To the Editor: “Don’t Treat Young Adults as Teenagers,” by Laurence Steinberg, Thomas Grisso, Elizabeth S. Scott and Richard
Category: Jeffrey Butts
Testimony to the New York City Council
Reducing delinquency and youth violence among justice-involved young people is a complicated business. Public safety is best protected when youth justice providers work with young people in their own communities, and when the efforts of courts and children’s services are coordinated with prevention agencies, schools, social services, neighborhood organizations, and faith-based groups.
Reclaiming Futures and Organizing Justice for Drug-Using Youth
Reclaiming Futures assumes that positive youth outcomes are achieved when service delivery systems are closely coordinated and provide just the right amount of individualized help with the least possible amount of coercion.
Tallahassee Democrat
Data does not support state attorneys’ argument by Jeffrey Butts January 21, 2016 … No credible study ever located the
Gainesville Sun
Prosecutorial power unrelated to drop in crime By Jeffrey Butts Special to The Sun … State Attorney offices in Leon County
Cursing the Darkness
Jeffrey A. Butts October 18, 2015 Researching the effectiveness of social policies is like pointing a flashlight inside a