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26 Nov 2014, 9:50 am
Call-for-Papers: “LGBTQ Youth in the Juvenile Justice System” — The Journal of Gender, Social Policy, & the Law of American University Washington College of Law invites symposium papers from practitioners and scholars that examine the degree to which laws, practices, and social policy specifically funnel and entrench LGBTQ youth into the juvenile justice system. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 11:00 am
This past Tuesday, October 21, Inter-American Commissioner Rosa María Ortiz spoke at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver as part of a tour through the United States to learn about the U.S. juvenile justice system. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 4:04 pm
Cusack (Nova Southeastern University) has posted Kent Make-Up Their Minds: Juveniles, Mental Illness, and the Need for Continued Implementation of Therapeutic Justice within the Juvenile Justice and Criminal Justice Systems (American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy &... [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 5:55 am
Here is the abstract: The juvenile justice system fails to account for the... [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 2:13 pm
Two bills went into effect on January 1, 2019 specifically aimed at addressing some of the problems in the juvenile justice system. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 1:54 pm
Issues of racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparity in juvenile justice have been discussed and studied in juvenile justice systems across the country for decades, as federal juvenile justice funding for states has long been tied to their study. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 1:10 pm
The Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles convicted of murder suggests a shift in how the American judicial system views young felons. [read post]
13 Oct 2019, 10:58 am
Juveniles constitute 1,200 of the 1.5 million people housed in federal and state prisons in this country, and nearly 200,000 youth enter the adult criminal-justice system each year, most for non-violent crimes. [read post]
24 Sep 2018, 5:19 pm
GAO’s analysis showed several differences between Native American and non-Native American youth in the federal justice system. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 5:00 pm
There are also high statistics of racial injustice in the criminal justice system, making it 5 times more likely that an African American teen goes to jail if he commits the same crime as a white kid. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 4:00 am
Juvenile Justice Reform Mentally ill children who don't get help can end up in criminal justice system (Northwest Indiana Times) Parents, judges, prosecutors, and other officials in Indiana say there is a multi-agency failure to provide mental health services to the children who need it most. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 11:44 am
Two such scholars bring important new prospective to women’s legal history and are in dialogue with each other regarding the history of the juvenile justice system. [read post]
17 May 2012, 2:36 pm
And they also have really good ideas about how to improve the juvenile justice system. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 12:12 am
As Michelle Alexander has pointed out in The New Jim Crow, and as the Stanford study points out the number of African Americans in the criminal justice system way exceeds their number in society. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 4:32 am
Juvenile Crime Dips in Iowa (KCRG.com) Juvenile crime is down in Iowa and officials are crediting research and justice system alternatives. [read post]
19 Jan 2008, 7:22 am
Juvenile justice chief to lead state Corrections Department Gov. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 11:05 am
Missouri is changing the way it approaches rehabilitating teens in its juvenile justice system, and it’s working. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 5:23 pm
This Report by the Constitution Project and the National Legal Aid & Defender Association examines how the American justice system provides counsel in criminal and juvenile delinquency cases to individuals who cannot afford lawyers. [read post]
27 Nov 2020, 9:22 am
Criminal Justice System. [read post]
29 Aug 2022, 5:00 am
The child welfare and juvenile justice systems are both plagued by systemic and structural racism. [read post]
