This brief report offers a 2001 update on state variation in handling judicial waiver to criminal court, the oldest and most common statutory procedure whereby a juvenile court may or must waive its jurisdiction over…
This brief report highlights state variations in the use of the interested adult test (sometimes called the concerned adult test, the friendly adult test or the per se rule) to decide whether or not a…
This document reports on EPIC-SCAN (Educating Physicians in Their Communities – Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect), a program that trains Pennsylvania’s primary care providers to recognize signs of maltreatment in their patients and to respond…
This report discusses a Pennsylvania program to address the needs of traumatized girls in the juvenile justice system. Funded by the state’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency and developed by volunteers, the PTSD Project aims…
This brief report, updated for 2001, highlights state variations in the use of the direct file, prosecutor discretion and prosecutorial waiver, procedures used to remove juvenile offenders from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to…
This column from ‘Hunter of Delinquency’ discusses a study of family court jurisdiction and the overlap of family members involved in related cases in criminal court, prepared by the National Center for Juvenile Justice and…
‘Once an Adult/Always an Adult’ provisions say that if a juvenile’s delinquency proceeding originated in or was transferred to criminal court then he or she is forever excluded from juvenile court jurisdiction. This brief report…
This brief report highlights state differences in laws governing the minimum age for capital punishment, updated as of 2002. ( In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned laws that imposed capital punishment for offenses committed…
This brief report highlights state variations in the application of the totality of the circumstances test to decide whether or not a juvenile has validly waived his or her Miranda rights to representation by counsel…
This brief report, updated for 2002, highlights state variations in statutes and/or court rules that permit or require juvenile delinquency hearings to be open to the general public. Download Publication
This article discusses philosophical and operational differences between the juvenile justice and mental health establishments. Download Publication
A widely influential desk reference and training resource, the Desktop Guide was originally issued more than a decade ago. Distributed to juvenile probation departments in virtually every county in America, it has served the field…