Youth advocates gathered in WashingtonD.C. on December 5th to rally for more investments in delinquency prevention and treating youth appropriately in the justice system.  Vicky’s simple message on behalf of her son Kirk is that children should not be treated as adults – subject to confinement as adults, subject to the lifelong negative...

A recent study by the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics, titled Criminal Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth:  A National Longitudinal Study, found that nonheterosexual youth were disproportionately represented in police contacts, school expulsions, juvenile arrests and convictions, and adult conviction.  The research...

Effective July 1, 2010 a youth under age 18 whose case has been filed in/waived into adult court and is ordered to be held in secure custody must be held in a juvenile detention or shelter facilities rather than an adult jail until such time as they are convicted as an adult. There are provisions that permit the court to order the youth...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention recently posted a list of the 2010 awards, covering the formula grants, discretionary grants, and earmarks.  Some of you may recall the controversy surrounding grant awards during the last administration, and this public posting is a welcome step toward increasing the...

The Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice just released its 2010 Annual Report that includes a number of recommendations consistent with the goals of reauthorizing JJDPA – and go even further to include that financial incentives should be provided to states to ensure that the age of adult court jurisdiction be set at age 18 in...