U.S. Department of Justice

Advances in Juvenile Justice Reform: 2009-2011

Publication year: 2012 | Cataloged on: Jan. 14, 2013

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Thumbnail preview ANNOTATION: This 'document includes a wide array of youth justice reforms from across the country: significant new laws, administrative rule and practice changes, positive court decisions, and promising commissions and studies'. Reforms are organized according to these issue areas: Adjudication and Sentencing; Alternatives to Detention and Youth Prisons; Competency; Conditions of Confinement; Confidentiality and Expungement; Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC); Facility Closures and Downsizing; Gangs; Girls in the System; Immigrant Youth in the System; International Standards; Interrogations and Confessions; Juvenile Defense and Court Process; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth in the System; Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Organizational and Large-Scale Change; Probation, Parole, and Reentry; School-to-Prison Pipeline; Screening and Assessment; Sex Offender Laws and Registries; Sexual Exploitation of Youth; Status Offenses; Youth in the Adult System; and Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems. These reforms are also organized according to state.
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