A Road Map for Juvenile Justice Reform
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 28, 2010
ANNOTATION: Individuals interested in or advocating for changes to the juvenile justice system need to read this publication. “There is now an increasingly clear route for moving juvenile justice away from counterproductive, dangerous, wasteful, but still commonplace, practices and toward a more effective, efficient, and just approach to addressing adolescent crime” (p. 3). Sections of this essay are: a noble idea, unrealized; a compelling critique; and a road map for reform—implement developmentally appropriate policies and interventions, reduce reliance on secure confinement, increase reliance on effective community-based services, ensure healthy, constructive conditions of confinement, strengthen and empower families to help youth succeed, keep youth out of the system, and reduce racial disparities.
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