Clik here to view.
Kids and Drugs: A New Theory
NEW YORK — Author and reporter Maia Szalavitz, who writes about substance use and related issues recently spoke with Youth Today and JJIE about her experience and her newest book: “Unbroken Brain: A...
View ArticleJuvenile Justice Big Data in the Era of Big Policing
WASHINGTON — Big data has already come to big city policing. The technology may be new, but some juvenile justice advocates worry that it may already be compromised by an age-old tech problem: Garbage...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Opinion: Analysts Propose Racial Equity in Youth Probation
In 2018, about 6 out of 10 youth found guilty of an offense – more than 130,000 young people nationally — were placed on probation. Black youth have continued to be overrepresented among youth on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Covid-19 Analysis: Record High of Blacks, Low of Whites in Juvenile Facilities
The tally of Black youth detained in juvenile facilities during the Covid-19 pandemic reached a record high last January, while the same count for white youth was the second lowest since the Annie E....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Opinion: Lawyers for Juveniles Trained in Racial Justice Trials
What replays in my mind is the judge who proclaimed that my then 16-year-old Black client was destined to “spend the rest of his natural life in prison” because he’d appeared before that judge one too...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Opinion: A Case for Better Funding of California’s Community Alternatives to...
Supporters of the juvenile justice status quo wrongly claim that community-based organizations are not yet strong enough to serve all youth who may otherwise cycle through juvenile courts, detention...
View ArticleJAMA: Almost 71% of adult California gun owners living with youth said...
More than two-thirds of 2,558 Californians living in homes with children or teens who owned firearms and more than half who did not own guns but resided with minors in homes with guns said they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Amid nationwide debate about police in schools, a few districts recently...
For Madeline Borrelli, a special education teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y., having NYPD-trained law enforcement officers in schools is a cut-and-dry issue: “School safety agents,” she said, using their...
View ArticleNew law gives juvenile offenders in Washington state same rights to a lawyer...
Defendants who are 18 years old and younger will have the same access to legal counsel as adults in Washington, starting next January. That new law trails another juvenile justice reform, which took...
View ArticleWhen students bring guns to North Carolina schools
West Charlotte High School had let out only minutes earlier when, hearing gunfire, school officials ordered an immediate lockdown and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers swarmed the...
View Article
