This break-out session discusses best practices and successful programs that provide support services to students who have found themselves in either the juvenile justice system or working with loc
This report provides the first-ever comprehensive look at how the nation treats young children who commit serious crimes, analyzes the available data with regard to the transfer of young children t
This policy brief examines the most recent information available about Latino youth in the justice system, with a particular focus on youth tried as adults.
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Policy Research Associates, Inc.
This paper reports on the results of a survey that was conducted of promising programs that provide mental health services to youth involved in the juvenile justice system, to find out how these pr
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
This paper explores some of the new issues that have emerged in the juvenille justice field as a result of widespread mental health screening adopted by most states.
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the prevalence and impact of trauma and traumatic stress among youth in the juvenile justice system and to describe emerging responses for identifying and tr
In this policy brief, the authors draw on articles in a recently released volume of The Future of Children devoted to juvenile justice to examine the problem of youth confinement in correctional fa
This report explores the dramatic changes in the law's conception of young offenders between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.
