Adolescent Confinement
- Dec 8, 2014, Models for Change Resource Center Partnership
- While the content of programming in juvenile facilities has been the subject of much study, there has been less work on the broader “institutional environment” and its effect on outcomes.…
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2014 Issue Brief: To Monitor Changing Risks and Needs, Repeat Assessment of Young Offenders Over Time
- Dec 8, 2014, Models for Change Resource Center Partnership
- Valid, practical screening and assessment tools are now available to evaluate juvenile offenders’ risks for future criminal involvement and their case management needs. Analyses from the…
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2014 Issue Brief: Smarter Use of Placement Can Improve Outcomes for Youth and Communities
- Dec 8, 2014, Models for Change Resource Center Partnership
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Because institutional placement is likely to remain in use, especially for serious or chronic offenders, juvenile justice systems need to understand its effects and how to use it to improve…
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The Fourth Wave: Juvenile Justice Reforms for the Twenty-First Century
- Dec 15, 2013, National Campaign to Reform State Juvenile Justice Systems
- The Fourth Wave: Juvenile Justice Reforms for the 21st Century takes a comprehensive look at the evolution of juvenile justice reform efforts over the past century and highlights the current wave of…
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The National Campaign to Reform State Juvenile Justice Systems: Report on 2013 Activities
- Dec 1, 2013, The National Campaign to Reform State Juvenile Justice Systems
- 2013 was the third year of the National Campaign to Reform State Juvenile Justice Systems. Building on a successful track record, the Campaign assisted 18 state initiatives, supporting 46 bills as…
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Research on Pathways to Desistance: December 2012 Update
- Nov 30, 2012, Carol Schubert
- This brief reports on four key findings: • The majority of young, serious offenders do not make a career of crime, and the original crime is not a good predictor of future patterns of offending;…
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Emerging Findings and Policy Implications from the Pathways to Desistance Study
- Sep 11, 2012, National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN)
- The Pathways to Desistance study is a large, multi-site, collaborative project that followed over 1,300 youth ages 14-18 for seven years after their convictions for serious offenses. This fact sheet…
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Pathways to Desistance Talking Points
- Jan 28, 2010, National Juvenile Justice Network
- New Research Shows Community-Based Alternatives as Effective as Institutional Placements for Curbing Re-arrest in Youth with Serious Offenses Findings from a longitudinal study on serious youth…
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Research on Pathways to Desistance
- Dec 9, 2009, Research Update Created for the Fourth Annual Models for Change National Working Conference
- Juveniles can commit serious and sometimes violent offenses, from felony burglary to murder.. But only a minority of these serious offenders will go on to a lifetime of repeated crime; the rest will…