Youth Justice

A New, Interactive Tool to Track Juvenile Justice Practices

A recently released website is an exciting and creative tool for tracking some basics about juvenile justice across states. The Juvenile Justice GPS - which stands for Geography, Policy, Practice, and Statistics - brings together data previously available in annual publications across a variety of practice areas and puts them all in one...

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Sex Trafficking and Child Exploitation – A Quick Overview

There is an awareness of the increasing frequency of child sexual exploitation and sex trafficking and an increasing recognition that our systems are not as well-prepared as we need to be to respond to these situations. In a short brief, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors in Wisconsin, we've outlined just some basics about the...

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Trauma and Status Offenders – First, do no harm!

As we’ve highlighted before, youth who commit status offenses, behaviors prohibited only by age, have better long-term outcomes when they are kept in their communities and receive appropriate services and support.  Youth who run away, skip school, or self-medicate with alcohol are often responding to larger issues at home or in their...

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