Other
Next Page »Butts, Jeffrey A. (2012). Juvenile Justice Q & A. New York, NY: Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. City University of New York. Jeffrey Butts answers key questions about juvenile justice, including “what exactly is juvenile justice?”… “what does it mean when we read statistics about youth in ‘the system’?” … and “what services should be high priorities for prevention and early intervention?”
Butts, Jeffrey A., Kathleen Tomberg, Douglas Evans, Rhoda Ramdeen, Caterina Roman, and Caitlin Taylor (2012). Interim Report 1: National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention. New York, NY: Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. The National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention is designed to promote greater coordination and effectiveness in violence prevention efforts across community and organizational systems, including law enforcement, juvenile and criminal courts, schools, social services, mental health, [ ... click title to read more...]
Preliminary figures from the FBI indicate that the number of reported violent crimes nationwide fell 6.4 percent for the first 6 months of 2011 when compared with the same time in 2010. Violent crimes include murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The data presented below show varying trends for the six cities participating in the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention: Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and Memphis, as well as Salinas and San Jose, California. All data represent preliminary reports [ ... click title to read more...]
Reclaiming Futures (2012). Blog: News & Information. Portland, OR: Reclaiming Futures, Portland State University. When casual readers of the news media search for stories about juvenile crime and justice today, they find a lot of good news. Other than the perennial media coverage of individual crimes and victimization, an online search about juvenile justice today generates dozens of stories about states uncovering abuses in their youth corrections systems, reducing their rates of juvenile incarceration and increasing their reliance on community-based programs [ ... click title to read more...]
Next Page »