The U.S. juvenile arrest rate for homicide rate grew 4 percent between 2014 and 2015 but remained 70 percent lower than the 1990s peak. Continue reading Total Youth Arrests for Violent Crime Still Falling Nationwide
The diverse mix of policies and practices in the juvenile justice system raises questions about its future. Continue reading The Juvenile Justice Policy Landscape
Juvenile justice knowledge is not an established canon; it is organic and ever-changing. Researchers do not already know everything there is to know about reducing recidivism and keeping youth out of the justice system. Continue reading Critical Diversion
Discussion at a community roundtable organized by the National Academies of Sciences. Jeffrey Butts and Daniel Webster responded to audience questions following the discussion. Read more about the products of the evaluation. Continue reading Evaluating the Cure Violence Model in New York City
This study suggests that the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention provides meaningful assistance to cities. The organizational networks involved in the National Forum appear to be moving in positive directions and the individuals involved in those networks report high levels of confidence that they are making a difference. Continue reading Durable Collaborations
To the Editor: “Don’t Treat Young Adults as Teenagers,” by Laurence Steinberg, Thomas Grisso, Elizabeth S. Scott and Richard J. Bonnie (Sunday Review, May 1), opposes a positive trend in justice policy. The writers — all accomplished scholars — support the 19th-century idea that legal distinctions between children and adults may be determined using a single, magic birthday. They prefer to define adulthood at … Continue reading Criminal Justice and the Young
