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All posts tagged "Juvenile Justice"
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Research
Research of Note for May 2006
Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National ReportU.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention/National Center for Juvenile JusticeAvailable at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/nr2006/index.html ...
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Boot Camps Get Dismissed
Last month, authorities exhumed the body of a 14-year-old boy who had died in a Florida juvenile boot camp, conducted an autopsy,...
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Report Roundup for April 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Detention Centers:
Staunton, Va. — When Superintendent Tim Smith goes to work every day at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Detention Center here, the layout...
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Report Roundup for March 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Report Roundup for February 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Report Roundup from December 2005 – January 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
When Youth Job Training is Job 1
Chances are, if you’re not old enough to vote, you’re not pulling in a paycheck. Today’s teens face the most dismal job...
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News
YAPing it Up
Lebanon, Pa. Alan McLoughlin spends much of his week laboring in his family’s construction business, doing what’s commonly considered tiring work. He...
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Report Roundup of November 2005
Child Welfare Protecting Children in Foster Care: Why Proposed Medicaid Cuts Harm Our Nation’s Most Vulnerable ChildrenCasey Family Programs At least $10...
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Report Roundup from October 2005
Education2005 ACT ScoresAmerican College Testing Program Hundreds of thousands of 2005 high school graduates will begin college or work academically unprepared and...
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Report Roundup of September 2005
Education The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Transitions and the Role of Supportive Relationships, 2005MetLife This year’s annual survey focuses on...
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Report Roundup for May 2005
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Poop n’ Scoop
The abysmal state of knowledge development and its dissemination in youth work is captured by two items among the avalanche of newsletters,...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Statistical Bigotry
From the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month abolishing capital punishment for juveniles, to the latest media crusade to banish 16-year-old drivers,...
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Behind the Death Penalty Ban
For the past several years, Dr. David Fassler has enjoyed putting his plastic brain through x-ray machines at airports. At an airport...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Juvenile Drug Courts
It’s been 10 years since the nation’s fledgling juvenile drug courts began receiving federal funds to rehabilitate teen drug abusers. But despite...
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A Critic Joins the System
After 20 years of slugging it out with police, prosecutors and bureaucrats, juvenile justice reformer Vincent Schiraldi has joined their ranks. “If...
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Death Penalty
During oral arguments before the Supreme Court last month over whether the execution of juveniles is unconstitutional, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy offered...
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U.S. Justice Department Cuffs Juvenile Corrections
Cheltenham, Md.—It’s a hot summer Friday afternoon at Maryland’s aging Cheltenham Youth Facility – one of an increasing number of juvenile corrections...
