One of the key issues to be resolved in reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) will be what to do with the Valid Court Order exception that now exists that has permitted states to remain in compliance even though they are placing status offenders in secure facilities alongside delinquent youth. A...
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency released a critique in February of this year that should be required reading for professionals thinking about the "what" and "how" of using various assessment tools to measure risks, needs, criminogenic needs, risk of recidivism, and more. A Question of Evidence: A Critique of Risk...
On September 23rd, Ohio Attorney General and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Ohio became the first state to achieve substantial compliance with Title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. Title I, known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), requires registration and...
The Wisconsin Budget Project has analyzed new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau on state and local spending and revenue. The Census Bureau figures reveal that Wisconsin has fallen to 25th among the states in total state and local spending per capita, down from 14th highest in 2000. On total state and local taxes per person, Wisconsin...
Remember that studies have indicated that youth, particularly early teens, are subject to admitting to things they did not do. In some particularly aggregious cases, the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, has been able to demonstrate that false confessions have led to wrongful convictions with particularly dire results for the...
The Girls Study Group, through OJJDP, has recently completed an analysis of a wide range of delinquency and mental health assessment tools to determine if they have been validated for use with girls. Certainly one of the key issues in working with girls in the juvenile justice system has been that all too often approaches, including...
Newly released data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) show that Wisconsin’s overall poverty rate declined slightly from 10.8% in 2007 to 10.4% in 2007. The child poverty rate dropped from 14.4% in 2007 to 13.3% in 2008. However, these figures do not capture the bulk of the impact of the recession, as evidenced by...
Wraparound Milwaukee has been selected as a recipient of the Harvard University-Kennedy School of Government award for Best Innovation in American Government Award. Wraparound Milwaukee's collaborative systems of care and funding have been hugely successful in serving families of children with serious emotional disturbance in the...
If you've never checked out the Future of Children journals, you should. Start with their most recent volume on Preventing Child Maltreatment. With up-to-date research on best practices, this volume covers prevention through intervention and serves as an excellent overview of critical issues facing child protective service professionals...
Yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau released a batch of data from the American Community Survey (ACS), an annual survey of some 3 million households nationwide. The release includes data on health insurance coverage (for the first time), household income, and housing costs for 2008. Wisconsin remains a national leader in making health...
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