Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Page

Truancy and street violence are linked, according to new study

New!! California Youth Authority Problems Continue:  Advocates urge a judge to appoint a receiver to take over a system they say remains broken despite long-standing promises to fix it.

New!! An interesting "letter to the editor":  Spare the book, spoil the child

How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness

US Among Harshest for Sentencing Children

States rethink charging kids as adults

Man struggles to rebuild life after TYC ordeal

California Juvenile Justice Reform and SB 81- testimony of Dan Macallair

Latest Juvenile Court Statistics report: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/218587.pdf

A small Louisiana town near Jena struggles with this question: Education versus Incarceration

Girl alleges sex abuse in prison

‘No Child’ law feeds dropout rate

Foster Children at Risk, and an Opportunity Lost

Abuses reported in Mississippi training schools - report calls them "A Mississippi Gulag."  Go to this web site: http://www.parentsunitedtogether.com/page78.html

Adolescents, Neighborhoods, and Violence: Recent Findings From the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Click on this web site for full report and more: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/217397.htm   Note that this study lends empirical support for the "Chicago School" perspective, especially that of "concentric zones" among other theoretical perspectives.

New!!  Children's Defense Fund Study America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline^SM  Click on the following web site: http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=c2pp_report2007#report

Editorial in the New York Times: Juvenile Injustice

Updated figures on race and detention: Juvenile Detention in San Francisco

Same story, different century:  Study finds youth facility 'recipe for tragedy'

Latest arrest data on juveniles (2004) reveals new low in juvenile crime - go to this web site: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=236114

U.S. & Britain fare poorly in children survey