This brief report highlights state variations in how they meet federal mandates governing detention of juveniles with adults This is the second in a three-part series on this issue; this part discusses the time limits…
This article focuses on juvenile detention and its alternatives in Philadelphia. Largely as a result of a federal class-action lawsuit about overcrowding in the city’s only secure juvenile detention center, city leaders moved to reform…
This issue of Ohio Bulletin summarizes requirements to develop strategic plans for a continuum of voluntary services to unruly and truant youth, offers examples from two counties, and describes programs of four Ohio juvenile courts…
This publication guides Ohio juvenile courts in making changes in their handling of cases in order to comply with the mandates of the Federal Title IV-E Foster Care program. Download Publication
This brief report highlights state laws permitting or prohibiting the detention of juveniles in adult facilities when they are transferred to criminal court. Download Publication
This brief report highlights state variations in laws allowing or requiring juveniles to be detained before trial in adult facilities if they pose harm to themselves or others. Download Publication
This article presents an editorial analysis of the Texas parental notification law regarding taking a juvenile into custody. Download Publication
This article briefly reviews variations in how states apply their constitutional open court’s provisions to juvenile court matters. Download Publication
This report, updated for 2003, briefly summarizes current state provisions governing the application of Megan’s Law to juveniles and the age at which states require or permit juveniles to be registered as sex offenders. Download…
This brief report highlights state variations in how they meet federal mandates governing detention of juveniles with adults This is the first in a three-part series on this issue; this part covers circumstances under which…
This report summarizes the main points that emerge from the analysis of various databases for 2001, including three- and thirteen-year trends in disproportionate minority contact (DMC). Download Publication
A comprehensive look at state laws authorizing the criminal prosecution and sentencing of juveniles. It updates a 1998 work by NCJJ, reflecting all changes in state statutes made through the 2002 legislative sessions, and also…