No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 13, 2011
ANNOTATION: The critical need for juvenile corrections reform is explained. This report should be read by anyone interested in issues surrounding juveniles involved in the criminal justice system. Sections of this publication clarifies: what is wrong with juvenile corrections facilities in the U.S.—dangerous, ineffective, unnecessary, obsolete, wasteful, and inadequate; whether it is safe to reduce the number of juveniles confined; how states should go about reforming juvenile corrections—six priorities; and embracing better policies, programs, and practices in juvenile corrections. “The time has come for states to embrace a fundamentally different orientation to treating adolescent offenders—an approach grounded in evidence that promises to be far more humane, cost-effective, and protective of public safety than our time-worn and counterproductive reliance on juvenile incarceration” (p. 4).
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