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Juvenile Justice Links
Join the Juvenile Justice Policy Network Listserv
The Juvenile Justice Policy Network Listserv is a valuable tool for all advocates involved in these efforts or who want to get more involved in this campaign. The listserv will provide you with the latest news and information on juvenile justice, sending out regular updates on policy developments in juvenile justice and delinquency prevention. To join the listserv simply send an email message to listserv@lists.cwla.org. In the body of the message write, subscribe jjpolnet your name.
 Día de la Juventud
A Day Dedicated to Latino Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
- Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice
Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice, a report by Richard Mendel, published by the American Youth Policy Forum, provides compelling evidence that greater success against adolescent crime is both within reach and available at a smaller cost.
- American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Center
Through training, technical assistance, model program design, information and advocacy, the Center maintains the ABA's presence in the juvenile justice community. The Center responds to a vast assortment of juvenile justice issues, and provides leadership to judges, practitioners, bar associations, youth workers, correctional agency staff, policymakers and the like.
- Building Blocks for Youth
An alliance of children's advocates, researchers, law enforcement professionals and community organizers that seeks to protect minority youth in the justice system and promote rational and effective justice policies.
- The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
A private non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration as a solution to social problems.
- Children's Defense Fund
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
- The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act (Section 206) establishes the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as an independent body within the Executive branch of the Federal Government. The Council's primary functions are to coordinate all Federal juvenile delinquency prevention programs, all Federal programs and activities that detain or care for unaccompanied juveniles, and all Federal programs relating to missing and exploited children.
- HANDSNET
HandsNet has worked to make online collaboration and information sharing a reality for the human services community. Handsnet empowers organizations to effectively integrate new online strategies, strengthening their program and policy work on behalf of people in need.
- Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse
The Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse is sponsored by the Juvenile Justice Role Model Development Project, at Florida State University and Florida A & M University. Web site contains juvenile justice information, programs for at-risk youth, and employment opportunities within this field.
- Juvenile Law Center
A non-profit, public interest law firm which advances the rights of children involved with public agencies by working for the reform and coordination of the child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and public health care systems.
- National Center for Juvenile Justice
NCJJ is dedicated to improving the quality of justice for children and families. NCJJ's primary means of accomplishing this mission is by conducting research and providing objective, factual information that is utilized to increase the juvenile and family justice systems' effectiveness.
- The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse, Neglect and Welfare Information
The Clearinghouse is a national resource for professionals seeking information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect and related child welfare issues.
- The National Council on Crime and Delinquency
A nonprofit organization that conducts research, promotes reform initiatives, and seeks to work with individuals, public and private organizations and the media to prevent and reduce crime and delinquency.
- National Resource Center for Youth Services
NRCYS has become a resource place for human-services professionals - for help with timely information, training, technical assistance, conferences, books, and curricula.
- The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The OJJDP Web site is designed to provide information and resources on both general areas of interest about juvenile justice and delinquency including conferences, funding opportunities, and new publications and the comprehensive strategy as a framework for communities to combat youth crime.
- SEARCH, Inc.
Search, Inc, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, is a nonprofit membership organization created by and for the states, which is dedicated to improving the criminal justice system through the effective application of information and identification technology.
- University of Colorado Center for the Study and Prevention Of Violence
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) was founded in 1992 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to provide informed assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent violence. Since that time, our mission has expanded to encompass violence across the life course.
- The Youth Law Center
Works toward systemic reform of the juvenile justice system to make it more responsive and effective in providing humane treatment and meaningful rehabilitation to young offenders.
Recently Released Reports
- And Justice for Some
This report documents a juvenile justice system that is "separate but unequal" and reveals sharp racial disparities. It advocates for a nationwide effort to identify the causes of this differential treatment of minority youth and a concerted campaign to provide a fair and equal justice system for our youth.
- The Color of Justice
This study is the first analysis of racial and ethnic disparity in the transfer of youths to adult court and sentencing to CYA facilities in California. Like previous studies on racial disparity in the criminal justice system, this study reveals imbalances that are stark and vast.
- Youth Crime/Adult Time: Is Justice Served?
This report takes an in-depth look at the prosecution of minority youth in criminal court and raises serious questions about the fairness and appropriateness of prosecuting youth in the adult criminal justice system.
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